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State and local officials attended a ceremony today in Monmouth County to launch a long-awaited project to make New Jersey boating channels more navigable. A $7.7 million dollar project funded by the state, county, and local towns will dredge the Shark River. Neptune resident Wayne Fey says Superstorm Sandy added to silt that’s been building… Read More
Crews salvaged dredging equipment from the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after it fell off a barge in stormy seas last week. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
A major dredging project is about to get under way near South Padre Island. Crews are about to dredge the Brazos Island harbor jetty and entrance channels. The project will make sure the 23-mile long channel is 42-feet deep by 300-feet wide. South Padre Island will benefit from the dredging. All of the dredged sand… Read More
The Lake Havasu Marine Association dredged the lake on New Year’s Eve last year, working until 10 p.m. If they didn’t finish on New Year’s Eve, they would have to wait another six months before trying again. The Marine Association’s dredger managed to complete most, but not all of the job on New Year’s Eve,… Read More
Local residents may have noticed a huge mechanical crane working where the Vallejo Ferry Terminal dry dock use to sit. Not to worry, just some routine maintenance. Ernest Sanchez, public information and marketing manager with the San Francisco Bay Ferry said the ferry terminal basin is being dredged for standard maintenance. “The basin has silted… Read More
The Encinitas and Solana Beach city councils next week will consider environmental approval of their joint 50-year sand project. Under the plan, offshore sand would regularly be spread on local beaches with the goal of protecting infrastructure and coastal access. Solana Beach City Manager Greg Wade said environmental impact documents don’t anticipate that the project… Read More
Maintenance dredging of portions of the Federal navigation channel in Duxbury Harbor in Duxbury, Mass., will be completed under the terms of a $4,994,560.00 contract recently awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. Work will be accomplished by Cashman/Burnham (C/B) Joint Venture of Quincy, Mass. Dredging is scheduled to start in… Read More
The infill process at Alexandra Dock is now coming to an end, informed ABP, with dry land breaching the water’s surface and providing foundations for the Siemens development, which has been dubbed Green Port Hull. The dredging campaign will allow deeper-drafted vessels to call at ports along the Humber Estuary. As well as providing material… Read More
A 50-year sand-replenishment project that would widen the beaches in Solana Beach and Encinitas by a total of 35 acres got the unanimous go-ahead from both cities in separate meetings this week. The work, overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, would create a buffer to protect the crumbling bluffs, where continued erosion threatens… Read More
As one dredge falls silent, another one is about to start up. The state Canal Corp. has applied for a permit to dredge the Champlain Canal portion of the Hudson River, an undertaking that has been on hold since 1980. The project is expected to be far smaller in scale than the General Electric dredging… Read More
Cote d’Ivoire authorities on Tuesday launched the expansion works of the Abidjan Port, a project that will transform the country’s commercial capital into the West African maritime transport hub, an official source said. The project that will cost 560 billion CFA Francs (1.12 billion U.S. dollars), 85 percent of it provided by China, will include… Read More
The Durban Harbour will undergo major maintenance to its docking sites to handle its increasing traffic of megaships, the Transnet National Port Authority has said. With massive ships now entering Durban Harbour, the ports authority said ongoing efforts had been made to address “shallow spots”. In a statement, Durban Port Manager Moshe Motlohi said: “The… Read More
The Waterfront Revitalization Committee met with the Board of Selectmen last Tuesday, seeking support for the project to be brought at Town Meeting. Committee Chairman Chris Sampson was joined by architect Stephen Kelleher when addressing the selectmen. Kelleher presented a virtual video trip along the beach and the proposed buildings and pavilion. The trip, which… Read More
Port of Durban Harbour Master, Captain Alex Miya, has reinstated a number of berths in the port back to their original permissible draughts. This follows Transnet National Ports Authority’s ongoing efforts to address shallow spots exacerbated by the size of megaships now calling at the port. Durban Port Manager, Moshe Motlohi, explained: “The vessels calling… Read More
The Port of Cleveland has taken a big step toward solving its expensive dredging responsibilities, announcing today that it sold its first load of Cuyahoga River sediment to a construction company. Great Lakes Construction Co. bought the equivalent of 300 dump truck loads of sediment from the Port and its partner — the Kurtz Bros…. Read More