Marinex Construction Inc. has won a $22.8 million contract for maintenance dredging works in Savannah, Georgia. The work is located in the Savannah Harbor deep draft navigation project in the vicinity of Chatham County, Georgia and Jasper County, South Carolina. According to the Army Corps, approxim
The Jamestown Fishing Harbor Project has been successfully completed and is awaiting formal handing over to the Government of Ghana, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) said. The project, which includes dredging about 100,000 cubic metres of Harbor Basin, construction of hydraulic structures about
The first of series Damen CSD600 has started its operations in Indonesia. The cutter suction dredger is the first of Damen’s comprehensive new dredger range to be delivered. It was transported from Rotterdam, the Netherlands to Indonesia as deck cargo on a heavy lift carrier. The stationary dredger,
Dredging work at the entrance of the Tweed River is set to begin this month – part of the Tweed Sand Bypassing project. The project’s objectives are to establish and maintain a safe, navigable entrance to the Tweed River, and restore and maintain the coastal sand drift to the beaches on the southern
The Honourable Judge Steven Merrick of the Sechelt Provincial Court fined George Winkler $70,000 for offences under Canada’s Fisheries Act last month. Mr. Winkler pleaded guilty in October 2023 to violating the fish and fish habitat protection provisions of the Act by undertaking work that resulted
Last week, Royal IHC team in Brazil successfully concluded the final commissioning test and begun operations of the dredging pump for the last of four electrical mining dredgers designed and supplied to serve Vale’s Gelado Project. “With our dedicated team focused on achieving project success, they
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its third review of the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Upper Hudson River. The EPA’s review concludes that PCB levels in water and fish are going down overall, but the EPA needs more years of fish data to determine if the clea
In the tidal lagoon south-east of Cadiz, southern Spain, is the yachting marina San Fernando. Over the past few decades the access to the yachting harbor “Club Náutico de la Casería” and its berths have silted up heavily due to tidal and river flows carrying silt into the harbor. To ensure access fo
The City of Sanibel, Florida, said that dredging will begin on the entrance channel to the Shell Harbor subdivision today. According to the City, the work will take a few weeks to complete. “The channel will remain open for use during dredging, however, there may be short periods of time when boat t
Femern A/S has just released this beautiful photo of Boskalis’ giant backhoe dredger Odin. Odin arrived in Rødbyhavn at the end of May, tasked to conduct a very important job of removing the outer, temporary dike at the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel. The temporary dike has until now shielded the construction s
The Dredge Hurley, a dustpan dredge from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, has been very busy these days, removing sediment from navigation channels in the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, La. Dustpan dredges, like the Hurley, are unique to the Mississippi River system and work
Royal IHC has signed an agreement with the Vietnamese shipyard Nam Trieu for the construction of a 2,300m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). This project, commissioned by De Boer – Dutch Dredging, marks the beginning of what is expected to be a long term collaboration in Asia, said Royal IHC.
A $3.1 million dredging operation at the Wailoa Small Boat Harbor in Hawaii started earlier this week and is expected to be complete by the end of the year. Depending on the location, sediment build up and available funding, the DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (DOBOR) attempts to condu
Dragflow is currently in the midst of conducting tests on the second of three DRSP multipurpose dredgers. “This amphibious dredge can be fitted with pumps, excavators, and other accessories, such as the dredge head,” said the company. “Their versatility allows them to handle tasks that typically r
