The energy transition brings many uncertainties in the development of sustainable dredging vessels and equipment. At the CEDA/KNVTS meeting in Rotterdam last week, Bernardete Castro, Director Sustainability at Royal IHC, showed how Royal IHC is helping its customers to better manage this uncertainty
Land & Water is in the process of completing the largest winter dredge of Gloucester Dock. The firm, which carries out work at the dock and on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal each year as part of an ongoing framework with the Canal & River Trust, will be carrying out backhoe dredging to remove appr
Western Dredging Association (WEDA) will next Friday, April 28, 2023, at 1:30 PM EST host their next webinar titled “4 Project Management Strategies That Will Impact Your Projects Today”. This webinar aims to provide project management strategies one can use today to improve the current and future p
Over the past five weeks, Jan De Nul dredged as much as 500,000 m³ of sand to elevate the beach of Knokke-Heist on behalf of Agentschap Maritieme Dienstverlening en Kust (MDK). JDN’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Pedro Álvares Cabral – sailing on 100% second-generation biofuel – carried out
Yesterday was a big first step in a long journey to make the Port of Gulfport more efficient and economically viable. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed an agreement with the Port of Gulfport to begin a years-long environmental and economic impact study into dredging the shipping channel into t
Attorney General William Tong yesterday applauded a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to hear an appeal in Rosado v. Pruitt, finally ending years of litigation over the lawful selection of the Eastern Long Island Sound Disposal Site for dredged materials. Connecticut intervened in the case
Ald Eddie Andrews, Cape Town’s Deputy Mayor & MMC, Spatial Planning and Environment, has just released a statement on spatial planning budget, prioritising health of vleis, coastline, resilience to climate change. In November last year, at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Partie
The Province of British Columbia is helping improve access to Steveston Harbour by supporting dredging that will maintain the Cannery Channel approach to the harbour, the largest commercial fishing harbour in Canada. “Reliable harbour access is vital for fishers and Steveston’s rich community of mar
Town of Duck has just released the latest update on their beach nourishment project. According to the announcement, Weeks Marine has continued to move north from the Dianne Street subline since beach nourishment construction began last week, with the active construction zone between Port Trinitie an
Around 88 percent of dredging work to expand and deepen the southern sector of the Suez Canal has been completed, said Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie. The Chairman revealed this information yesterday, after his inspection tour. According to Rabie, the dredging operations are
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has just released the latest update on the Gulhi Land Reclamation and Shore Protection Project. According to MTCC, the physical works for this very important development program are already started. Also, the seabed preparation is currently ongoing.
Building up the sand stockpile has been the Opotiki Harbour Development teams main focus this week. This photo shows excavators on the eastern beach, between the breakwaters and in the river, all loading up trucks to add to the stockpile. The Opotiki Harbour Development Project will provide access f
rexDronieTV has just released the latest photo update from the largest land reclamation project in Boskalis’ history – the New Manila International Airport (NMIA). This will be the Philippines’ largest and most sophisticated airport and the dredging works are moving ahead according to schedule. Unde
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has just released the latest update on the Adh. Dhigurah Harbor Development Project. According to MTCC, dredging operations are ongoing at the new harbor basin. Scope of works will include: The value of the project is MVR 50.02 million ($3.2 million)
