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The Port of Corpus Christi had a record-breaking first half of the year moving 52.2 million tons of products between January 1 and June 30, 2018. This number exceeds the tonnage moved in the first half of 2017 by 926,000 tons – an overall two percent increase year over year. The growth can be attributed,… Read More
Some vacationers in Oak Island said they didn’t get the vacation they were hoping for this Fourth of July week. The Army Corps of Engineers started a dredging project at Oak Island and Caswell Beach in May to pump sand out of the ocean. Engineers said cargo and container ships experience difficulty coming into the… Read More
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) 250 to South Africa-based Dredging Africa. The CSD will be used to mine sand from the Ash River, just east of Bethlehem in the Free State Province. The project is a clear demonstration of the suitability of Damen’s stationary dredger range for dredging inland areas;… Read More
Early on Friday morning, July 6, City of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and several other area leaders took a boat tour in Huffman to observe Lake Houston debris removal progress. The debris removal project is a part of the overall Hurricane Harvey debris mitigation from last year’s 51-inch rainfall. Galveston-based DRC Emergency Services was awarded… Read More
Dutch marine contractor Van Oord has been selected to dredge millions of cubic metres of sand for Georgia’s first deep water port, on the Black Sea. The contract from Anaklia Development Consortium pertains to early dredging and reclamation works for Phase 1 of Anaklia Deep Sea Port, Van Oord said Friday (6 July). The port… Read More
Lake Cathie to open to ocean on Wednesday, July 11? Locals have watched with interest the dredging of Lake Cathie and this has now been completed. However we have been told that the sand needs time to settle before an artificial opening can be performed! In the meantime the water level due to heavy rain… Read More
Throughout its safety journey, Manson Construction has upheld the belief that it is, at core, in the people business. Recognizing those who plan, engineer, survey, maintain, operate, administer, manage and build projects, Manson continually defines and refines what it means to be safe at work. Manson instills safe production – not safety and production –… Read More
When it comes to avoiding a repeat of the 2016’s record-breaking deluge and disaster, many communities are still floating ideas. Few projects are under way while state and local officials assess the best way forward. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last month dedicated $14 million toward the Comite River Diversion Canal, though the amount… Read More
Anglers at Kingwood’s River Grove Park couldn’t see the opposite bank of the San Jacinto River as they cast their lines into its murky water one recent morning. The view was obscured by a wall of sand pushed into the channel some 10 months earlier by Hurricane Harvey. The Houston Chronicle reports aerial photographs taken… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and infrastructure services announced today (July 02 2018) the receipt of a several major dredging awards totaling $164 million. The awarded work includes: – the Long Beach project (Coastal Protection,… Read More
Walvisbay-Surfers from around the world are flocking to the Namibian coastline at Skeleton Coast’s Donkey Bay, to surf on one of the best waves on the planet. The legendary Skeleton Bay surf spot is considered the longest sand-bottomed left hand wave in the world and only rose to prominence in surfers circles in 2008 when… Read More
Former President Lee Myung-bak’s controversial project to refurbish the country’s four major rivers was shoddily planned, with Lee making specific design orders and government ministries blindly obeying them, the state audit agency said Wednesday. The Lee administration spent 22 trillion won (US$20 billion) from 2008-2012 on the Four Rivers Project with the goal of preserving… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved its final authorization to dredge and widen the channels leading to the Port of Virginia. The Army Corps’ Chief of Engineers’ Report is the final federal review of the project and clears the way for the deepening and widening of the commercial shipping channels serving the Norfolk… Read More
The Port of Vado Ligure is expanding its capacity. Mounted on the barge “Wise”, the Liebherr duty cycle crawler crane HS 8130 HD is removing sediment from the mouth of the port and is increasing the depth of the water to enable trouble-free shipping. As one of the major hubs for ferry services to Corsica… Read More
The search for a new Sandwich harbormaster netted 19 candidates from across the country, but as it turned out, the best of them was already on the job. The board of selectmen on Thursday, June 28, unanimously approved the appointment of Michael S. (Mick) Dunning as the new harbormaster. Mr. Dunning, who has served as… Read More