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Webuild consortium wins €928M Genoa Breakwater Project
An Italian consortium – led by Webuild – has won the contract to build a new breakwater for the Port of Genoa. The consortium also includes partners Fincantieri Infrastructure Opere Marittime, Fincosit and Sidra in a project valued in the client budget at a combined €928 million. Webuild has a 40% s
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EBRD lends €100 million for Port of Gdansk development
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has joined a group of banks that will finance the construction of a third deep-water container terminal in Poland’s Port of Gdansk on the Baltic Sea. The €100 million EBRD loan is part of a €863.5 million financing package put together by a
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Bradmoor Island restoration underway
The Bradmoor Island Tidal Habitat Restoration Project is currently underway, California Department of Water Resources (DWR) said. This very important restoration program is set to ensure climate change resiliency for the future of Suisun Marsh. At the moment, DWR crews are breaching levees to restor
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Eastern View: Protecting Great Ocean Road coastal areas
Work is underway at Eastern View to protect the foreshore and Great Ocean Road from coastal erosion, DELWP BarwonSouthWest said. “Machinery is on-site and moving around, so we’re asking everyone to follow all signage and stay safe, including keeping dogs on leashes in the area,” said the organizatio
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Southwest Shipyard to build new crane barge for USACE
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District in concert with the Philadelphia District and the Marine Design Center recently awarded a $11.4 million contract to Southwest Shipyard LP of Houston, Texas, for a new crane barge on the St. Marys River. “The new crane barge will perform critical loc
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JDN’s water injection dredger Cosette hits the water
Jan De Nul Group and Neptune Marine today held a launching ceremony for the new water injection dredger Cosette near Dordrecht in the Netherlands. This newbuild is a sister vessel to the Pancho, delivered earlier this year. The design of both vessels is based on an existing vessel design from the Ne
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Environment Agency: £12M Exmouth tidal defence scheme wraps up
The Environment Agency and East Devon District Council have spent £12 million of Government funding, building new and improving existing defences at The Royal Avenue, Camperdown Creek and The Esplanade. The flood risk to residents and 400 businesses in the area has been reduced from a 4% chance of f
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Boosting resilience of coastal communities in Fiji
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $750,000 grant for an ongoing ADB-supported technical assistance program which is reducing the vulnerability of Fijian coastal communities to the impacts of climate change. “The project is being supported by the Ireland Trust Fund for Building Climate
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Land & Water reaches milestone at Queen Pool project
The wet civil engineering firm Land & Water has reached the milestone of 100,000m3 being dredged from Queen Pool at Blenheim Palace in Oxford. Queen Pool, which was created in 1715, had become heavily silted putting its extensive eco-system at risk. Land & Water started works earlier this year, maki
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Van Oord ready for the Dublin Port campaign
Van Oord and Dublin Port Company (DPC) are about to begin work on a Capital Dredging campaign in order to create two new riverside berths. As disclosed by DPC, the contractor intends to carry out loading and dumping at sea of dredged material arising from capital dredging as part of the MP2 Project
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Finalising design requirements for Wamberal Beach terminal protection structures
The Wamberal Beach Terminal Protection Structure Engineering Design Requirements, which outlines minimum engineering specifications and details for coastal erosion protection works in the Wamberal embayment, has been finalised and adopted following a review of 247 formal submissions received during
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Maintenance dredging at Newburyport Harbor moves ahead
H&L Contracting, LLC of Long Island, NY will be performing maintenance dredging of the Newburyport Harbor in the following days, the City of Newburyport said. The project will consist of hydraulically dredging approximately 226,000 cubic yards of material from the two entrance channels at the mouth
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Lake Redwood dredging nears completion
As of September 27, just over 5 months after beginning the dredging project, the JF Brennan Company has reached 90% completion of the 657,329 cubic yard bid quantity of sediment to be removed from Lake Redwood. The dredger Michael B. continues to work 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, Redwood-Cotto
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Biden’s Law to invest $845M in USACE studies and projects
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works has announced additional U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studies, projects, and programs funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. These actions will invest more than $845 million to address urgent issues facing Americans, i