Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (November 19 – 25, 2018). Celebrating Van Oord’s 150th Anniversary Van Oord celebrated its 150th anniversary on Friday during an international symposium featuring top diplomat Christiana Figueres as guest speaker.
The President of Singapore, Mrs. Halimah Yacob, her husband Mohamed Abdullah Alhabshee, and King Willem-Alexander paid a visit to Deltares earlier this week. Discussed were the challenges associated with climate change and sea level rise. “We presented our latest study of the consequences of the ac
His Majesty of the Netherlands has conferred the right to use the designation Koninklijk (‘Royal’) on Van Oord. Jaap Smit, King’s Commissioner in the Province of Zuid-Holland, presented the certificate to Van Oord’s CEO Pieter van Oord during an international symposium at the Laurenskerk in Rotterda
Congressman Neal Dunn recently welcomed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) inclusion of the Port Panama City dredging project in their 2019 Work Plan. According to Congressman Dunn, USACE announced sufficient funding to complete the critical dredging project. The dredging will deepen the East
The Neabsco Creek dredging program in eastern Prince William County is officially underway, aiming to remove an estimated 17,000 cubic yards of silt clogging the channel. “To put that in perspective, one cubic yard of saturated silt can typically weigh up to 3,000 pounds. That means 51 million pound
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has allocated $46 million for the Jacksonville Harbor deep draft navigation project in its FY 2019 Work Plan. This comes in addition to the $50 million in federal funding directed to JAXPORT for the project over the past two fiscal years, representing a substantial f
Van Oord is marking its 150th anniversary today during an international symposium featuring top diplomat Christiana Figueres as guest speaker. In addition to climate change, the energy transition and other themes, the symposium will celebrate the history of Dutch marine engineering with the presenta
Jan De Nul was recently awarded one of the biggest dike reinforcement operations in the Netherlands. Between July 2018 and January 2019, the company’s TSHD Bartolomeu Dias will dredge 5.5 million m³ of sand for the new safety dune and connected nature area. The sand is being dredged in the North Sea
U.S. Senators for New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan issued the following statement in response to the Army Corps of Engineers’ release of their fiscal year 2019 work plan, which includes $4.6 million to move emergency dredging efforts for Hampton-Seabrook Harbor. “Dredging at Hampton-Se
A partnership between PT Bahana Galang Jaya and Dutch Dredging Solutions (DDS) presented their modular dredging spread in the Premier Best Western Panbil hotel in Batam, Indonesia, on Saturday, 17 November, 2018. PT Bahana Galang Jaya found Dutch Dredging Solutions as a partner and expert to execute
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year 2019 (FY 2019) Work Plan for the Army Civil Works program yesterday. On September 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019, Public Law 115-244, of which Division A is the Energy and Wate
A draft feasibility report with environmental assessment to address shoreline erosion and restore degraded wetland and riparian habitats along Lake Sharpe near the town of Lower Brule, SD is currently available for public review. The draft report and EA evaluates the impacts of constructing a one-mi
For the past 12 weeks, locals and visitors to Lyttelton Port had the opportunity to see one of the world’s largest dredges, the Fairway, travelling up and down the channel carrying out the port’s deepening project. Lyttelton Port Company (LPC) announced yesterday that on the weekend she left Lyttelt
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced yesterday $41.4 million for the Charleston Harbor Deepening Project in the Fiscal Year 19 Work Plan, funds that will further the progress of deepening the Charleston Harbor to 52 feet. “This funding is tremendous for the continued construction activities fo