Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has secured the leading experts on Environmental Dredging to host a short course on the 5 R’s of Environmental Dredging (Removal, Resuspension, Release, Residuals, and Risk). The short course will be held on June 22, 2015, at the Westin Galleria in Houston, Texas,
New HORIZONS: Boskalis’ Role in New Suez Boskalis, a leading global services provider operating in the dredging, maritime infrastructure and maritime services sectors, launched today the second edition of its magazine ‘Creating New HORIZONS’. CCCC Restructures Its Dredging Business China Communicati
Residents and business owners have ultimate peace of mind from flooding thanks to the opening of a £37 million scheme designed by Royal HaskoningDHV. The Forres (River Findhorn and Pilmuir) scheme completes the flood protection for the town of Forres which has suffered regular inundation from the Ri
Dragflow, an Italian company specialized in solid pumping solutions, has supplied a new dredger (DRH85/160E22DFHD) to Central Africa for a mineral extraction project. After the extraction, the materials (silt and sand) are on its to a washing plant which separates minerals from other elements. Since
U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline have announced over $1.6 million in federal funding from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the Rhode Island Sea Grant Program. The funds will support the development of
Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) was recently awarded the “Achievement of year 2014” award for the realization of the project, dredging the sea port “Yuzhny”. One of the most important infrastructural achievements of the previous year was the creation of the deep-water area in Black Sea at the s
Instead of raising the river levee, the Dutch national public works Rijkswaterstaat started to lower the levee along the river Rhine with 3 meter over a length of 2 km. In case of an extreme river discharge, the river will overtop the lowered levee and flood the hinterland, the Noordwaard polder. Du
Scheepswerf Gebr. Kooiman BV, a subsidiary of The Kooiman Group, has inked a contract to complete a conversion project for the trailing suction hopper dredger Ostsee. The conversion involves the replacement of dredging installation’s electrical drives with the direct diesel drives. Two jet water pum
Exide Group has returned and resumed sediment dredging activities in the Mill River in Fairfield, following the winter shutdown. The winter shut‐down occurred from mid‐December to early‐March. Exide returned to the site on March 3rd 2015, and completed remobilization activities, including restarting
It took cooperative efforts to contain and recover oil leaked from a dredger in the Storm Lake marina area Thursday, announced Iowa Department of Natural Resources. City of Storm Lake staff discovered the leak about 7 a.m. About 10 to 20 gallons of vegetable-based hydraulic oil leaked from the dredg
On March 30, 2015, Congressman Charles Boustany, Jr. MD stopped by the Port of South Louisiana to meet with port and local officials, as well as industry leaders, to discuss how he can be of assistance to further secure funding for the district. During a one-and-one meeting with Congressman Boustany
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has announced that the WEDA Pacific Chapter 2015 conference will be held in San Rafael, CA from Wednesday November 4th to Friday November 6th, 2015. Wednesday session will include Corps/Industry Meeting from 1-3 PM, Ports Meeting 1-3 PM, 2015/16 Federal Dredgi
Representatives Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus, and Grace Meng (D-Queens) yesterday announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will perform maintenance dredging of critical sandbanks in the Flushing Bay Federal Channel beginning this fall. Dredging of the
For the first time, Van Oord named a vessel at its Rotterdam head office jetty. The vessel is a water injection dredging vessel that is almost 19 m long and more than 5 m wide. Van Oord employee Ms Jacqueline Determann named the vessel Borr. Water injection dredging is a proven technique for small-s
