The City of Santa Barbara said that their latest Fall/Winter dredge cycle started on Wednesday, January 10, and was completed on Tuesday, January 16. The city’s Waterfront Department is working closely with the US Army Corps of Engineers to keep the Federal Channel of the Santa Barbara Harbor open f
The dredging vessel Ginger has gone down at its berth at the Port of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, spilling oil into the harbor, the State Environmental Inspectorate of the Southwest District said. The Ginger went down in Mykolaiv on January 15. According to officials, the cause of the accident was not reporte
J.E. McAmis crews have been busy lately dredging at FRC (Fast Response Cutter) Homeport for the U.S. Coast Guard at Tongue Point, OR. The company is working as a subcontractor to Granite Construction, part of the GWWH A Joint Venture that won the contract to expand Coast Guard facilities at Tongue P
The Belgian specialist diving company SUBMAR BV recently ordered a DOP200 dredge pump for one specific project: cleaning out the Charles de Gaulle lock in Dunkerque, northern France. The lock, measuring 365 by 50 meters, involves a structure with four rolling doors of 1,700 ton each. These doors are
Noosa Council, Queensland, has selected a preferred contractor to tackle severe erosion along the beach section of Noosa Spit. Last week, the Council endorsed Hall Contracting as preferred contractor – to be ratified tomorrow – and authorized CEO Larry Sengstock to oversee contract negotiations. “Th
Mike Bell – North Somerset Councilor for Weston Central Ward – has just announced that the next phase of improvement work at Weston-super-Mare’s Marine Lake will start next month. This is part of a program of work made possible thanks to North Somerset Council’s successful bid for £20 million invest
The first campaign of the new multi-year maintenance dredging contract in the Port of Waterford has been completed by Irish Dredging Company (a subsidiary of Boskalis). The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Freeway returned to Waterford and removed over 130,000 cubic metres of sediment to ensur
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor is about to begin dredging for Brevard County (FL) beach renourishment project. According to the Corps, the Brevard Co beachfill project will begin on or about Jan. 24; the sand placement along the shoreline will begin on or about Jan. 29. The project inc
Dredging of contaminated sediment is expected to begin later this month at the Bellingham Shipping Terminal, Washington State Department of Ecology said. With federal funding, the Port of Bellingham is making improvements to the terminal, including dredging about 22,000 cubic yards of contaminated s
Rijkswaterstaat recently successfully completed another beach replenishment project – the Scheveningen beachfill campaign. During the works, a total of 700,000 m3 of sand was dredged and spread over the beach, between the harbor head and the beach north of the Pier. The project, completed late last
The trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Willem Sr closed 2023 with a maintenance dredging campaign in the Ferry Port of Breskens, Filia Dredging said. Under the project, approximately 185,000 tonnes dry solid was removed in and in front of the ferry port. With this, Filia Dredging completed the d
A keel laying ceremony of the UKD Seadragon took place in Gdansk, Poland, recently. The UKD Seadragon is a diesel electric Damen 2711 Shoalbuster that will carry the water injection dredging (WID) for UK Dredging around the coast of the UK. “This expansion to the fleet adds another form of dredging
KODIAK GmbH has been selected as the exclusive supplier for quality control (QC) inspection, health, safety, and environment (HSE) and client representative services for the civil engineering works of the world’s Energy Island project, the Princess Elisabeth Island in the North Sea. In this collabor
Port Stephens State MP and Minister for Family and Community Services, Kate Washington, visted Tea Gardens yesterday to announce a multi-million dollar program to fund the much-needed dredging of the Myall River. According to Washington, the dredging project will be carried out from the ‘Singing Bri
