Despite the grey sky, beautiful Baarland beach is ready for the spring season. Baarland in Zeeland, the Netherlands, is set to welcome visitors following a beach nourishment programme undertaken earlier this month. Taking place every four years, around 20,000 mᶟ of sand was used from the Western Sch
APM Terminals has entered into a strategic partnership with HATECO group for a project to develop two new deep-water berths at Lach Huyen port in Haiphong City, located in the north of Vietnam. As part of the strategic partnership, APM Terminals will provide financial, operational and technical supp
Work will begin this week to clear a build-up of sand at Bandy Creek Boat Harbour at Esperance. The $1.5 million biennial maintenance dredging project will see around 60,000 cubic metres of material extracted restoring channel depths at the entrance to the harbour and reducing the sand trap adjacent
On the Independence Day of Bangladesh, March 26, the Payra Port Access Channel was declared open for commercial vessels up to a draught of 10.5m. The Chairman of Payra Port, Rear Admiral Sohail, together with Jan De Nul’s Project Director Jan Moens, made the announcement in presence of Mr. Mohibbur
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) has just announced that the Gaafu Alif Atoll Villingili Harbor Development Project is moving ahead according to schedule. The new harbor dredging work has reached 45 percent completion, and quay wall block installation work has already commenced. The
The Tooradin boat ramp upgrade plans are out for public consultation until Wednesday, April 5, Better Boating Victoria (BBV) said. Plans propose resurfacing and extending the concrete ramp which, combined with dredging, would provide access at a greater range of tides. Other improvements include a p
The New Lock Terneuzen project is really taking shape as the loading operation of the first bridge and two doors took place last month. Each door is 26m high x 62m wide and weighs 2,000 tonnes. At 86m long, the bridge has also a substantial weight of 1,540 tonnes. The arrival of the new bridge [&hel
Around Southsea Castle, the units making up the terrace for the ‘Theatre of the Sea’ are really looking the part. “So far we’ve installed 95 of 250 units. Near the Pyramids, work is going swimmingly on the rock groyne as we reach the halfway mark in installing geotextile, which is the base layer for
A dredging campaign is set to take place at Buncrana Harbour from Monday, 27th March, to Friday, 21st April, Donegal County Council said. MV Otterbank will carry out plough dredging daily from 7am to 8pm. “Access to the pier and movements within the harbour will be restricted during these works and
Neom – said to be the brainchild of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) – is a futuristic mega-city planned for construction in northwestern Saudi Arabia. It will consist of three regions including The Line – a ‘smart city’ encased in mirrored walls that designers say will run on 1
The Maharashtra Fisheries Development Corporation (MFDC) is proposing to reclaim just over 19 hectares of land from the sea at Versova Beach, for setting up a fishing harbour under the Centre’s Sagarmala initiative, Hindustan Times reports. This will be done by dredging up 5,29,548 cubic metres of s
Dredging operations at Mornington’s Schnapper Point boat ramp are now underway, Better Boating Victoria (BBV) reports. “Through the Better Boating Fund’s reinvestment of the boating licence and registration fees, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council last year secured a grant to improve access at a pai
Dikes protect the Netherlands from flooding. To keep the Netherlands safe in the future, several dikes are being reinforced in the High Water Protection Programme. The traditional way of strengthening dikes involves ‘hard’ (asphalt) revetment, but this is at the expense of the natural environment. T
“The dredger Oranje is not welcome in the Maldives.” With this text, activists of the Save Maldives Campaign express their opposition to a major project for which Boskalis has been hired. The giant hopper dredger arrived in the Maldives on February 21 to dredge the Male area – a project related to t
