Highlights of the Week – Readers’ Choice

VIDEO: Panama Canal Expansion – January 2015

The largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction, the Panama Canal Expansion Program will create a new lane of traffic along the Canal through the construction of a new set of locks, doubling the waterway’s capacity.

Van Oord, Boskalis to Build Artificial Island Off Jakarta

Van Oord and joint venture partner Royal Boskalis Westminster have won a major land reclamation contract in Indonesia.

Keel Laid for Transnet’s New TSHD

Royal IHC (IHC) has laid keel for South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) third 5,500m3 trailing suction hopper dredger.

Hulhumale Phase II Reclamation Kicks Off

DEME’s Dredging International has started the land reclamation works of the Phase II project on the Maldives island Hulhumalé. The project will add another 240 ha of new land to the island.

The Latest Video from New Suez Canal

The New Suez Canal dredging program is progressing very well. The project was inaugurated by the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on 5 August 2014.