USACE Wilmington District has just released this very interesting video named ‘The Dredge Murden Night Operations – Big Foot Slough’. In April 2021, USACE’s dredging vessel Murden was performing emergency dredging in Big Foot Slough to open the channel for ferries, the USCG, and other vessels. The s
Orion Group Holdings today announced two contract awards totaling approximately $38 million. The Company’s Marine segment has been awarded a contract valued at $28.5 million to perform demolition and construction to establish a new aquatic habitat to benefit juvenile salmon in the Puget Sound area o
Damen Dredging Equipment, the specialist in highly efficient dredging tools within the Damen Shipyards Group, has successfully delivered six cutter suction dredgers to the Secretaria de Marina, Mexico. For this project, five standard dredgers type CSD500 and one type CSD450 have been manufactured an
Singapore’s National Water Agency PUB is about to begin a study on protecting the City-East Coast coastline from rising sea levels caused by climate change. The study, which will take about four years to complete, will cover 57.8km of coastline across three areas – Changi, the East-Coast Marina stre
After a year of closure Lloyd Beach and boat is set to reopen to the public later this month with a new breakwater system, a new boardwalk, restored bluffs and a replenished beach, Winnetka Park District informs. After being battered by historically high lake levels in 2019 and remaining closed for
The Jimmys Beach Sand Transfer System will be used to create a sand buffer along the beach, in preparation for winter weather events. MidCoast Council contractors CCB Envico will be running the renourishment program and expect to start pumping from this Thursday, May 20. The Sand Transfer System use
After being closed for six months, Bathtub Beach opened today, Martin County said in their latest announcement. The beach closed after Tropical Storm Eta last fall. According to officials from Martin County, 182,000 cubic yards of sand were dredged and moved onto the shoreline. Weeks Marine, a New J
The State oh Hawaii is investigating the circumstances associated with what is described as significant damage to corals and live rock near the entrance channel to Honolulu Harbor. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracted dredging work to the Healy Tibbets Corporation. It is alleged that the cont
Foyle and Marine’s dredger Aoibheann is currently mobilised to the Port of Greenore, in County Louth, Ireland. Foyle and Marine dredging crews are working in support of the principal contractor Cunningham Civil and Marine. The dredging works include a portion of underwater rock breaking, which Foyle
The Sunny Isles Beach shoreline renourishment, part of the Miami-Dade County Beach Erosion Control and Hurricane Protection Project, will begin in the following days. The contractor, Eastman Aggregate Enterprises, LLC, will renourish eroded shoreline in Sunny Isles Beach, using beach-quality sand fr
Along the North Pacific US-coast there are plenty of small harbours and marinas. The Port of Astoria, located on the Columbia River, is one of them. This marina not only receives large cruise vessels, but is also quite active in accommodating fishing boats, commercial and recreational vessels. The m
Russian Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot) has signed Acceptance Certificate for Phase 1 of the Bagayevsky hydrosystem project. The main aim of the Bagayevsky hydrosystem project is to solve the problems of navigation on the Volga-Don Waterway. According to Rosmorrechflot, th
Somerset Rivers Authority is to spend £3.44 million on 21 projects giving Somerset residents greater flood protection and resilience. Towns, villages and rural river catchments across Somerset, from Dulverton in the west to Beckington in the east, will benefit from the SRA’s 2021-22 Enhanced Program
DEME Group has won a contract for the maintenance dredging of the River Elbe in Germany, together with their joint venture partner Van Oord. The maintenance work covers the stretch of the fairway from Hamburg to Cuxhaven. Several trailing suction hopper dredgers will be deployed on this project from
