Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) announced today the receipt of several major dredging awards totaling $90.3 million. The awarded work includes: Boston Harbor Navigation Improvement Project-Phase 3 (Capital, Massachusetts, $61.8 million); Rehabilitation Effort for the Panama City Beaches
The Town of Emerald Isle, NC, has just released this very interesting video about the Emerald Isle Dredging Project. In the video, Carteret County Shore Protection Manager, Greg “Rudi” Rudolph, provides an March 17 update concerning the ongoing dredging work in Emerald Isle. The Ellis Island, the la
Canal & River Trust is starting a £1.6 million program of improvements to the reservoirs at Earlswood. The works, which are required to ensure the reservoirs are compliant with reservoir legislation, will require some local footpaths to be temporarily closed from 13 April, and some local roads from
After successful completion of the commissioning tests on the Dutch coastline and Haringvliet, Royal IHC officially handed over the cutter suction dredger (CSD) MOHAB MAMEESH to the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Thursday 18 March. With the delivery of the 29,190kW heavy-duty rock CSD, SCA now owns o
Yesterday was an exciting day for Foyle and Marine Dredging as they took delivery of the Hitachi EX1200 Excavator. The ‘Grizzly 2.0’ is a monster of a machine with a 30-metre reach and a 20-metre dig depth with a 4m3 bucket capacity. The EX1200 is a unique excavator within the Hitachi range, adaptin
Coastal Partners today released the latest update on their North Portsea Island Coastal Defense Project. From April to September 2021, they will be constructing the first 500m of seawall and rebuilding two slipways along the Eastern Road as part of the North Portsea Island coastal defense scheme. “W
Kaymac Marine & Civil Engineering Ltd. has just released this very interesting video about their recently completed dredging project on the River Taff in Cardiff. This maintenance work on main rivers is one important element of managing the flood risk across Wales. The works to keep these channels c
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and the harbor authority for Howth Harbor Fishery Centre are proposing to dredge seabed material from within the harbor. The main goal of these works is to provide better water access to the fishing, leisure, and RNLI craft using the harbor,
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has just released the latest update on the Sh. Lhaimagu Harbor development project. According to MTCC, the dredging works in the new harbor basin are currently ongoing, with 78% completion so far. The first shipment of rock boulders required for brea
The USACE Wilmington District is holding a virtual scoping meeting on March 25th at 6 p.m. and seeking comments for proposed work within jurisdictional waters of the United States by the Town of North Topsail Beach in Onslow County, North Carolina. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the scoping meeting w
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC (GLDD), from Oak Brook, Illinois, has won a $28.5 million firm-fixed-price contract for rehabilitation efforts for the Panama City Beaches Coastal Storm Risk Management Project. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received, the U.S. Department of Defense
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) has won a dredging contract valued at Rs 310 crore ($42.7 million) from Centre-run Deendayal Port Trust in Kandla, Gujarat. According to The Hindu Business Line, India’s biggest private port operator and private dredging contractor had emerged the lo
The USACE Baltimore District awarded a contract on March 5, 2021, to Mohawk Valley Materials for approximately $3.23 million to replace the floodwall adjacent to Penn Street – part of USACE’s Codorus Creek flood risk management project. The overall project, located in the vicinity of York, Pennsylva
A body was found yesterday afternoon in the Boco River in Vagos, Aveiro district in Portugal, during a dredging project. An alert was issued at about 2 pm, after the body was discovered on the bank of the Boco River, said the Capitania do Porto de Aveiro in their official statement. An official from
