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Researchers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have developed dredging optimization models using artificial intelligence and operations research methods to help prioritize and schedule dredging operations across the enterprise. Dredging is the largest individual item in the USACE civil works budget, and traditionally there has not been a rigorously quantitative nor repeatable process… Read More
Preliminary work has begun on the major environmental job of removing hundreds of tonnes of silt from Crescent Quay in Wexford which was this week branded a “serious eyesore” by County Council chairman George Lawlor. Cllr Lawlor told a Wexford Borough District Council meeting that he understands it is an extremely complex task in terms of how… Read More
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth,” opined philosopher and pugilist Mike Tyson. Coronavirus, supply chain woes, workforce turnover, international conflict – you name it, and the last two years have had it. Every business reeled, of course, but the maritime industry, which ties together the economic, defense, commercial and energy… Read More
California is awarding a grant to support the development of one of the nation’s first high-frequency electric ferry networks servicing the fast-growing neighborhoods around San Francisco. The grant is the latest in a series of steps being taken to support the development of the San Francisco Clean Ferry Network, which is designed to be a… Read More
The lifestyle block owner has lost three-quarters of his 24-hectare plot to coastal erosion. He’s now calling on the regional council Environment Canterbury (ECan) to help. The landowner said ECan has failed to repair a seawall outside his property, which used to hold the waves at bay. The water has now come flooding in, burying… Read More
Dear Editor, The St. Thomas-St. John Chamber of Commerce commends Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. and the entire board of the Public Finance Authority for unanimously approving the appropriation of $17 million in bond proceeds for the dredging of the Charlotte Amalie harbor channel and turning basin. This vital infrastructure project will allow Oasis-sized cruise ships… Read More
Sembcorp Marine Offshore Platforms has won an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for a gas topsides project offshore Australia. The unnamed client is said to be a major energy company. Sembcorp expects work on the topsides to take four years to complete. 07.18.2022 Source
Ngai Te Rangi is threatening to blockade Tauranga Harbour if the Port of Tauranga goes ahead with a massive dredging plan. The iwi is heading for the Environment Court to fight a resource consent for the work issued by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, which owns more than half the port shares. Chief executive… Read More
Bluestem Partners of Kansas City announced today that Bailey Construction commenced the groundbreaking of the South Port Commerce Center, a one-million-square-foot industrial development located in the Port of Little Rock. In attendance at the groundbreaking were members of the Little Rock Port Authority, Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas Economic Development Commission, and Little… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct a regional environmental review of six lease areas offshore New York and New Jersey in the New York Bight. Leases for these six areas were awarded through BOEM’s February 2022 auction that brought in over $4.3 billion, a record amount for any U.S. offshore renewable or… Read More