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The Panama Canal, a vital passageway that moves 6 percent of the world’s maritime commerce, will extend transit restrictions due to drought-induced low water levels. Canal authorities first announced restrictions this year, creating a backlog of vessels waiting to cross. But on Thursday, those restrictions were extended for at least 10 additional months. “We are currently… Read More
Vilano Beach Renourishment UPDATE +++++ USACE Jacksonville has begun pumping sand on Vilano Beach as its 2023-2024 renourishment cycle gets under way. The crew has begun beach fill at the northern end of the project area and will move south; see this week’s progress map for projected dates per section. Operations will be under way… Read More
The Mississippi River is just part of life here, so much so that perhaps we do not often think much about living on one of the great rivers of the world. Its broad avenue of commerce has nurtured this region and the nation for centuries, dating back to the days of dugout canoes. So while the cost… Read More
A team of scientists recently toured Dunkirk’s Lake Erie shoreline, marking the start of planning for actions to ease wave action and sediment accumulation. The scientists from Proof Project LLC and Anchor QEA toured the lakefront from the water. They used the Dunkirk Fire Department’s new boat, piloted by Capt. Gary Katta. Mike Przybycien, deputy… Read More
There has been movement on the restoration and development of the long-closed Wildwood landfill, City Administrator Steve O’Connor said, Aug. 9, beginning the process of removing what he called an embarrassment for a shore community. “How can we have an open landfill in a waterfront community?” he said. The project, he said, would become a… Read More
On Saturday, August 19th, one of the Army Corps of Engineers dredges made it to Ocean City. By Monday, August 21st, the dredge was out in full force, scooping up material from the inlet. The Army Corps tells WBOC the dredge is expected to stay in the inlet until August 30th. For years, fisherman and… Read More
A wetland restoration project is now underway in the 400-acre former herding area known as Ackerson Meadow, which was controversially added to Yosemite National Park in 2016, the National Park Service announced this week. Ackerson Meadow is on the west edge of Yosemite, on Evergreen Road in Tuolumne County, between Highway 120 and the entrance… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has launched a massive undertaking: a $4.5 billion project to rebuild wetlands on the disappearing Barren Island in the mid-Chesapeake Bay. Barren and its neighbor, James Island, have withered away to small spits of land. They’ll serve as the long-term site for dredged material from the Port of Baltimore’s… Read More
One of the most critically eroded coastlines on the First Coast is getting some relief. A beach renourishment project is underway for a three-mile stretch of Vilano Beach. A dredge is offshore with a massive tube running up to the shore and filling the berm back in. Once the sand gets ashore, heavy machines are pushing… Read More
An increasing number of climate-driven extreme weather events is taking its toll on the world’s major shipping routes — and El Niño could make matters worse. El Niño — or “the little boy” in Spanish — marks the unusual warming of the surface waters in the tropical central and eastern Pacific Ocean. It is a naturally occurring climate pattern… Read More
Environmental groups are appealing a ruling that allows a $58.7 million dredging project in Puerto Rico’s San Juan Bay to move forward. Lawyers for three organizations filed a notice of appeal in the federal District of Columbia Court on Monday, seeking judicial review of last month’s ruling favoring the government in their lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…. Read More
HOUSTON, Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States, announced today the award for the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project Marine Dredging and Disposal contract. Great Lakes has been contracted by Bechtel Energy, Inc. (“Bechtel”),… Read More
AMSC ASA (“AMSC“) and Maritime Partners, LLC today announced that AMSC and Project Merchant Acquisition LLC (the “PM Acquisition“), a newly-formed company owned and controlled by a fund managed by Maritime Partners, LLC, have signed a share purchase agreement (the “SPA“) for PM Acquisition’s purchase of American Tanker Holding Company, Inc. (the “ATHC“), a wholly-owned subsidiary… Read More
For years, boaters have griped about the public boat launches near Lock No. 1 on the Pearl River Navigational Canal. Now, construction has started on a new launch that will sit alongside the existing ramp. The $600,000 project includes new concrete ramps north and south of the lock, asphalt roads and a gravel parking area — upgrades St. Tammany… Read More
A $44 million project to protect the Montauk Point Lighthouse and the deteriorating bluff surrounding the historic landmark in Suffolk County is now complete. The structure is located on the easternmost point of Long Island and was authorized in 1792 by the Second Congress under President George Washington and completed in November 1796. Led by the Montauk Historical Society,… Read More