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Dredge Liberty Island ready for Emerald Isle
The hopper dredge Liberty Island is on schedule to arrive in Emerald Isle on February 20 to begin dredging, holding, sailing and pumping sand on the beach at Reach 1, the far west of the Carteret County beach town, as part of Phase III of the post-Florence Renourishment Project. The Liberty Island w
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Restoring Ridgley’s Cove with dredged material
Sediment dredged from shipping channels leading to the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore is helping restore the underutilized Ridgley’s Cove park property in Baltimore City into a multiuse recreation area with walking trails. Restoration of Ridgley’s Cove, located behind Horseshoe Casino and ad
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Jetty stone on its way to South Florida
J.E. McAmis crews are currently receiving the first loads of jetty stone at their material handling facility at Port Everglades (Ft. Lauderdale), Florida. Stone is being railed from Georgia and then trucked and finally barged to two separate U.S. Army Corps of Engineers jetty projects in South Flori
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CHEC wraps up Bethioua works
All construction work for the Bethioua Port Mining Terminal Project in Algeria was successfully completed by China Communications Construction Company’s subsidiary CHEC recently. The facility is built as an iron ore undocking terminal, the company said. With a 360m long berth, it will allow vessels
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Port of Corpus Christi channel improvement VIDEO
The Port of Corpus Christi has just released this beautiful video about their channel improvement project. The Port of Corpus Christi is the third most profitable port in the United States and is the second-largest export gateway of crude oil. The channel itself is 36-miles long, with 30+ ship berth
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Dharanboodhoo Harbor development moves forward
Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC) today announced the latest update regarding the F. Dharanboodhoo Harbor development program. According to MTCC, work on the design and build of F. Dharanboodhoo Harbor is well underway, with an overall 50% project progress so far. The installation w
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Work on Sokhna’s Second Container Terminal complete
After 1,037 days of hard work, Sokhna’s Second Container Terminal Project, undertaken by China Communications Construction’s subsidiary CHEC in the Suez Canal Special Economic Zone of Egypt, has been wrapped up. This port hydraulic project mainly included dredging, backfilling, construction of the w
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Terminal 5 project faces slight delay
The Northwest Seaport Alliance Terminal 5 Modernization Project is a critical component to expanding the company’s cargo-handling capabilities. Due to the complex nature of this large infrastructure construction combined with unforeseen circumstances, this project is now seeing schedule impacts, acc
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MGN successfully completes Mackay Harbor work
MGN Civil Pty Ltd has successfully wrapped up their first project in 2021. The Queensland based company was engaged by North Queensland Bulk Ports (NQBP) to stabilize a failing section of the western revetment area within Mackay Harbor. 20,000t of various classes of rock were used to complete the pr
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Cameron Meadows Marsh Creation project kicks off
Construction activity is underway on the Cameron Meadows Marsh Creation and Terracing project located in Cameron Parish, northwest of Holly Beach, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) informs. This restoration project will address a large area of marsh that has degraded
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NQBP to build new tug berth facility
The Port of Mackay and North Queensland Bulk Ports announced today that works will commence on a new $8.5 million tug berth facility. According to Julieanne Gilbert, Member for Mackay, the tug berth project was the latest, and the largest, in a series of significant investments totalling $17 million
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Cagayan River dredging starts
Department of Transportation Secretary, Arthur Tugade, joined Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary, Roy Cimatu, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary, Mark Villar, and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary, Silvestre Bello III, in launchin
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Okeechobee Waterway dredge update
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a contract for maintenance dredging of the Okeechobee Waterway in sections of the Saint Lucie River in Martin County. “Work began last month 1.6 miles east of the Roosevelt Bridge (US1) and is expected to continue westward continuing along the St. Lu
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Coastalock on display in San Diego
ECOncrete Tech LTD and the Port of San Diego are teaming up to debut one of the most sustainable coastal armoring on the market – Coastalock. The Coastalock system, developed by Israel-based company ECOncrete, comprises interlocking hollow units made of proprietary bio-enhancing concrete that provid