Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian President, yesterday approved the widening and deepening of the southern part of the Suez Canal, after the 20,000TEU container vessel Ever Given crippled the critical maritime artery recently. With a length of 400 meters and a width of nearly 60 meters, this giant ship
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) boating access site at Oman Creek has opened for the season. Seasonal dredging operations were completed on May 5 and the site will be dredged weekly through September 29. Dredging helps clear sediment washed into the creek and river mouth over the
Port Houston recently marked National Infrastructure Week by highlighting the groundbreaking for the start of construction work to support widening and deepening the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel. The nearly billion-dollar project will create safer and more efficient navigation for the ships and vess
As of Monday morning, May 10th, Manson Construction has dredged a total of 290,000 cubic yards of sand from the Harbor inlet, the City of Oceanside Harbor informs. Manson is authorized to dredge another 15,000 cubic yards before demobilizing. Unfortunately, weather and large south swells are creatin
USACE Buffalo District has awarded a $7.8 million contract to Ryba Marine Construction Co. for the repair of 750 feet of the north end of the Buffalo North Breakwater. Under the contract, Ryba will use rubble mound repair to the lakeside of the structure and construction is set to start by mid-summe
Rohde Nielsen A/S has just released these beautiful photos from the Mosede Fort coastal protection project. From March 29 to April 4, the hopper dredger Freja R pumped 20,844m3 of sand onto the beaches, which was distributed over a 330m stretch. This work was done to protect the coast south of Mosed
U.S. EPA will this week begin dredging contaminated sediment in the St. Louis River Area of Concern at Howards Bay in Superior, Wisconsin. St. Louis River AOC is one of the 43 AOCs identified by the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s as the most environmentally degraded areas in the Great Lak
The City of Fremantle, WA, is preparing to put an initial 30,000 cubic metres of sand along Port Beach in the first stage of a major project to protect the beach from coastal erosion. The sand is scheduled to be deposited on the beach in August to avoid the seagrass growing season. With winter appro
Once again, the Damen DOP dredging pump has been put to the test, this time on the North Pacific coast in the town of Waldport. There, the contractor Bergerson Construction Inc. pumped out years of sedimentation at the Pacific Port of Alsea. The marina is mainly used by locals and tourists for leisu
Van Oord has just announced that the company is continuing its involvement in the Aberdeen South Harbour expansion project in the United Kingdom. End of April, Aberdeen Harbour Board awarded another contract to Van Oord, this time for the South Breakwater project. The company has been involved in th
Thousands of tonnes of silt are being removed from the bed of the River Medina to increase the depth of the navigable channel, Isle of Wight Council informs. According to the council, dredgers are returning to the Newport Harbour for the first time since the 1970s. Under the £370,000 contract, the c
A conservation group is taking legal action with the hope of preventing a summer dredging project in St. Simons Sound because of the potential harm it would pose to nesting sea turtles. In a federal lawsuit filed Monday, One Hundred Miles – represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC)
An expert consenting panel has granted fast-track approval for the redevelopment of the Waitohi Picton ferry precinct and surrounding infrastructure, to allow for larger ships to berth, informs the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority. The project involves construction of new terminal buil
BOEM, the USACE’s Baltimore District and the State of Maryland DNR have entered into an agreement allowing USACE to use sand from the Outer Continental Shelf for scheduled beach nourishment as part of its Atlantic Coast of Maryland Shoreline Protection Project. The agreement gives the state, working
