The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District has been at the forefront of implementing Thin Layer Placement of sediment as an innovative and sustainable method for managing dredged material in Mobile Bay, Alabama. According to USACE, this approach has become a cornerstone of the District’s strat
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has won several dredging contracts, totaling $256.2 million. The awarded work includes: The Mobile Harbor, Alabama Deepening and Widening Dredging Project 2A, involves deepening the channel by six feet to improve channel navigation to allow deeper draft v
Town of Chatham said that USACE’s hopper dredge Murden is set to arrive on or about August 29 to begin maintenance dredging of the entrance channel to Stage Harbor. The dredging vessel will be dredging daily for approximately 13 days using 24 hr. shifts with crew changes at 6:00 a.m. and then 6:00 p
APT Global Marine and Offshore has completed one of the company’s biggest projects for NMDC Dredging and Marine, the repowering and upgrading of cutter suction dredger Umm El Zemoul. The project involved extensive docking scope, including cutter ladder refurbishment, spud carriage refurbishment, spu
Norfolk Dredging Co., from Chesapeake, Virginia, has won a $19 million firm-fixed-price contract for a maintenance dredging program in North Carolina. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) said. Work will be performed in Southport and Wilmingto
Mud Cat is getting ready to ship another WeedMaster cutterhead to its customer in the United States. “This is our customer’s second WeedMaster cutterhead,” said Mud Cat. “The WeedMaster can be used to cut and pump hyacinths, cattails, reeds, milfoil, sargassum, hydrilla, and many other types of aqua
Nakheel, a member of Dubai Holding’s pioneering real estate arm, Dubai Holding Real Estate, has awarded an AED810 million (over $220 million) contract for the marine works on Palm Jebel Ali to “Jan De Nul Dredging LTD.” According to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), part of the international Jan De Nu
The £23 million dredger Emerald Duchess, a major investment by PD Ports into the economic and environmental sustainability of the river, made its way on to the Tees early this morning, fresh from successful sea trials in the Netherlands. At 71m long and with its standout green livery, the Emerald Du
China’s first dual-fuel powered trailing suction hopper dredger, the “XIN HAI XUN” has successfully completed its sea trial in July. With a liquefied natural gas (LNG) clean energy capacity of 15,000 cubic meters, the vessel boasts a total length of 155.7 meters, a breadth of 32m, a depth of 13.5m a
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District has contracted with the Inland Dredging Company for the rental of a 24-inch hydraulic cutterhead dredge, attendant plant, and discharge pipeline for the annual maintenance dredging of 10 Mississippi River harbors this year. “The Memphis District is
Boating at Kalbarri is safer following the completion of biennial maintenance dredging campaign to widen the channel and restore safe navigational depths at the mouth of Murchison River. An added bonus of the work was the deepening of water around a jetty used for swimming and recreation, approved b
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, has published the final General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Impact Statement (GRR/EIS) for the Tampa Harbor Navigation Improvement Study in Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties, Florida. In accordance with the National Environmental Po
Dredge Yard has entered a collaboration with Dockyard and Engineering Works Ltd in Bangladesh to construct a new state-of-the-art cutter suction dredger, type CSD400. According to an official Dredge Yard’s announcement, “this strategic partnership combines Dredge Yard’s engineering expertise and hig
China has started building the nation’s largest and most advanced trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). Upon its completion, the new vessel will become the largest TSHD in Asia, said Fei Long, a senior researcher at the Marine Design and Research Institute of China. “The new ship will be nearly 19
