The Board of WEDA’s (Western Dredging Association) Eastern Chapter recently announced that their Fall 2021 conference will be held in-person at the Historic Francis Marion Hotel in downtown Charleston, SC from Wednesday, October 13, 2021, through Friday, October 15, 2021. According to the Board, the
Everything is ready for the opening of the first container terminal in the US since 2009, the South Carolina Ports’ Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal (HLT). “This project is more than 20 years in the making, and we look forward to offering the same reliable service and additional capacity to our customers
In a continuing project designed to open up the Petaluma River as a viable recreational and commercial waterway, Pacific Dredge and Construction LLC performed a second substantial dredging job commissioned by the United States Corps of Engineers. The crews used powerful mechanical clamshell dredging
DP World announced today that Southampton, Britain’s second largest container terminal, will benefit from a major programme of investment in 2021. According to the company, the programme is designed to take the Southampton terminal up to the next level as a premier international freight and logistic
FSUE Rosmorport’s dredging fleet started maintenance dredging operations on the Volga-Caspian Sea Shipping Canal (VKMSK) earlier this week. The volume of dredging works at VKMSK planned for 2021 is 3.94 million cubic meters of material. According to Rosmorport, the main goal of these dredging works
Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCIL) recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of the company’s founding at its Head Office in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The India’s premier dredging company was incorporated on March 29, 1976, and since then it has been consistently catering to the dredgi
IADC – International Association of Dredging Companies will host a webinar next month on the importance of managing financial risks in a dredging project. In this webinar – set for May 4 – the topic of managing financial risks will be linked to the Brisbane Airport dredging and reclamation project.
A ceremony was held today at Muli, Meemu Atoll, to mark the commencement of physical works for the Meemu Airport Development Project, Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) reports. This capital development project was awarded to MTCC on February 28, 2021. The works involve: land reclamat
Islamorada, Village of Islands, has just released this beautiful video about their ongoing Lower Matecumbe dredging project. “This is post-hurricane Irma sediment removal. I know we’re almost four years out from Irma, but this is the final stages of a hurricane, debris and sediment removal that has
The Naval Base Point Loma (NBPL) is submitting an Application for Permit for the Piers 5000 and 5002 Inner Berths Dredging Project at NBPL. The dredging project is located in the northern part of San Diego Bay at the naval Pier 5000 and 5002 facilities near the USACE’s federal channel within the Cit
Starting today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group (LA TIG) will jointly conduct three virtual public meetings about the proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project. The meetings will allow participants to learn more about the proposed Mid-Barataria pro
Louisiana Governor, John Bel Edwards, joined the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and state and local officials yesterday in touring construction activities on Trinity-East Island, one of three barrier islands being restored in the Terrebonne Basin. The Terrebonne Basin
A 42-year-old security guard of a stranded dredger was found dead this morning under mysterious circumstances in the sea at Guddekopala, Mangalore, the Indian state of Karnataka. The deceased is identified as Shankar, a local resident. Mercator Limited, the vessel’s owner, had deployed private secur
Duluth’s Mayor Emily Larson sent a letter last month to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requesting a Section 111 Study on Park Point. A Section 111 Study comes from the 1968 River and Harbor Act. The Act authorizes the Corps of Engineers, in this case, the Detroit District, to investigate potential
