Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux’ water injection dredger (WID) L’Ostrea was baptized in a naming ceremony last week. MOTAS Dredging Solutions was responsible for the engineering and delivery of the complete dredging installation including the dredging control and monitoring system. For this project,
Castor Marine has been selected by Jan De Nul Group to provide global VSAT internet and Iridium L- Band services to their entire fleet of almost 80 dredgers, offshore construction vessels, crane vessels and (environmental) support vessels. Since all vessels are operational around the globe, Castor M
In this In Focus column, we report on initiatives that reduce the ecological footprint of the offshore energy and maritime industry.
Last Friday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards joined the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) to announce the completion of massive restoration efforts on Trinity-East Island. The island was restored as part of the Terrebonne Basin Barrier Island and Beach Nourishment project, whic
Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University has released this very interesting video named ‘Why do these Dutch dunes have gaps? The play between wind, sand and biodiversity in Bloemendaal’. Coastal geomorphologist Prof. Gerben Ruessink (Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University) studies the natural a
The dredging works are due to start on the Harwich Haven Channel Deepening Project. On or around September 30, the trailer suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Sospan Dau will start dredging the main channel, disposing material to the beneficial disposal schemes at Horsey Island and Mersea Harbour. The dre
This week saw a plethora of energy transition-related news across the offshore energy industry with updates telling of alternative deployments for offshore drilling rigs, new projects combining offshore wind and hydrogen, the urgency to decarbonise the shipping sector, and more.
French engineering company Technip Energies and Abu Dhabi-based National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) have signed a deal to advance the energy transition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other countries in the MENA region.
USACE Commanding General and 55th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, signed the Chief’s Report for the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Study (The Coastal Texas Study) last week. This is a six-year, $20.63 million comprehensive study led by USACE in partnership with their
Port of London Authority (PLA) has just announced the first Thames call for the marine aggregate dredger CEMEX Go Innovation. “The vessel called at CEMEX Northfleet and benefited from the £3.5 million new dry discharge system installed under our PLA Investment Plan to secure Thames river traffic and
After six years of construction, the new Port of Calais was officially inaugurated on September 9, 2021. Considered as one of the largest European port infrastructure projects of the decade, the new port was inaugurated in the presence of Louis Le Franc, prefect of Pas-de-Calais; Xavier Bertrand, pr
The USACE Buffalo District is building a beneficial use of dredged material placement area to handle about 400,000 cubic yards of dredged material off the Ashtabula Harbor East Breakwater. “We’re placing 1,500 linear feet of stone to create a long-term solution to dredged material management, which
Five Damen CSD500s have been successfully shipped to the province of Tabasco, in southern Mexico, the Dutch shipbuilding company said. According to Damen, the dredgers have already started the dredging operations, contributing to an enormous river maintenance job. The Mexican government recently ann
New York Governor, Kathy Hochul, yesterday announced the start of in-water construction of the Living Breakwaters, a $107 million effort that will provide physical, social, and ecological resiliency for the South Shore of Staten Island. Under the project, the 2,400 linear feet of breakwaters – consi
