Port Taranaki, New Zealand, has started the process to renew its harbour maintenance dredging resource consents. Maintenance dredging is crucial to Port Taranaki’s ability to trade as a deep-water port. The periodic dredging campaigns remove sediment and sand buildup from the harbour – keeping shipp
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District has completed the first project funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – the Petersburg Navigation Improvements project. Located in Southeast Alaska between Juneau and Ketchikan, the Petersburg dredging project restored the the Borough’s South H
Technosub Group and DRAGFLOW have joined forces to launch Dragflow USA, elevating pumping and dredging solutions across the United States. The President and CEO of the Technosub Group, Mr. Eric Beaupre, is delighted with this strategic alliance: “The launch of Dragflow USA underscores our commitment
After four weeks of dredger on-site assembly, launching commissioning and training, the HID CSD750 heavy-duty cutter suction dredger is ready to work in the Maldives. The new dredger has just completed its journey from the assembly line to its designated work site, in anticipation of its inaugural d
Jenkins Marine has just released this amazing night photo of their backhoe dredger Doreen Dorward, working with the new 50t long reach excavator and 3D GPS guidance system and split hopper barge NAB at Sparkes Marina on Hayling Island. “Working in Chichester Harbour presents an additional challenge
Belgium’s V.H.F.R. Group completed some repair work on Boskalis’ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Causeway last week. For this project, V.H.F.R. team undertook several essential tasks, including: “Throughout this small but intensive project, V.H.F.R. Group team received valuable support from t
DKE Marine Services, Inc. has begun dredging areas in Bayou Texar around storm drainage outfall, the City of Pensacola announced earlier this week. The work entails removal of accumulated sediments and debris from nine stormwater outfall locations. The sites are include: The $642,504.50 contract wit
Over the next 18 months, HR Wallingford will be carrying out a study for The World Bank to assess how water levels in the Caspian Sea are likely to change under a range of future climate change scenarios and how this will affect the Port of Aktau in Kazakhstan. Aktau is the largest port in […
DEME Group has just released this amazing video named ‘From dredged material to thriving natural habitat’. The fairway between the ports of Szczecin and Świnoujście, Poland, recently underwent a modernisation that goes beyond just improved maritime access. DEME and its joint venture partner Van Oord
Callan Marine has ceremoniously added a new 32-inch cutter suction dredge to its fleet, the General Arnold. The General Arnold was christened in Corpus Christi, Texas, on February 20, 2024, and will immediately begin work on Phase Four of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project. The proj
The dredging works at Singapore’s Gul Basin – for ST Engineering Marine Ltd – are scheduled to begin next month. According to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, the dredging operations will take place in the vicinity of Gul Basin and West Jurong Channel. Dredging work is set to be carried
Port of Townsville contractors, CivilPlus Constructions have finished shortening the Eastern Breakwater, removing 22,000 tons of rock in a project that took 5960 work hours. Overall, the project included removal of material to shorten the existing breakwater by approximately 70m and allow capital dr
The Cassowary Coast Regional Council (QLD) will soon be undertaking beach nourishment works at South Mission Beach. Starting next week, the nourishment works will consist of relocating sand dredged from Tully River to a 700m section of beach at Kennedy Esplanade, between Jackey Jackey Street and Owe
Port Hedland maintenance dredging campaign 2024 is well underway with trailing suction hopper dredger Juan Sebastián de Elcano removing silt and other materials to maintain the navigability of the port. The annual Port Hedland dredging works commenced in early February and are expected to be ongoing
