A study to determine ways to address marine navigation at the Seagirt Loop channel in Baltimore Harbor was initiated earlier this week. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, and the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA) stand behind the
Construction works have officially begun for the Côte d’Ivoire Terminal (CIT), Abidjan’s second container terminal which is expected to become operational at the end of 2021.
Belgian dredging specialist DEME ticked off another milestone with its LNG-fueled cutter suction dredger (CSD) Spartacus.
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has reportedly won an arbitration ruling in a long-standing dispute between ACP and Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), a consortium that constructed the Expanded Panama Canal.
Looking at current developments, Navingo has had to adapt to a changing reality and its customer wishes more and faster than ever before in order to realise a full-value Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) and an effective Navingo Career Event (NCE). Therefore, both events will continue o
Port of Hamburg, Germany, has just announced that the fairway adjustment of the Elbe River is on its home stretch. In the final stage this week, the cutter-head suction dredger (CSD) Fernão de Magalhães – owned by Jan De Nul – will do the remaining work on the Elbe river bed. According to the port,
The Panama Canal, an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, opened 106 years ago and reshaped world trade forever. Since then, the waterway has seen over a million vessels transit its locks, and come to serve 144 trade routes that connect 1,700 p
DEME’s vessels Neptune, D’Artagnan, and Bonny River have been deployed on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project, with some of the work now underway at the site located some 12 kilometres off the coast of the Guérande peninsula in France. The company’s cutter suction dredger D’Artagnan and trailing
A maintenance dredging project in the Coos Bay harbor from River Miles twelve to fifteen, aimed to remove approximately 1,000,000 cubic yards of material from these areas, is currently underway. Dredging in this section of the Federal Navigation Channel was also conducted throughout the summer of 20
US company Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has secured a subcontract from engineer Bechtel for the third jetty at Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG export terminal in Louisiana. The subcontract involves dredging works for the third marine berth at Sabine Pass. Cheniere is expanding its five-train 25 mtpa facilit
The Vox Amalia, Van Oord’s latest arrival in the fleet, has successfully completed its first dredging assignments outside the Netherlands. In June, the energy-efficient trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) set course for Turkey. In Akkuyu, the vessel dredged about 250,000 cubic meters of material.
The labor market is on lockdown since the start of the corona crisis, however the first signs of change are starting to appear.
Monaco’s 38,000 residents currently live on just over 2 square kilometres of land – a surface area smaller than New York’s Central Park. With an estimated 2,700 people expected to move to Monaco by 2026, the issue of space has become critical. For more than 150 years, Monaco has adapted its urban pl
Denmark has given a go-ahead for the development of the energy islands, and the second of the three 1 GW offshore wind farms proposed in the Energy Agreement 2018. The 1 GW offshore wind project will be developed at the Hesselø zone in the Baltic Sea and is expected to be commissioned by 2027. The [
