The Georgia General Assembly has allocated just over $6 million for special harbor improvements at the Port of Brunswick as part of the state’s midyear budget adjustment. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ recommended harbor improvement plan includes a bend widener, expansion of the turning basin (wh
BEML Limited and Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) yesterday, aimed at advancing the design, development, and manufacturing of spare parts for dredging vessels. The MoU, signed by BEML CMD Shantanu Roy and MD & CEO of DCIL Capt S Divakar at BEML h
Jan De Nul’s cutter suction dredger (CSD) Fernão de Magalhães is currently very busy working in the Port of Rostock. Herman Senior b.v. has just released this beautiful photo of its multicat Panda, assisting the large cutter section dredger. Awarded by the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administrati
The New Jersey Department of Transportation has just released this amazing video about the latest Wildwood dredging project. In this video, Maritime Resident Engineer Joselyn Wall takes us on a fascinating tour of an on-going winter dredging operation in Wildwood:
J.F. Brennan Company recently posted an interesting blog post on Treatability: An Important Asset in Environmental Dredging. Treatability testing uses bench-scale demonstrations and analysis to determine if a material can be effectively treated with a specific chemical or process. At Brennan, they u
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined Australian Industrial Energy Pty Ltd (AIE) $15,000 for allegedly discharging a plume of turbid water the size of a football field from its Port Kembla Gas Terminal into the Port Kembla Outer Harbor last September. The discharge occurred during
UK Dredging have been hired to conduct maintenance dredging of the ESSO Fawley and BP Hamble facilities in Southampton. The trailing suction hopper dredger UKD BLUEFIN will be engaged in dredging operations in the vicinity of Esso Fawley and BP Hamble for a period of approximately 10 days, the Port
Norfolk Dredging has completed their work dredging the channel and placing sand on the beach in Topsail Island, NC. According to the Town, the contractor finished another successful dredging/beach nourishment project on February 26. Over the next few weeks, the crews will be working to demobilize eq
The Town of Barnstable said that the County Dredge and the Town’s contractor, Dig-It Construction, will begin mobilizing equipment in preparation for the Cotuit Bay Entrance Channel Dredging Project in the following days. This project will consist of dredging the approach channel into Cotuit Bay. Ac
The Dredging Contractors of America announced today that the House and Senate have reached deal on the first set of appropriations bills including Energy & Water. In their announcement, DCA showed support for the bipartisan bipartisan package of appropriations bills agreed to by the U.S. House of Re
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ New Orleans District has just released this very interesting video named ‘Dredging at the Port of Morgan City’. In the video, Col. Cullen Jones, commander, New Orleans District, Michael Stack, Operations Division chief and Mac Wade, executive director, Port of Morga
New Jersey Department of Transportation team has won a National Recognition Award in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 2024 Engineering Excellence Awards competition for the Manasquan Area Channels Maintenance Dredging Project. The $7.2 million project restored eight channels in M
Port of Coos Bay, Oregon, recently welcomed a handymax bulk carrier at the GMA Garnet dock. The vessel is the second ship to call at river mile 15 in the last 12 months. Prior to last year’s call, it had been over 20 years since a deep draft vessel transited and moored at River Mile […]
Boskalis Westminster Ltd recently commenced work on a capital dredging project within the Port of Southampton. The project, being undertaken on behalf of Associated British Ports (ABP), will widen a section of the existing navigation channel within the port’s Western Docks by up to 46m over a length
