VIDEO: Panama Canal Expansion – January 2015 The largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction, the Panama Canal Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks, doubling the waterway’s capacity. Van Oor
Nautilus Minerals Inc. has announced that the mechanical and hydraulic assembly of its second of three Seafloor Production Tools, the Collecting Machine, has been completed at Soil Machine Dynamics’ facility at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and the commissioning of the Collecting Machine systems has now s
Kongsberg Mesotech’s M3 Bathy System, an entry-level survey system for shallow-water bathymetric applications, is now officially designated compliant with IHO S-44, a reference standard for companies engaged in hydrographic surveying, marine engineering or nautical charting. The IHO compliance consi
BASF, a leading supplier of polyurethane solutions for systems, specialties and polyurethane (PU) basic products, has released a video about Elastocoast and how it provides effective coastal protection with revetments of polyurethane. Revetments with Elastocoast are a new and innovative coastal prot
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has just visited Portsmouth where he set out the government’s next steps in building the most modern navy in the world. On a visit to the home of the Royal Navy, the Chancellor announced a new national shipbuilding strategy in advance of a decision later
An initiative to provide sanitary sewer systems to 40 villages in the southern district of New Chimbote was being delayed by a series of overfilled treatment/oxidation ponds. Excess soil accumulation combined with high sludge levels reduced the ponds’ original design capacities and created a toxic f
The month of January begins a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC). Incorporated in May 1965, the association brought together 60 participants of 38 international dredging contractors from 12 countries. Dredging h
Van Oord and joint venture partner Royal Boskalis Westminster have won a major land reclamation contract in Indonesia. The contract, awarded by the PT Muara Wisesa Samudra, includes design and construction of the artificial island under the Dredging and Land Development Project for Pluit City off th
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is ready to mark the beginning of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at 1 Old Fort Jackson Road in Savannah. The recovery of the CSS Georgia ironclad from the floor of the Savannah River will be the first action undertaken in this pha
Trimble has introduced the Trimble® SPS356 DGNSS Beacon Receiver specifically designed for marine construction. This marine receiver allows contractors to achieve sub-meter accuracy using DGNSS or MSK Beacon station corrections for robust, multi-constellation positioning. The receiver is ideal for a
An emergency dredging operation of the Lamma Power Station Navigation Channel has officially started. A small fleet of vessels, including two grab dredgers, four hopper barges, two tugs and one survey boat, is deployed in the area, according to the Hong Kong Marine Department. The number of vessels
DEME’s Dredging International has started the land reclamation works of the Phase II project on the Maldives island Hulhumalé. The project will add another 240 ha of new land to the island. The works include borrowing offshore sand and pumping it ashore. The required volume, around 6 million m³ of s
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, is already preparing for the 2015 construction season. In 2015, the Cleveland and Oswego harbor breakwaters will be repaired using dolos that are currently being constructed. A dolos is a concrete block in a complex geometric shape used in great nu
In order to remove sand from seabed and allow the oil pipes maintenance, DRAGFLOW has delivered a specifically designed machine to one of the largest contractors in the oil and gas industry. “We attached 2 Hydraulic Pumps HY85 to a shell that we designed and created, to cover the pipe (diameter is a