Africa Global Logistics (AGL) has secured €230 million in financing to expand the container terminal at the Port of Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo. AGL said that the new 750-meter quay – scheduled for completion by 2027 – is set to double the terminal’s capacity to 2.3 million containers annu
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District has awarded a $6.4 million contract to Curtin Maritime Corporation for maintenance dredging of the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU) in North Carolina. The FY26 MOTSU maintenance dredging contract includes removal and disposal of approx
The State of Hawaii said that the removal of 42,000 cubic yards of black sand, rocks and boulders, deposited by the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea, has been underway for two weeks to clear the boat ramp at Pohoiki. It is the largest dredging job ever for the DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (
Foyle & Marine Dredging has successfully wrapped up capital dredging works for Dawson Wam at Campbeltown, Scotland. Foyle crew was tasked with the precise and efficient removal of material to deepen the harbor basin, enabling improved access and functionality for marine traffic. Using their dredger
Chatham TV – Government Access has just released a very interesting video named ‘Backstage | Coastal Resilience – Barnstable County Dredge’. In the video, Director of Coastal Resilience, Catherine Ricks, narrates the dredging conducted by the Barnstable County Dredge.
Michels Construction, Inc. used sophisticated dredging equipment, including a swinging ladder cutterhead suction dredge and booster pump, to remove years of accumulated sediment from a 3.1-mile stretch of the Yahara River in Southern Wisconsin. The dredge was purposefully tailored for this type of w
DEME Environnement marked 35 years of pioneering soil remediation and brownfield redevelopment in Belgium and France with a celebration in Farciennes earlier this week. The event was joined by Hugues Bayet, Olivier Vanderijst, Yves Coppieters, Thibaut de Villenfagne and Luc Vandenbulcke. “Their pres
Rick van de Wetering, Research Engineer at Royal IHC and Ph.D. candidate at Delft University of Technology, has won the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) Young Author Award 2025. The Young Author Award is granted at industry-leading conferences, with 2025’s winning young authors
Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Congressman Mike Ezell (R-MS) have introduced the “Industrial Certification for Coast Guard Veterans Act,” which would expand opportunities for U.S. Coast Guard personnel to transition to the dredging sector upon completion of their service. The bill directs the D
The Port of Hastings Corporation has submitted a new referral to the Australian Government under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act for the Victorian Renewable Energy Terminal. This referral is the next step for the project to confirm the Commonwealth environmental a
J.E. McAmis started the dredging operations for the USACE Alaska District at Dutch Harbor yesterday. According to J.E. McAmis, their new excavator dredge Ellis Island is set to remove 170,000 cubic yards of glacial till. Currently, a bar shallower than the surrounding seabed located at the entrance
A crew from Groupe Merceron is dredging the access channel to the Port of Audierne. This annual campaign is essential to maintain navigability for marine traffic in the area, the Group said. The main goal of this dredging program is to mechanically remove 28,500 m³ of sand, restoring the waterway’s
In close cooperation with Royal IHC, MaraSoft has won a contract to equip a newly built dredger for an Indian client with its Marad Fleet Management system. “Last time, we shared a project from our hometown. This time, it’s one from much farther away,” said Pieter van Urk, MaraSoft owner. Marad is a
A medieval sword, found during a dredging work on a river in the Netherlands, has gone on display at a museum in Leiden. The sword was found during routine maintenance dredging at the Linschoten Estate and has been donated to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities), according t
