Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, together with Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Member of Parliament for Delta-Richmond East, announced last week that the Government of Canada will invest more than $46 million over the next two years at 33 harbors in British Columbia to improve safety and working co
A donor conference, aimed to raise money needed for the improvements of Mombasa Port, was held last Friday, May 22nd, in Mombasa with JICA, Development Bank of South Africa, AfDB, DFID, the World Bank, the EU Delegation to Kenya and USAID taking the part. The conference, organized by TradeMark East
Dredge Yard, a company dedicated to the market of dredge equipment and dredging technology, and Dutch-based Neptune Shipyards, in order to develop innovative products and exploit operational synergies, have just introduced EURO DREDGER 450. This piece of dredging equipment is the first in a series o
Senator Fabian Manning has announced that the Government of Canada will invest more than $9 million over the next two years in seven small craft harbors on the Burin Peninsula and in southwestern Newfoundland. These harbor improvement projects will provide a safer and more efficient working environm
Shipping of the Dredger First Global Logistics and Europe Cargo, both members of Project Cargo Network, have recently collaborated on the project cargo shipment of a dredger and its equipment from Alexandria to Antwerp. Busy Start of 2015 for DEME DEME (AvH 60.40%) realized an economic […]
Dredging operations at the Murray Mouth, which began on January 9th, are in full swing and on track for completion this summer. The dredgers, currently operating in the Tauwitchere and Goolwa Channels, have so far removed over 417,000 cubic meters of sand. The Murray Mouth dredging project is design
The Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters Joint Conference 2015, organized by Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI), will be held on September 9-11, in Boston, MA. This three-day joint technical specialty conference will bring together professionals and practitioners fro
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has won an $11.5 million contract (with options) for hopper dredging of the Galveston Ship Channel, Outer and Inner Bar Channels, and Bolivar Roads to Redfish Reef in Galveston and Chambers Counties. Maintenance dredging will remove approximately 433,000 cubic yards (CY
Senator Patty Murray will on Tuesday, May 26th, join officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Port of Grays Harbor to celebrate the signing of the Project Partnership Agreement for the Grays Harbor Channel Deepening project. The agreement will allow the Army Corps to move forw
The Lamong Bay Terminal in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, was inaugurated this morning by the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. It was an historic moment for Indonesia, an important milestone in the country’s transport development program that is improving the movement of goods through its vast
A major cleanup project that starts this summer will dig up and remove decades-old contaminated sediments and other materials from Port Gamble Bay’s waters. Local residents are invited to a May 27 meeting at Hood Canal Pavilion in Port Gamble to talk with Washington Department of Ecology staff about
Kees Nederhoff, coastal engineer at Deltares has won the best paper student award for his work “Modelling the Effects of Hard Structures on Dune Erosion and Overwash”. The award was handed over to Kees during the Coastal Sediments 2015 conference, held in San Diego, CA, USA. Kees investigated the mo
CCCC Guangzhou Dredging has won the bid for the Phase 2 of the channel dredging project in Tieshan zone, Beihai Port, Guangxi. The contract, worth approx $117.8 million, includes total dredging volume of 24 million cubic meters and a construction period of 9 months. With a full length of some 18.7 k
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has agreed to dredge the full six miles of the lower Cuyahoga River and the Port of Cleveland. The project started yesterday and will continue through mid-July. Sediment removed from the channel will be placed into confined disposal facilities (CDFs), near Bu
