The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted the federal permit authorizing construction of the Louisiana International Terminal (LIT), clearing the way for the nation’s only new greenfield container port currently under development. Strategically located on the Lower Mississippi River with direct a
DEME Group announced its half-year 2025 results recently, saying that their Environmental Segment delivered a turnover of 142 million euros and EBITDA of 22 million euros for a margin of 15%. Order book remained stable at 322 million euros while the team continued to work on opportunities in the Ben
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District recently visited the Ashtabula 204 dredging site to learn more and view the dredging process including sediment placement as it occurred in Ashtabula, Ohio. Material dredged will be placed in USACE’s beneficial use project in Ashtabula’s outer harbo
Close to the Port of Ghent, Belgium, Jan De Nul is renovating the oldest of two reservoirs at the water production center. Both basins can produce up to 60,000 cubic meters of drinking water per day, playing an important role in the water supply of northern East Flanders. The largest and oldest basi
A new permanent, buried, pipeline to pump dredged material to Castletown Beach is being used for the first time as work begins to clear the build-up of sand at Bandy Creek Boat Harbour at Esperance. The $2.3 million four month dredging campaign is expected to remove a record amount of material from
Jan De Nul has installed a carbon measuring station for WETCOAST, a research project studying carbon capture and storage by coastal wetlands. According to the company’s latest announcement, they installed the station in the newly created nature reserve – the Hedwige-Prosperpolder. “In the early 2020
The following is a press release from Navingo BV, the owner of Dredging Today and organizer of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC). More than 400 exhibitors and co-exhibitors booked their spots at OEEC 2024 Businesses and organizations from across the offshore energy sector and
The autonomous survey USV VO:X Barentsz (a ??? ????? 7m USV type) made its debut in the Port of Scheveningen this week. “Under the watchful eyes of our engineers, the port authority along with Van Oord Survey department staff, we observed its smooth sailing, stability and maneuverability on the wate
Gov. Jeff Landry and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) yesterday commended the Louisiana Legislature for unanimously passing the agency’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Annual Plan. The Annual Plan, which is required by the Louisiana Legislature to be updated each year, details projecte
Sand bypassing is an important part of the Transport WA dredging program necessary to ensure safe navigation at the entrance to the Dawesville Cut and help maintain sandy beaches to the north. Undertaken each year, the project includes removal of approx. 110,000 cubic meters of accumulated sand from
After almost a year of work, Boskalis has successfully completed the coastal protection project in Togo and Benin. During this coastal defence scheme, trailing suction hopper dredger Willem van Oranje made almost 800 trips between the offshore sand borrow area and the shore to successfully construct
The Port of London Authority has announced that maintenance dredging will soon begin near the OSL Facility on Canvey Island. According to the Notice L01-24, contractors instructed by the operators of Oikos Storage Ltd. are about to begin (1) works and (2) dredging operations at Oikos No. 1 Jetty. Th
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ML (UK) Dredging Ltd. is about to begin routine maintenance dredging of the Trafalgar Wharf in Portsmouth. According to the KHM Portsmouth, the dredging of the Trafalgar Wharf and its Approach Channel is set to take place between 25 September – 17 October 2023. The ML vessels conducting this task ar
