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Boskalis’ project in Finland wins prestigious award
Boskalis’ colleagues at Boskalis Terramare, together with their client and project partners, have been awarded the Project of the Year 2022 award by the Finnish Project Management Association for the deepening of the Vuosaari Channel in the Port of Helsinki. They deepened the channel from 11 to 13 m
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Biden-Harris: More than $703M for improving port infrastructure
The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced more than $703 million to fund 41 projects in 23 states and one territory that will improve port facilities through the Maritime Administration’s Port Infrastructure Development Program. The funding, made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure
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Chattogram dredger capsize: Remaining four bodies recovered
Bodies of remaining four people who went missing after a sand-extraction dredger capsized in Mirsharai upazila of Chittagong because of tidal waves caused by Cyclone Sitrang have been recovered. With the latest development, the bodies of all missing people have been recovered and the number of death
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Svitzer expands fleet with three newbuilds
Svitzer, a towage provider and part of A.P. Moller-Maersk, will take delivery of two new ASD tugboats and one workboat and thereby further modernising and expanding the fleet in the Americas region. The workboat – Svitzer Moín – is a survey vessel, which will service Svitzer’s operation in Costa Ric
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Maintaining and protecting the Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is one of the busiest waterways in the United States. Of its 4,267 miles of navigable channels (1/3 of U.S. inland waterways) 681 million tons of cargo move on the system each year with transportation cost savings of $12.5 billion. “Maintaining and protecting the Mississippi Ri
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Bodies of four workers found in sunken dredger off Chattogram, four still missing
Dead bodies of four people have been recovered after a dredger capsized in coast adjacent to Mirsarai Economic Zone in Chattogram, Bangladesh, due to the impact of cyclonic storm ‘Sitrang’. The dredger capsized on Tuesday morning with eight workers, risingbd.com reports. “We recovered three bodies o
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Derrickboat Kolber joins USACE Buffalo District’s Floating Plant fleet
In a ceremony led by USACE Buffalo District Deputy District Commander Maj. Lyle Milliman and Deputy District Engineer Dave Romano, held at the Buffalo District’s Ohio Area Office in Cleveland yesterday, Ohio, the Derrickboat Kolber was officially christened. “This boat you see before you is 160 feet
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New HID’s CSD boosts Changjiang River dredging program
HID Dredging, a Chinese manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, has delivered a cutter suction dredger (CSD) with 4500m3/h for the Changjiang River dredging project. “In addition to the delivery of dredging equipment, we will also supply a spare parts package, assembly, commissioning and ex
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Beach nourishment continues along the Delaware Bay
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is set to continue beach nourishment along the Delaware Bay. Under the plan, the Pickering Beach nourishment project and others in Delaware Bay communities to be undertaken this year by DNREC will be funded in large part by the A
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USACE hosts christening ceremony for Derrickboat Kolber
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, will host a christening ceremony for the Derrickboat Kolber at the USACE Ohio Areas Office, Monday October 24 at 11am. Following the ceremony, public tours of the vessel will be available until 4 p.m., said USACE. This new derrickboat is 160 feet l
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Damen introduces compact dredging equipment at Bauma
Damen will present the DOP150 – the smallest submersible dredge pump of the series – at the Bauma event in Germany next week. Commenting the news, Mr Harrold van Vliet, sales representative at Damen, explains: “The compact dedicated slurry pump has been designed for mounting on an excavator.” “This
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Land & Water: The first company in UK to invest in Hybrid Long Reach Excavators
With an internal commitment to becoming carbon net zero by 2030, Land & Water has become the first company in the UK to invest in brand new Kobelco SK210 Hybrid 15m Long Reach Tracked Excavators. This specialist plant will add to the firms existing sustainable fleet which aims to reduce the carbon f
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Sandusky Harbor dredging in full swing
Over the last couple of weeks, Michigan-based Luedtke Engineering has been busy dredging the federal navigation channel in Sandusky Harbor, Ohio. Luedtke began dredging Sandusky Harbor on September 18. Due to shallow water levels, they have had to extend the sediment pump-out pipeline. “Boaters shou
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Hannibal Parks and Recreation opts for Mud Cat
Mud Cat just commissioned a brand-new MC 115D dredge at Hannibal Marina on the Mississippi River. The MC 115D will be used for annual maintenance dredging of the marina after the boating season as mandated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The MC 115D is pumping river sediments 1,687 ft. (514m) a