The Port of Montreal has just released this very interesting video about their latest expansion project: construction of a new terminal in Contrecoeur. Work on the future terminal will be carried out in hybrid mode:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has just released a beautiful video named ‘Shoal Harbor Maintenance Dredging 2023’. In the video, Peter Kuglstatter, project engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, discusses the maintenance dredging of Shoal Harbor, and benefic
The last decade witnessed an increasing level of attention to sustainability and sustainable development across all sectors all over the world, including the dredging industry. Also, the dredging industry has vital roles in the global sustainability transition and the dredging community has to work
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has completed work for the 2023 season to dredge an emergency navigable channel in the Hay River Harbour, a critical link in the territory’s transportation network. The long-standing navigation channel in the Hay River Harbour has been affected by n
The Baku Shipyard LLC and the Damen Shipyards Gorinchem B.V. have signed a contract for the construction of a cutter suction dredger CSD650. This is a self-propelled or stationary vessel that uses a rotating cutter head to loosen the material in the hard ground. The CSD can work in water depths up t
Weeks Marine’s cutterhead dredge J.S. CHATRY has completed the augmentation of the underwater sill in the Mississippi River. According to Army Corps New Orleans District, the sill which is now -30 feet below water, has been operationally complete. The sill, first completed in July 2023, was construc
The Astrakhan Oblast based Stroyliderplus shipyard hosted an official launching ceremony for a non-self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) Nikolai Rusanov yesterday. The vessel is being built for state-owned Rosmorport and will be deployed for dredging operations on the Volga-Caspian Sea Shippin
The Suffolk County Department of Public Works (DPW) is about to begin dredging project near the Shinnecock Inlet, Town of Southampton, NY. In an effort to fortify the beach and dune area on the West side of the Shinnecock Inlet, Suffolk County DPW will undertake this dredging project that will place
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has just announced the delivery of the Cape Hatteras and the Cape Canaveral, the two Damen 3013 Multi Cats built by Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, LA. Chris Gunsten, Great Lakes’ Senior Vice President of Project Services and Fleet Engineering, commented
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District has prepared a Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) for the Manteo Shallowbag Bay (Oregon Inlet) Navigation Corridor project. This Draft EA addresses the emergency dredging of the western alternate route as well as long-term maintenance of t
Jan De Nul Group’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Kaishuu and BMT Bunker and Mineralöltransport GmbH have executed a groundbreaking bunkering operation with 100% sustainable biofuel. This delivery, the first of its kind in Germany, comprised 1,200 tons of UCOME (Used Cooking Oil Methyl Ester
For the first time in long time, the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal is getting some much needed help as a three month dredging project started yesterday. “We’ve been dredging every three years all on our own and there’s never really been major dredging of the full canal,” the general manager of the Lewes Yach
Douglas County Board of Commissioners Tom Kress, Chris Boice, and Tim Freeman have announced the successful completion of a historic dredging project at Salmon Harbor Marina in Winchester Bay. “We are pleased that we were able to get the dredging done, but the journey to accomplishing this was quite
A dredging vessel working on the Laem Chabang Port Project Phase 3 Harbor in Thailand last week caused an oil leak impacting the nearby ocean. The Laem Chabang Port Department, Chonburi Harbor Master and Sriracha Offshore 88 Co, Ltd. immediately launched an operation to take control of the oil leak
