Western Dredging Association’s partner Texas A&M University will be holding its 48th Dredging Engineering Short Course from January 7 to 11, 2019, at the Texas A&M University College Station. The course is aimed toward dredgers, professional staff and project managers and will include lectures, laboratories and a… Read More
PIANC Indonesia and Royal Haskoning DHV are hosting a 3-day Port Masterplanning training event, October 24 to 25 in Batam, Indonesia. The event will focus on the cost-effective and environmentally sound design and maintenance of access channels. On day one Professor Han Ligteringen of Delft University of Technology will provide… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $16 million contract to dredge and cap portions of the Lower Rouge River Old Channel (LRROC) in southwest Detroit, Michigan, to Great Lakes Dock and Materials (GLDM) of Michigan. Dredging and capping the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District will host two National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) scoping meetings for the Miami Harbor Navigation Improvements Study. The meetings will be held on Wednesday, November 7 at Cruise Terminal F on Port Miami, Florida. The first meeting will be from 1:30 to… Read More
Two grants aimed at addressing the beneficial use of dredged material were awarded by the Ohio Lake Erie Commission (OLEC). The $50,000 Lake Erie Protection Fund Grants were awarded to Megan Rua at Wright State University to study whether cover crops will improve beneficial microorganisms and reduce… Read More
The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) praised the Senate’s passage of America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018/Water Resources Development Act (WRDA 2018), on October 10 by a 99 to 1 vote. The bill passed in the House by unanimous voice vote (435-0) in August. Commenting on final passage of the bill,… Read More
Damen placed second in the maritime & aviation sector in this year’s MT500 rankings of the top 500 companies and institutions in the Netherlands. It also came in twentieth out of 500 in the overall ranking, its best ever result. The MT500 is an annual report stemming… Read More
The dredging contractor Dutch Dredging of the Netherlands has added two new vessels to its fleet, the Papillon and the Fregate. The vessels were delivered to Boer Remorquage SARL, a joint venture of Dutch Dredging and Iskes Towage & Salvage. The investment is a response to the… Read More
The Panama Canal reached a new milestone with the transit of four liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships with beams of up to 160 feet in a single day through the Neopanamax Locks. This breaks the record set on April 17, 2018, when three LNG vessels transited through the waterway on… Read More
Van Oord and Dredging International, a DEME Group subsidiary, have been awarded a contract to deepen and widen a 62-kilometer (38-mile) section of the Szczecin fairway in Poland. The project will take the fairway from 10.5 to 12.5 meters (34.5 to 41 feet). The… Read More
