Minister for Ports, Luke Donnellan, and the Member for Williamstown, Wade Noonan, today visited the Seaworks Maritime Precinct to hear firsthand from the community about future plans for the site. The Labor Government is providing $3 million to provide much needed upgrades and new facilities to the
After seven years of construction, the Expanded Panama Canal is now officially open for business. The official inauguration was held yesterday, June 26th 2016, with the Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela, Panama Canal Administrator and CEO Jorge L. Quijano, together with Canal employees, heads
François De Keuleneer, an environmental engineer at Dredging International NV, an operating company of DEME Group, won the 2016 IADC Young Author Award at WODCON XXI in Miami, Florida. De Keuleneer’s research paper, “Luxeal – The Easy to Handle Aquitard” that won him the prize was written with two o
The steering group for the Sidmouth and East Beach Management Plan (BMP) has met to discuss the shortlist options as part of a consultation process to reach a preferred option to manage coastal and flood defenses for Sidmouth seafront and East Beach. The meeting took place on Thursday 16 June 2016 a
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (June 20-26, 2016). Weeks Marine Completes Navarre Beach Renourishment Project Weeks Marine has completed works on the segment four of the Navarre Beach Renourishment Project in Santa Rosa County, Florida. VIDEO
The Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders has voted to authorize the advertisement of bids for dredging and aeration work on Barbour’s Pond in Garret Mountain Reservation. Dredging Barbour’s Pond is part of a plan to allow canoes and paddle boats to once again cross the 14-acre body of water fo
The town of Usedom, represented by the Usedom-Süd, has just released a tender for the harbor dredging/wreck removal works. The works will include the creation of moorings in the harbor area and in order to create the required minimum water depths, extensive dredging works are to be carried out as we
Welcome to the first DredgingToday.com Podcast, with our host Rosie Moth of RedMeters.com. In this episode we will be discussing last week’s World Dredging Congress & Exposition (WODCON) dredging conference with industry experts: Jay Wise of Kruse Integration, Steve Rutherford of Caterpillar Industr
Royal IHC has been busy for the last couple of days performing sea trials for the 21,028m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) JUN YANG 1. The vessel, being built for CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co., Ltd (GDC), is scheduled for completion and delivery by the end of July 2016. This is the 19th vessel
The City of Destin Government has just released the latest photo from the dredging work on the harbor channel, which is currently underway. Shoaling near the tip of Norriego Point has caused the channel to narrow, the City said. Panhandle Machine and Supply, Inc. from Blountstown, Fla. was contracte
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has commenced a federal environmental assessment for the proposed Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir Project, located approximately 15 kilometers west of Calgary, Alberta. The Agency is inviting public to comment on which aspects of the environment may be af
Dredging and land reclamation operations at Thinadhoo are now wrapped up, according to the Maldives’ Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure. Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) HAM 318 started dredging and land reclamation program in the Thinadhoo area on June 1. This scheme resulted i
The City of Renton, WA, is currently conducting a maintenance dredging project on the Cedar River to prevent flooding of the surrounding community. The King County Flood Control District is funding over $13 million for the overall project and is providing approximately $7.5 million to fund the proje
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer has urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release the draft report and immediately thereafter hold public community forums regarding their plans for the Fire Island to Montauk Point (FIMP) project. “The Army Corps should release the draft plan and engage with the
