Dredging
Redwood Dredging Starts Soon
The Redwood City navigation improvement project that will deepen the city harbor and San Bruno Shoal channels is about to begin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has signed a contract with RE Staite for channel operations and maintenance dredging. The $10.3 million scheme will start on November 15 a
Moray Council Dredger Christened
The Moray Council’s new £2.4 million dredger is to be named MV Selkie. The name was chosen by members of the council’s economic development and infrastructure committee yesterday. It was selected from a shortlist drawn up from more than 300 suggestions submitted by children from coastal schools in M
Picture of the Day: Hector in Norway
The Oslo Fairway dredging project, undertaken by a Finnish dredging equipment manufacturer and contractor, Wasa Dredging, is currently underway. The company has just released this beautiful photo from this dredging program, which shows their backhoe giant Hector during the deepening work. About 89.0
Dredging Days for Students
For young professionals and students interested in joining the world of dredging, the CEDA Dredging Days has a program of technical and social events on offer. As always, the technical content is the main event and this year offers a particularly strong program of carefully curated papers focusing o
ORN Disappointed with Tampa
Orion Marine Group (ORN) today announced preliminary results for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. During the quarter, the company bid on approximately $682 million worth of opportunities and was successful on approximately $161 million, representing an overall win rate of 24%. Also during the t
Describing the GeoPool (VIDEO)
As announced yesterday, IMS Dredge has just acquired a patent pending dewatering technology the GeoPool. The technology was invented by an IMS Versi-Dredge customer and then successfully trialed in the United States and Europe. The video describes this noninvasive, extremely efficient and affordable
Meeting Set on NJ Flood Project
The USACE, New York District, will be holding a public information session to provide a status update on the Port Monmouth Flood Control Project which will include briefing the current alignment, phases and features of the project with some visual aids. This meeting, which is being organized in part
APM Izmir Opening in 2016
With the delivery of five Rubber-Tire Gantry Cranes and two Ship-to-Shore gantry cranes capable of handling Ultra-Large Containerships of up to 16,000 TEU capacity, the new 1.3 million TEU deep-water APM Terminals Izmir facility is nearing completion in anticipation of beginning commercial operation
CSA Completes Miami Job
CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. has successfully completed the transplantation of over 115,000 seagrass plants into a newly filled dredge hole north of the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami as part of the overall environmental mitigation requirements for the deepening and widening of Miami Harbor. CSA was part
CCCC Bags Shantou Port Deal
CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co. has been awarded a major contract for the construction of container terminal in the Guang’ao zone of the Shantou Port. In late September, CCCC signed this $205 million worth deal with Shantou Port Group for the Phase Two of the 100,000t container terminal in the Guang’ao.
Mooloolaba Scheme Continues
Following installation of an underground sand pipeline along Mooloolaba Beach earlier this year, Sunshine Coast Council will start work next month to extend the underground sand barrier wall to further protect the dunes and vital vegetation. Division 4 Councillor Chris Thompson said that it was the
CPRA Receives $4M Grant
U.S. Senator David Vitter has announced that the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana (CPRA) will be receiving a grant of approximately $4 million from the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Gulf Coast Restoration for research, development, restoration and preservation of th
GPA Invests Big in Brunswick
At the annual Brunswick State of the Port event Tuesday, Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director, Curtis Foltz, discussed an ambitious capital improvement plan for Brunswick terminals. “In order to ensure efficient processing of cargo, our capacity must remain higher than current demand,” Foltz s
Final Meeting Held on Shoreham Adur Scheme
The Environment Agency recently held two final public exhibitions on Shoreham Adur tidal walls scheme. The scheme that will reduce the risk of flooding to Shoreham-by-Sea and Lancing is being developed jointly by Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Adur District Council, West Sussex