The Port of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, has finished penning its lease agreement with DP World to expand the city’s Duke Point terminal. The project will include an extension of the existing berth from 182 meters to 325 meters and the construction of a new truck gate, warehouse and administra
The Baker-Polito Administration has announced more than $3.8 million in Seaport Economic Council Grants to support nine projects in eight communities. These grants will help advance the Seaport Economic Council’s mission of providing support for working waterfronts, local tourism, coastal resilience
Carteret County, North Carolina, has just released the latest update on their Florence Renourishment Project – PHASE III (2021). Great Lakes Dredge & Dock’s hopper dredge, the Liberty Island arrived this Monday but has to undergo a repair (welding) while anchored at one of the Morehead City Port ber
J.E. McAmis recently released these beautiful photos from their stones placement project at Lake Worth Inlet in Palm Beach County, FL. According to the company, this work is unique as all stones will be placed from a barge as opposed to from the top of the jetty. The project is being performed for t
The Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has officially started the R. Dhuvaafaru land reclamation and shore protection project. Under the contract, a land area of 22 hectares will be reclaimed during this $9.3 million job. According to MTCC, the scheme is set to be completed with 445 d
The Environment Agency has presented a report of the trial tests of a new approach to beach replenishment at Poole Bay. The report revealed results of a year-long programme of fieldwork to monitor the behaviour of sand deposited in the nearshore zone off Canford Cliffs in Poole Bay. The technique of
Mordraga LLC has announced its decision to support the 4th International Congress “Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging” as one of the event sponsors. The event organized by maritime industry media group PortNews will be held in Moscow on 10-11 March 2021. The congress will include the 8th
Continental Heavy Civil Corporation has won a $37,348,064 construction contract for the Broward County Segment III beach renourishment project. According to the Army Corps, Broward County Segment III Shore Protection Project includes placing sand on the beaches of Dr. Von D. Mitzel-Eula Johnson Stat
Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (ORN) yesterday reported net income of $3.7 million ($0.12 diluted earnings per share) for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2020. According to Mark Stauffer, Orion’s Chief Executive Officer, the company delivered strong growth in profitability and cash flow for the fu
Tuolumne Utilities District has just announced that the Phoenix Lake Preservation and Restoration project is nearing completion. Last summer, over 160,000 cubic yards of sediment were removed from the reservoir. If that volume of sediment were to be placed on a football field, it would reach a heigh
NCCOS scientists have released the results of a three-year monitoring effort designed to evaluate the success of recent restoration efforts involving the use of dredged sediments to create intertidal habitat at Mordecai Island, New Jersey. The report documents implications of the restoration activit
The state-run Cochin Shipyard has announced a plan to build a high capacity dredger for Dredging Corporation of India (DCI), worth as much as ₹800 crore ($110 million), with technology and design support from Royal IHC. The new dredger will have a hopper capacity of 12,000 cubic meters. This TSHD is
MDL Marinas has successfully completed dredging at their Sparkes and Northney marinas in Chichester, the culmination of the £400K 2020/21 winter dredging program. “This year we dredged enough silt and mud from our marinas to fill ten Olympic sized swimming pools, weighing 33,000 tons and the equival
The San Rafael Public Works Department, USACE and Audubon Society staff met recently with the San Francisco Bay Restoration Regulatory Integration Team (BRRIT) to discuss the Tiscornia Marsh Restoration Project. During the meeting, they talked about the ways how to address the challenges to getting
