The US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Jacksonville District has awarded a US$27 million contract to Weeks Marine (WMI) of Cranford, New Jersey, for initial construction of the Flagler County, Florida, Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) project. The USACE will provide 65 per cent of the total...
Dredging and Land Reclamation
Mississippi River dredging to proceed under US$32 million contract
The US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) St Paul District has awarded a US$31.7 million contract to LS Marine of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, to conduct mechanical dredging operations in support of channel maintenance within the Mississippi River. This work will facilitate long-term channel...
New York’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal to be upgraded under US$612 million project
Swedish construction company Skanska has been awarded a contract for the upgrade of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, The project, which has an estimated value equivalent to US$612 million, will transform the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into one of the largest dedicated...
Van Oord christens newest hybrid water injection dredgers
Van Oord held a formal naming ceremony for its two newest water injection dredgers (WID) on Friday, April 26. Rijn and Rhône are sister vessels of Maas and Mersey, which were successfully commissioned in 2021. All four WIDs were built by Netherlands-based the Kooiman Marine Group. The combination...
Boskalis wraps up island reclamation in Maldives
Dutch marine contractor Boskalis recently completed an extensive land reclamation campaign on the island of Gulhifalhu in the Maldives. The works were carried out over a period of nine months using the trailing suction hopper dredgers Oranje, Queen of the Netherlands, Willem van Oranje, and Prins...
Beach restoration works completed in Valencia, Spain
Van Oord recently completed one of the largest beach restoration projects in Spain’s history, restoring the beaches south of the city of Valencia to their original size. The beaches have been slowly eroding since 1965. The Spanish government contracted the joint venture of Van Oord subsidiary Dravo...
Fairway deepening works set for Port of Gothenburg
A fairway deepening project will be undertaken at the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden to enable the port to better serve export and import industries. The fairway deepening will be done in conjunction with quay reinforcement works that were started earlier this year. Gothenburg Port Authority (GPA)...
Dutch design firm to help develop new hopper dredger for US Army Corps of Engineers
Florida shipbuilder the Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Netherlands-based marine engineering company Royal IHC have formed a strategic partnership with the objective of designing and constructing a highly automated, medium hopper dredger for use by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The dredger will be built at Eastern Shipbuilding’s Allanton and Port St Joe facilities. […]
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Dredging commences following quay construction in Rotterdam’s Prinses Amaliahaven container terminal
Dutch marine projects company Van Oord has deployed two of its vessels to dredge the harbour at the Prinses Amaliahaven container terminal located on Maasvlakte in Rotterdam. A consortium of Van Oord, HOCHTIEF, and Ballast Nedam has constructed 2.4 kilometres of new quay wall at the facility to...
Port of Southampton completes channel widening programme
The Port of Southampton has completed a significant navigation channel widening programme in the Western Docks, enabling the largest container vessels to pass the biggest cruise ships berthed in the port, Associated British Ports (ABP) said in a recent press release. This is the first significant...