WEDA’s next webinar – Innovations in Dredging – will take place on Friday, February 26, 2021, from 11 AM to noon EST. The Innovations in Dredging Webinar will feature two presentations by Aiden Horan, the Vice President Of Engineering & Innovation, J. Cashman, Inc., and Xiuhan Chen, the Vice Presid
After being washed ashore by one of the biggest typhoons in Indian history, Royal IHC has successfully recommissioned the cutter suction dredger Shanti Sagar X of Adani Group. Adani Group is a diversified organization in India with combined revenue of $15 Bn and market cap of $40 billion (as on 28th
Nonius Engineering Company is joining the list of sponsors for the annual “Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging” congress in Moscow. According to the organizers, maritime media group PortNews, Nonius will support the 4th international congress that is taking place at the Chamber of Commerce
All construction work for the Bethioua Port Mining Terminal Project in Algeria was successfully completed by China Communications Construction Company’s subsidiary CHEC recently. The facility is built as an iron ore undocking terminal, the company said. With a 360m long berth, it will allow vessels
The Port of Corpus Christi has just released this beautiful video about their channel improvement project. The Port of Corpus Christi is the third most profitable port in the United States and is the second-largest export gateway of crude oil. The channel itself is 36-miles long, with 30+ ship berth
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) today announced the latest update regarding the F. Dharanboodhoo Harbor development program. According to MTCC, work on the design and build of F. Dharanboodhoo Harbor is well underway, with an overall 50% project progress so far. The installation w
DEME Group has just released this amazing photo of their new cutter suction dredger Spartacus, making her grand entrance and turning the Rotterdam skyline ‘DEME green’. The most powerful cutter suction dredger in the world, the Spartacus has been built by Royal IHC, and is pictured right in the hear
Foyle and Marine Dredging Ltd last week took delivery of a Rammer 5011E, Rock Hammer, for use on the dredgers Dinopotes and Aoibheann. This state of the art rock hammer offers the latest in the rock breaking technology with innovative features that prevent damage to the hammer and loss of production
In 2020 Rohde Nielsen A/S started working on the contract of beach nourishment of the West Coast of Jutland, Denmark. According to the company, this work is planned to extend over the 2020-2024. The scheme consisted of three separate projects, two of them being beach nourishment with sinkerlines whi
ML (UK) Dredging Ltd crew is getting ready for their next assignment, the maintenance dredging of Rudmore Channel. According to the Queen’s Harbour Master Portsmouth, this routine maintenance dredging project will take place in the Rudmore Channel located in the north east of Fountain Lake within Po
The Gold Coast Waterways Authority is investing $6.3 million in the Seaway and North and South Channels dredging project. According to GCWA, this dredging project will improve safety for small and medium-sized vessels, crossing the Gold Coast Seaway Bar. Removal of shoals in the North Channel and So
Mississippi Valley Division Commander Maj. Gen. Diana Holland will be in Arcadia, Wisconsin, Feb. 9 to celebrate the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partnership with this city. The Corps’ St. Paul District, and the city of Arcadia signed a cost sharing agreement to construct a flood risk management pro
Dredging and pond improvement project in Downers Grove (IL) is now nearly complete, reports the V3 Companies. The Downers Grove Park District in partnership with the Village administered this project for sediment removal at Prince Pond to achieve increased water depth for improved water quality. V3’
In just under a month after starting, Weeks Marine has completed 1/3 of the Morehead City dredging & beach nourishment works. So far, the company had dredged, pumped, and graded sand starting just east of the Ft. Macon Bath House Access westward to the Henderson Boulevard. From a purely geographic s
