The community has been invited to have a further say on an LNP Government strategy that would prevent dredged material from expansion at the port of Abbot Point being placed in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning Jeff See
The Liebherr P 995 Pontoon is one of the biggest Marine Excavators in the World. Möbius, from Hamburg, Germany, is a specialist hydro engineering company. With years of experience, Möbius relies upon Liebherr marine excavators. With their second Liebherr P 995 Pontoon Excavator (based on the Liebher
Dredging operations have began at Kwai Tsing Container Terminals 1, 2, 5 and 9 and will be performed over the next six months, reported Marine Department of the HKSAR. The works will be carried out by a grab dredger, two tug boats, four hopper barges and one motor survey boat. The number of vessels
Baltimore Port Alliance has just released a video about Masonville, an innovative environmental project that utilizes dredge material to create new usable land for the port and cleans up natural space that is used by the community. Construction of the Masonville Dredged Material Containment Facility
Royal HaskoningDHV together with its Saudi partner has launched a new office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for their joint venture SADECO (Saudi Dutch Engineering Consultancy). The office was officially opened during a festive reception on 27 November 2014 by H.E. Sheikh Amr Al-Dabbagh, Dabbagh Group Cha
Homes in Much Wenlock, Broadway, Childswickham and Murcot will be better protected from floods thanks to an unprecedented six-year £2.3 billion flood defense program, benefiting Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire to the tune of over £12 million. Improvements
The U.S. Coast Guard and partner agencies are conducting the search for a 25-year-old Emanuel Gatling in the Christina River near the Port of Wilmington after a crane barge capsized Tuesday night, reported the CBS. According to the Coast Guard, an employee from Norfolk Dredging Company contacted Coa
The Eighth International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments will take place on 12–15 January, 2015, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Conference is organized and presented by Battelle and Sponsors including public-and private-sector organizations active in environmental
Pressed by environmental groups, the federal agency that oversaw a study of the proposed terminal groin on Figure Eight Island has decided to take another look at the structure after property owners submitted a new design and location that aren’t included in the original study. The Army Corps of Eng
The test closure of the first completed storm-surge barrier in Venice at the Lido location was a success. The Lido barrier is one of the three movable barriers that will protect the city of Venice from flooding. The barriers are being built at the Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia inlets to the lagoon. T
The steel cutting ceremony for the new project, the 1.840 m3 twin screw trailing suction hopper dredger “Mahury”, took place at MTG Dolphin on 25th of November 2014. This is the second ship in series (after “Albatros”), being built by order of Royal IHC for Dutch Dredging. The vessel will be capable
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just released a video about the Tybee Beach Renourishment project in Georgia. Under the $10 million contract with the Corps, cutter suction dredge Alaska, owned and operated by the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company of Illinois, has been dredging sand from off-s
The 2015 budget approved Monday by the Decatur City Council represents a 12-month financial roadmap for the city buoyed by a recent economic upswing yet constrained by the reality of revenue challenges that hamper the city’s ability to fund a number of critical priorities. Council members voted 6-0
New flood defenses will benefit homes in the Thames Valley to the tune of nearly £300 million, the government announced yesterday. The new flood defense scheme in Oxford, just one of 162 schemes in the Thames Valley that received the green light yesterday, is worth over £100 million and will protect
