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USACE Detroit District Reports Busy 2019
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District recently completed a busy fiscal year 2019 awarding 204 contracts totaling nearly $75 million. This includes 28 construction and dredging contracts worth almost $57 million. Apart from completing projects in 2019, the Corps also announced that they
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MTCC MD Tours TSHD Mahaa Jarraafu
Adam Azim, the Managing Director at Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC), toured yesterday the company’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Mahaa Jarraafu during her work on a land reclamation project in K. Maafushi in the Maldives. According to MTCC, the project will bring a soluti
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Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (January 20 – 26, 2020). All Set for King’s Lynn Dredging A maintenance dredging program, aimed for the safety of shipping within the enclosed Docks King’s Lynn in Norfolk, is set to begin this week, King’s Lynn C
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Environment Minister Rebecca Pow Tours Wallasea Island Project
Environment Minister Rebecca Pow visited the Wallasea Nature Reserve yesterday to see first-hand the extensive efforts to help the coast and its wildlife adapt in the face of climate change. The Minister was touring the Essex site ahead of the introduction of the landmark Environment Bill in the nea
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Phase II of the Carteret County Renourishment Project Starting Soon
Phase II of the Carteret County Post Florence Renourishment Project is scheduled to begin in the first week of February, the Shore Protection Office reports. According to the officials, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) plans to mobilize land- and water-based pipe, heavy equipment, personnel, etc. th
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Benelux Consortium Eyes Stake in IHC
A consortium of marine companies and investors from around the Benelux is considering taking a stake in ailing shipbuilder Royal IHC, newspapers FD and De Tijd reported. The FD cited banking sources as saying the consortium was led by Luxembourg-based investor Hal Trust, together with dredging firms
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Kokkola Dredging VIDEO Update
The Port of Kokkola Ltd and the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency VAYLA have just presented the latest video update from the ongoing Kokkola Harbor and Fairway Deepening Project in Finland. Under the contract, signed in late July 2018, Wasa Dredging is responsible for dredging of the harder ma
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VIDEO: Hingham Harbor Dredging 2019
Harbor Media, the Hingham community’s media hub, has just released this amazing video named Hingham Harbor Dredging Project 2019. In the video, Harbor Master Ken Corson meets Cashman Dredging Superintendent Corey Welch and taking a look at what’s it like to live and work on a a dredge. This tour pro
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Kootenay Dredging Wraps Up
Dredging in the shallows of the West Arm of Kootenay Lake was completed in Fall of 2019 to avoid future service changes to the Kootenay Lake Ferry Service, the Government of British Columbia informs. During the works, the crews dredged three shallow areas in the West Arm of Kootenay Lake to ensure t
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Backhoe Dredger Woomera to Dredge Clinton Channel
Hall Contracting Pty Ltd has been engaged to undertake dredging and land reclamation works at Gladstone Harbor as part of the Clinton Vessel Interaction Project. “Our team will use backhoe dredge Woomera to widen the channel, creating safer conditions for vessels,” the company said in their latest r
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TSHD Currituck Busy in Chatham
The Stage Harbor Entrance Dredging project is officially underway, according to the Town of Chatham (MA) latest news release. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) hopper dredge Currituck arrived in Chatham late Sunday afternoon, January 19th, and began maintenance dredging on Monday, January 20
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Platte River Breach Closed
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, has completed the initial breach repair along the right bank of the Platte River, just upstream of the confluence of the Platte River with the Missouri River, on Tuesday. This approximately 300-foot long breach formed during the March 2019 flooding a
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LSU Opts for Brailsford & Dunlavey Joint Venture
The Louisiana State University (LSU) Real Estate and Facilities Foundation, an affiliate of the LSU Foundation, has selected a joint venture of Brailsford & Dunlavey and CSRS as the project adviser for the University Lakes Project. The selection was made through the University Lakes Project Manageme
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EPA Announces Plan to Advance Detroit River Cleanup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed a $2.5 million agreement to design a project that will remediate contaminated sediment and create a substantial new habitat at the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park, a waterfront park being developed in Detroit. The contaminated sediment i