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  • Tybee Island Beach Renourishment Meeting Held

    2 December 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Officials from the City of Tybee Island (GA), the Army Corps’ Savannah District and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company personnel recently held a pre-construction kickoff meeting regarding the upcoming Tybee Island Supplemental Beach Renourishment Project. The $13.8 million renourishment deal, which will finish early in the new year, will place 1.25 million cubic yards […]

  • PHOTO: Inauguration of New Harbor in Nolhivaranfaru Island

    24 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Republic of Maldives’ President, Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, has inaugurated the new harbor in Nolhivaranfaru Island, South Thiladummadulu Atoll. During the ceremony the President unveiled the monuments placed to inaugurate the island’s new harbor. The Nolhivaranfaru Island’s harbor is 700 feet long and 250 feet wide. During this visit, the President also attended the […]

  • Brennan’s Environmental Group in Rhode Island VIDEO

    30 March 2020
    Business & Finance

     This season, good fortune shone on Brennan’s Environmental group as they procured a winter river restoration project in Rhode Island. “The general scope for this project remained along the lines of past work, where we restore river depths to facilitate and improve water quality, fish migration, but this one came with a twist; its […]

  • USA: Alexander Island Dredging Plan Presented

    3 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District has a future requirement for quote mark Earthwork and dewatering of dredged material placement area, Houston Ship Channel, DAMP Alexander Island Placement Area, Harris County, Texas. These work consists of providing materials, equipment, and labor for excavating and shaping material in order to promote drainage of placement […]

  • Funds for Delma Island Project Approved (UAE)

    27 February 2013

    The Executive Committee of Abu Dhabi Executive Council today approved funds for a designing and constructing a new port on Delma Island. The approval was given at a meeting chaired by Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Tourism and Cultural Authority (TCA) and member of the Executive Council. The project which […]

  • Extension of Comment Period for Long Island Sound

    26 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Steve Israel are calling for an extension of the public comment period for the recently released U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Draft Dredge Material Management Plan (DMMP) and the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (DPEIS). The extension of the comment period will allow stakeholders the time necessary to fully review the extensive report […]

  • Absecon Island Coastal Protection Scheme Begins

    3 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday announced that work on a project to build beaches and dunes on Atlantic County’s Absecon Island will begin next week with work in Atlantic City, followed soon thereafter by construction in Ventnor, Margate and Longport. “We are very excited to move forward with […]

  • Aurora LNG evaluating Digsby Island site

    26 November 2014

    Aurora LNG will start site evaluation for potential LNG project at Digsby Island.

  • Queen Bess Island Restoration Contract Awarded

    4 July 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has awarded the contract to restore Queen Bess Island to Pontchartrain Partners, LLC. The $9.8 million construction contract is being funded through the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Natural Resource Damages settlement administered by Louisiana’s Trustee Implementation Group. Queen Bess Island is a vital nesting habitat for colonial […]

  • Block Island Jackets Go Under Investigation

    12 April 2019
    Research & Development

    A team led by the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) is set to conduct a research project on the engineering of the jacket foundations at the U.S. Block Island offshore wind farm. The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has awarded USD 608,722 for the 28-month study of the first U.S. offshore wind commercial project. […]

  • UPDATE 2: Work recommences on Curtis Island

    23 February 2015

    Following the BOM weather warning yesterday Bechtel decided to cancel regular scheduled work across its three Curtis Island LNG projects.

  • New Sand Arrives at Bald Head Island

    22 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    The State of North Carolina and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have announced an additional $2.9 million to reimburse expenses to restore hurricane- and tropical storm-related beach damage. The funds include reimbursing the replacement of beach sand in the Village of Bald Head Island, NC. Hurricane Florence’s storm surge damaged the coastal community’s beach […]

  • Fenwick Island Beach Replenishment in Full Swing

    3 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Delaware Governor John Carney, DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin and the Army Corps’ Philadelphia District Commander Lt. Colonel Kristen N. Dahle visited recently Fenwick Island to get an update on the beach replenishment project that started last week. Earlier this year, the Corps awarded a $19.2 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) […]

  • Singapore: Reclamation Work at Jurong Island Begins

    16 January 2012

    Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) informs the shipping, harbour craft and pleasure craft communities in Singapore’s waters that Jurong Island reclamation project starts. The work will entail the removal of existing rocks, dredging and reclamation works in the working area. Shore protection works will be carried out by crane barges and dredger. Soil […]

  • Block Island Construction Starts in 9 Months

    8 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Deepwater wind provided an update on their wind farm project off the coast of Block Island at AWEA Offshore Windpower 2014 event yesterday . Jeff Grybowski, CEO of Deepwater Wind said: “We are nine months away from the installation of our first foundations.” According to some media, Grybowski has just returned from the negotiations for […]

  • Elia Requires Contractor for Belgian Artificial Island

    21 June 2013

    Elia requires a contractor to carry out study, construction and maintenance of an artificial island, Alpha, which is to be located approx. 45kms offshore from the port of Zeebrugge on the Lodewijk bank and characterised by a depth of approx. 30m LAT. The primary function of the island is the creation of a permanent and […]

  • Taiwan Firms to Invest USD 1.09bln in Island

    12 September 2011

      The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) yesterday signed letters of intent with eight China-based Taiwan firms, which are expected to invest… (chinapost) [mappress] Source: chinapost, September 12, 2011

  • BOEM Signs Hutchinson Island Sand Agreement

    18 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has signed an agreement with Martin County, Florida, and USACE’s Jacksonville District, authorizing the use of sand from federal waters as part of a hurricane and storm damage reduction project for Hutchinson Island. Benefits from the beach nourishment are expected to reduce erosion along Hutchinson Island and restore […]

  • Efforts Continue to Restore Chesapeake Bay Islands

    23 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen yesterday applauded a new agreement between the Army Corps’ Baltimore District and the Maryland Port Administration that allows for the start of final design work in the restoration of James and Barren islands–a restoration effort similar to transformative Poplar Island project. Primarily using material dredged from Baltimore […]

  • Rebuilding Poplar Island with Clean Dredged Material

    29 July 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    For the past 25 years, the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island has built island habitat in the Chesapeake Bay.  Since 1994, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, and its partners have been working to restore remote island habitat in the Chesapeake Bay by beneficially using dredged material at Poplar […]

  • Volvo Amphibious Excavator Shaping the Poplar Island

    23 April 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Maryland Environmental Service is using a Volvo EC300E amphibious excavator to restore Poplar Island, a once diminishing remote island habitat in the Chesapeake Bay, North America. Poplar Island, located 34 miles south of Baltimore, Maryland, is a national model of environmental restoration made up of the Army Corps Baltimore District and Maryland Department of Transportation’s Port […]

  • Preparations Underway for Channel Islands Harbor Dredging

    16 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, has just announced that the preparations for the Channel Islands Harbor dredging project are moving ahead. Seattle-based Manson Construction, the contractor responsible for dredging of the sand trap at Channel Islands Harbor and replenishment of the sand at Hueneme Beach, will start mobilizing his equipment next week. […]

  • PLOCAN glider concludes Macaronesia ocean mission

    7 May 2020
    Technology

    PLOCAN has collected its autonomous submarine glider near the island of Gran Canaria after sailing around 1800 km in three months. The glider sailed from Nazaré, near Lisbon, in Portugal to Taliarte, Telde, on an ocean observation and research mission in Macaronesia, as a part of the European iFADO project. The iFADO project is financed […]

  • Gulf Island sells another Texas yard

    16 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    U.S. offshore facilities fabrication company Gulf Island Fabrication has completed the sale of its North Yard facilities in Aransas Pass, Texas and certain associated equipment for $28 million.

  • Island Offshore puts off newbuild deliveries

    10 March 2015

    Norwegian shipowner Island Offshore has agreed to delay deliveries of all of its under-construction vessels at Vard, except one. In its quarterly statement, the company has said it has agreed with Vard Brevik to delay delivery of all the new building vessels with an average delay of six months, except for Island Clipper platform supply vessel which […]