Conwy County Borough Council said that the next phase of coastal defence work will begin this summer, following further funding from Welsh Government. The current work, which began in May 2021, has seen a 370m long rock barricade built on the beach to protect the Victorian seawall from severe storms
Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have announced that the United States Coast Guard awarded a $30 million federal contract to expand Coast Guard shore-side facilities at East Tongue Point in Astoria. This will enable the facility to accommodate the home porting of Fast Response Cutters (FRC
Ohio Congressman Dave Joyce has submitted a request to allocate nearly $2.8 million for Fairport Harbor dredging in the draft of a fiscal year 2023 funding bill. The official last week announced that he placed funding requests totaling $23 million for 15 Northeast Ohio projects into fiscal year 2023
The USACE Buffalo District awarded a $618,332 contract to Michigan-based, Dean Marine & Excavating, Inc., July 6, 2022, to conduct dredging of the federal navigation channel in Dunkirk Harbor. “This contract award facilitates the necessary dredging and ensures Dunkirk Harbor remains accessible to al
A ribbon cutting ceremony for the modernized Pier 2 at Quonset’s Port of Davisville took place earlier this week. Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee joined the Quonset Development Corporation and state and local officials at the event Tuesday morning. According to Governor McKee, the $83.1 million expa
Rohde Nielsen has just released these amazing photos from the Fremantle Port Beach Sand Nourishment Program, Australia. The project will combat coastal erosion by depositing thousands of cubic metres of sand at Fremantle’s Port Beach. The work is being delivered as a partnership project by the City
DEME confirmed a sizable contract for dredging and reclamation works in the Port of Gdańsk this morning. According to the Belgian giant, this represents the second major dredging contract for DEME in Poland. The new contract was signed with DCT Gdańsk, the operator of the largest container terminal
California Congresswoman Julia Brownley visited the Ventura Port District recently to celebrate the federal appropriation of $5,516,000 for the maintenance dredging of Ventura Harbor. This is one of the Congresswoman’s ten Community Funded Projects which was included in the Fiscal Year 2022 Omnibus
DCT Gdańsk has signed a contract for the construction of the third deep-water terminal known as T3 with a consortium of Budimex S.A. and Dredging International NV. The works are to start in September. T3 project will include a deep-water quay of 717m long and 17.5m deep, and a yard area of 36.5ha. I
CPRA’s Annual Plan provides an update on the state’s efforts to protect and restore its coast and describes the short-term and long-term results that Louisiana can expect to see as the state progresses toward a sustainable coast. Also, it outlines a $1.35 billion investment toward 142 active project
A launching ceremony of the new self-propelled dredger of Project 93.159 – ordered by State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK) – took place yesterday at Arkhangelsk Region based Lotos Shipyard. According to the company’s official press release, the ceremony was attended by GTLK General Director Yevgen
The land reclamation operations for the New Manila International Airport (MIA) are moving forward. For this capital development program, Boskalis deployed a number of trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) including its largest mega hopper dredgers and a large cutter suction dredger (CSD). Dredgin
J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. has been busy lately working on the sediment cleanup projects in Minnesota. “Last week, I was able to visit four different projects we have going or will be starting in the St. Louis River in Minnesota,” said Andrew Timmis, J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. Director of Business D
At a meeting on 21 June 2022, the EU member states approved the European Commission’s proposal for the allocation of funding for European infrastructure projects. The construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Denmark and Germany will receive EUR 540 million (DKK 4 billion) from the fund. During
