The Port of Townsville’s $232 million Channel Upgrade project has reached a significant milestone with the largest Australian owned backhoe dredge, Woomera, now dredging in Cleveland Bay. “If you’re on the bay, you’re sure to spot Woomera loading the material dredged from the channel on to support b
The Port of Los Angeles has completed construction of the $65 million Everport Terminal Improvement Project located at Berths 226-236 along the Los Angeles Main Channel. The project allows Everport to improve the container-handling efficiency and capacity of its existing terminal to accommodate the
Van Oord’s hopper dredger Rotterdam arrived in Harwich Harbour this morning to carry out routine maintenance dredging under the £120m capital Channel Deepening project. With a carrying capacity of 38,000 DWT, TSHD Rotterdam is amongst the largest dredging vessels ever to visit the harbour. From appr
On March 11, 2022, Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, USACE Commanding General and 55th Chief of Engineers, signed the Brunswick Harbor Navigation Project Chiefs Report. The Army Corps’ Savannah District seeks to reduce transportation cost inefficiencies at Brunswick Harbor. The recommended plan is a combinat
At Maasvlakte 2, 55ha of land is being reclaimed from the sea for companies that make renewable fuels and chemical products. Marine engineering company Van Oord recently started with the project. The company is delivering a total of 5 million m3 of dredged sand onto the southern part of Prinses Alex
ADYR Constructions has just announced the successful completion of Ashdod Port’s Quay 21 transformation project. According to the company, this milestone is the result of cooperation and collaboration between the client (Israel Port Company), the port operator (Ashdod Port Ltd), the contractor (Chin
The construction works at the Woods Hole Ferry Terminal project site will soon be finished, according to Jay Cashman, Inc. The contractor has just released the latest photo update for the Woods Hole Ferry project saying that they are near completion of this 3-half-year scheme. Overall, the project e
DP World and the Democratic Republic of Congo recently kicked off construction of the massive Banana Port project. This infrastructure project, one of DP World’s largest port investments in Africa, is being developed at Banana, along the country’s 37km coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in Kongo Centra
The development of the new quay walls in the Amaliahaven in Rotterdam is progressing well and at a rapid pace, informs Van Oord. As reported by Van Oord, on both sides of the basin the contours of the quays are starting to become visible. On the APM side 500 metres of combi-walls are ready and [&hel
Napier Port and HEB Construction today released the latest video about the 6 Wharf development scheme, the biggest port construction projects in New Zealand in recent times. In the video, Napier Port’s Chair Alasdair Macleod and HEB’s Construction Manager Dan Chisnall presented some of the highlight
Hall Contracting has just announced that their 65-metre-long backhoe dredge Woomera is ready for her next dredging job, the Port of Townsville Channel Upgrade project. The Woomera has set sail from Brisbane and is journeying 700 nautical miles to the Port of Townsville to work on the Channel Upgrade
Baars Charter B.V. together with Merceron recently completed a port expansion project on the west coast of France – dredging the harbour of La Turballe. For this job, in addition to dredging equipment from Merceron, Baars type B113 split barge was used to transport dredged sediment, sand and water.
The Connecticut Port Authority Board of Directors yesterday approved a notice to proceed to its construction manager to begin permitted dredging activities at its State Pier Improvements Project in New London. On December 16 2021, the US Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, issued to the a
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has won another contract in Sri Lanka, this time for the construction of Colombo Port East Container Terminal. According to CHEC, this is next large hydraulic wharf project won by CHEC in Sri Lanka after Hambantota Port, Colombo South Port, and JCT Wharf amon
