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BABYLON, NY —After a decade of battling erosion, the Town of Babylon’s Overlook Beach restoration will be finished Friday, according to town officials. “Work at Overlook completes today,” Ryan Bonner, Babylon’s Director of Communications, told Patch. The work is the first part of the New York Beach Erosion Control and Navigation Project, which will dredge… Read More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a $1.5 billion investment in voluntary, incentive-based conservation practices, including an estimated $95 million for projects administered by Ducks Unlimited (DU). This funding, awarded under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), will impact 55,000 acres of agricultural lands nationwide. “DU learned long ago that partnership-driven, incentive-based conservation practices… Read More
PORT FOURCHON, La. – Chett Chaisson leads a boat tour highlighting a newly-built section of marsh near Port Fourchon, the giant oil and gas service port where he serves as executive director. “Right behind this dirt berm right here is newly created land,” said Chaisson, as he pointed to a section of restored wetlands on… Read More
The City Council approves Phase 2 to begin between Tyson St. Park and Wisconsin Avenue, along with final design, engineering and environmental elements of the sand retention program OCEANSIDE — The city’s aggressive new beach sand nourishment and retention pilot program will begin at The Strand south of the Oceanside Pier. The City Council approved… Read More
It was a sunny day with hardly a cloud as Billy Painter, a bayman or hard shell clammer, went about his business on his boat in the middle of the Long Island Sound. Deep in the water, though, things weren’t quite as calm. “It’s a beautiful day weatherwise,” Painter said. “As far as clamming, it’s… Read More
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is accepting project applications for matching grant funding to help coastal cities and towns recover from hurricane damage. The deadline to submit an application is 5 p.m. on Jan. 24. The funding comes from Session Law 2023-134, which allocated $10 million to the DEQ Division of Water Resources’ Coastal Storm Damage… Read More
KANKAKEE — At times when a project is dependent upon multiple government agencies, the process can hit snags or be slowed by permit requests. That’s the case with the dredging of the Kankakee River at the boat launch at Potawatomi Park in Aroma Park. The project, paid for by a state grant, was first announced… Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry raised serious objections Thursday to a $3 billion project long hailed as key to restoring the state’s eroding coastline, decrying the growing cost and predicting dire harm to a coastal culture dependent on fishing, shrimping and oyster dredging. The Republican governor’s remarks to a Senate committee in Baton… Read More
Weeks Marine Inc., Covington, Louisiana, was awarded an $8,115,750 firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work will be performed in Palm Beach, Florida, with an estimated completion date of May 9, 2025. Fiscal 2025 civil construction funds in the amount of $8,115,750 were obligated at the time… Read More
The California Coastal Commission has greenlit a new seawall to be built along San Francisco’s coastline in a bid to protect the city’s infrastructure. The 3,200-foot-long wall, which will cost $175 million and be one of the largest construction projects in California’s history, will seek to prevent damage to the shoreline from the impact of… Read More
The maritime industry’s ambitious push towards zero-emission shipping through green corridors is gaining momentum but faces critical challenges, according to the latest “Annual Progress Report on Green Shipping Corridors 2024” released by the Getting to Zero Coalition and the Global Maritime Forum. Green shipping corridors, defined as specific trade routes where zero-emission shipping is catalyzed by… Read More
Amazon, DHL, GXO, Kuehne+Nagel, Pepsico and True Value Co. among firms announcing job cuts Layoffs continue across the freight and logistics industry, with 2,402 job cuts announced by companies in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Texas over the past three weeks. True Value Co. Hardware wholesaler True Value Co. filed for Chapter 11… Read More
Lake Erie’s coastal wetlands have expanded with the completion of a five-year shoreline restoration project in Port Clinton. According to a press release from the US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, the agency worked alongside the city of Port Clinton to restore the lake’s shoreline via the “Port Clinton Coastal Restoration Project”. The project… Read More
SANDWICH – Sandwich Officials say their $8.95 million beach nourishment project, which is currently relocating sand from Scussett Beach State Reservation to preserve Town Neck Beach and the marshes it protects, is nearing completion and is expected to wrap before Thanksgiving. The active dredge working on the project is depositing over 300,000 cubic yards of… Read More
Port Technology International (PTI) is excited to introduce the speakers and sessions for the upcoming Maritime Safety Series: Ports Edition in partnership with ICHCA. The Maritime Safety Series event will be held virtually from 3 – 4 December 2024. Several sessions will be held over two days, giving attendees the chance to hear from recognised experts… Read More