WEDA’s Pacific Chapter Virtual Meeting will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2020 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM PST. The meeting will be kicked off by Chapter Announcements and Future Meeting Updates. It will then proceed with USACE Federal Dredging Program Presentation, Current Rule Updates, COVID-19 Les
Somerset West and Taunton Council has commissioned Cardiff Marine to undertake a dredging regime in Watchet Harbor. Work will start next week (27 October) and is expected to last for nine days. Cardiff Marine has the most up to date Water Injection Dredging vessels available. Also, the work will ens
WEDA’s webinar on Restoring the Coastal Marsh Habitat in West Bay, Louisiana with Beneficial use of Riverine Dredged Sediment, to be presented by Dr. Andrew McQueen, will begin at 2 PM EST today. The webinar will provide an overview of the restoration efforts accomplished in West Bay, Louisiana to o
Port of Rotterdam has just released this very interesting video about the research program PRISMA – innovative dredging methods. Furthermore, the Port is continuously looking for ways to make the port smarter more efficient, better and more sustainable. “For this, we look under water to find a sourc
Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has won a contract for the international supply of a network of dredge monitoring buoys. OSIL’s buoy systems have ability to feed the data from the buoy directly into the client servers via Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD). Also, it has ability to use the clie
Dragflow recently put to the test its new DRSP amphibious dredge in a shallow basin in Switzerland. In this basin, regular maintenance must be done through a machine that is flexible and can move easily in the different areas, even with very low depths. For the project, Dragflow supplied new amphibi
Royal IHC is putting the final touches on Arab Potash’ newly built CSD – the Alkaramah. This CSD is a customized mining cutter suction dredger and almost ready for shipment to their client in Jordan. After delivery, the CSD will start dredging works at the Dead Sea in Jordan – to be used for develop
Qingzhou Julong Environment Technology Co. launched their new amphibious multifunctional dredger in China recently. The dredger, named AMD260, will be used for a channel dredging works and the construction of a marina. The AMD260 is a mobile dredger, equipped with a deep water bucket, a hydraulic cu
The Board of the WEDA Pacific Chapter has announced that the Fall 2020 meeting will be going virtual. The meeting will be held on Thursday, October 29, 2020 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM PST. The event will be kicked off by Chapter Announcements, then proceed with USACE Federal Dredging Program Presentation.
U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has announced a series of Great Lakes-related accomplishments in Ohio and across the Midwest. In fact, these include the removal of the final beneficial use impairment at the Ashtabula River Area of Concern (AOC), and the completion of all management actions at
Marelli Motori USA service engineers have performed the final commissioning on two 6000HP, 5kV motors recently supplied to Callan Marine for their new build dredge General MacArthur. The Texas-based contractor recently placed into service the largest and most powerful dredge in North America – with
As part of an extensive refit at Dubai Maritime City, the NMDC’s dredger Umm Al Anber has received the refurbishment of its cutterhead shaft bearings. Ocean Power International LLC replaced the cutterhead and intermediate line shaft bearings like-for-like with Thordon’s water-lubricated Composite sy
DEME Group has successfully performed the first ever LNG bunkering of their giant cutter suction dredger (CSD) ‘Spartacus’. This is not only the first ever LNG bunkering of a CSD in their fleet, but it is also the first time in the world. Titan LNG performed the ship-to-ship bunkering, in close coop
The TU Delft executive board has appointed Dr. ir. Marcel van Gent as professor of Coastal Structures. This addition to the Hydraulic Engineering department will further boost the cooperation between the university, Deltares and the hydraulic engineering sector. Marcel van Gent, who also heads the C
