Dredging work at Parham Harbor has been delayed due to unexpected challenges, Antigua News Room said. Lionel Hurst, Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister’s Office, explained at a Post-Cabinet Press Briefing that rock, rather than the anticipated sand or soft material, was found, complicating the proj
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) recently completed major portion of the Long Beach Island storm damage reduction project. According to the Army Corps’ public affairs officer Steve Rochette, earlier this month GLDD finished beach replenishment works in Beach Haven, North Beach Haven and Holgate. Sin
Beginning last week, City Parks crews and South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks contractor crews are working to drain and dredge the Jackson Ponds along Jackson Boulevard across from Jackson Park. Parks crews are pumping water out of the ponds in preparation for dredging out the silt by contractor crews
Royal IHC has launched the first of two fully electric, custom-built Cutter Suction Dredgers at the Yard in Kinderdijk, Netherlands. The new dredger, being built for Kenmare Resources in Africa, was launched without any public announcement on Saturday, January 25th. Together with its sistership, sch
Jackson County, Mississippi, has proposed maintenance dredging of Seacliffe Bayou, two un-named tributaries to Seacliffe Bayou, and the Mississippi Sound in Gautier. The County recently requested a 10-year Department of the Army Permit to maintenance dredge approximately 7,677 cubic yards from Seacl
For professionals involved in activities for water infrastructure development, IADC and CEDA will tomorrow hold a new edition of the Dredging for Sustainable Infrastructure course. Taking place in Scandinavia, the course will be held from 28-30 January 2025 in Copenhagen (Denmark) with the support o
DEME Group has just released the latest update on the Scheldetunnel project, saying that the final section of the old dike on Antwerp’s Left Bank – which separates the river Scheldt from the Scheldetunnel – is being excavated. Once this section is removed, the first tunnel element will be fully unde
At the Damen Dredging Yard, two new generation cutter suction dredgers CSD450 and CSD600 are along the quay for outfitting and trials – almost ready for delivery. The fully dismountable CSD450 is equipped with a high efficiency dredge pump and heavy-duty side wire winches and has a dredging depth of
The construction barge has arrived in Portland to begin construction of Maine’s first Confined Aquatic Disposal (CAD) Cell. Dredging Portland Harbor to keep the waterfront working has been an identified need and priority for decades and now it’s underway. Last fall, the City of Portland signed a con
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) HAM 317 is currently very busy working at the Port of Huelva, Spain. The Port Authority of Huelva obtained the “Working with Nature” certification from the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure (PIANC) recently, for its dredging manageme
Earlier this week, the Barnstable County Commissioners convened as part of the ongoing FY26 budget season to hear presentations from several departments including Dredge Department outlining their priorities for the upcoming fiscal year and to provide updates. The Dredge Department Director Ken Ciri
HydroSurv, in partnership with WASSP Multibeam from Furuno UK, has delivered a REAV-28 Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) equipped with a WASSP multibeam echosounder system to Foyle Marine & Dredging. According to the company, this system is suited for providing bathymetric survey for marine construction
South Australian councils and community groups will share in more than $1.2 million in state government funding to enable vital projects to protect the beautiful coastline. A new seawall at Encounter Bay/Yilki, a replaced bridge on the Streaky Bay Massa boardwalk and sand replenishment at Venus Bay
Bell Dredging Equipment has delivered a complete dredge pump set for the Europa Terminal renewal in Antwerp. Bell said that Adex Groep will work for the next 8 years on the large-scale renewal of the Europa Terminal in the Port of Antwerp. For this project, the Bell 300 dredge pump – along with a po
