The start of the Cherry Grove canals dredging project has been postponed until the fall of 2016. The City postponed the project for one year after learning from its engineering consultants that material from other area dredging projects currently stored in the Tidewater Confined Disposal Facility (C
A flagship flood risk management scheme has been awarded to GBV, a joint venture comprising Galliford Try and Black & Veatch. By creating three kilometers of flood defenses GBV’s work will rejuvenate areas of Derby city center currently underutilized because of insufficient flood protection. “The sc
The Tahoe Keys Dredging Project is currently underway and on track to be completed by the end of May. The video, released by the laketahoeG, gives an aerial view of the operations currently undergoing at Tahoe Keys. A total of 4,200 cubic yards of material will be removed from the area with an excav
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company of Oak Brook, Illinois is continuing the south end beach replenishment project in Ocean City (NJ) that will deliver approximately 1.6 million cubic yards of sand on 2.6 miles of beach from 36th to 59th Street. Neighboring communities, Strathmere and Sea Isle, will
Shoalhaven City Council has developed a strategy to deal with increased demand from the community for improving navigation and boating safety at a number of estuarine locations within the Local Government area on the NSW South Coast. This strategy was documented in the Shoalhaven City Wide Dredging
This week’s Highlights bring you very interesting stories from Van Oord, DEME, Liebherr and Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik, news stories that were the most read on Dredging Today this week. Without further ado, here are the news that marked this week in dredging industry: Exceptional Year for Va
APM Terminals hosted a celebration attended by The Netherlands’ Monarch King Willem-Alexander, and 500 senior representatives from the global shipping industry and world governments in honor of the official opening of the new APM Terminals Maasvlakte II Rotterdam facility, the world’s most technolog
Dredging of Peel marina and the transportation of silt to the temporary storage facility at Poortown will continue this Saturday. The dredging and haulage contractors and Department of Infrastructure staff will be operating to a similar timetable as weekdays. Dredging is scheduled to start at 07:30a
Eko Atlantic City in Nigeria is one of the most ambitious real estate developments in Africa. The new city is being built on Lagos’ Bar Beach – on land that is reclaimed from the sea. The City is being built in six phases that will ultimately result in the creation of 9 km² of prime land, […]
The Maritime and Port Authority Singapore (MPA) and the Joint Venture comprising of Dredging International Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. – Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. today officially signed a $1.8 billion worth Tuas Terminal Phase 1 contract. The Joint Venture will be responsible for the construction of 8.
VolkerStevin has been awarded a £34 million design and build contract for the reconstruct of jetty at Her Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) that will house the new Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers. The existing Middle Slip jetty, originally built in the 1920’s, has seen severa
FKAB Marin Design, Sweden, has just released a video about one of their latest designs, the Dredger NOSPER – No Split Engine Room. After several years of designing for the dredging industry, where they have created both pure split hopper barges, trailer suction dredgers with bottom doors as well as
Construction works on the second phase of a major £36 million coast protection scheme in Tendring are now in full swing with trailing suction hopper dredger Sospan Dau blowing sand across the location. Phase one of the project between Holland Haven to Fernwood Avenue was recently completed, with the
Manson Construction Co. of Seattle, Washington, has been awarded a $4.2 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District for pipeline dredging of the Sabine Pass Channel Reach of the Sabine-Neches Waterway in Jefferson County, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The contract