Porto Central and Van Oord signed a contract in October to develop and build the Por-to Central in the city of Presidente Kennedy in the southern region of the Espírito… Read More
Dredging & Marine Construction
The Waterways Journal has been covering dredging and marine construction news on the inland rivers since 1887. Now, with the combined power of IDR (International Dredging Review), we cover this news in greater depth, expanding our coverage to major projects along all US waterways, coastlines and the Great Lakes.
In September Brazil’s minister of transports aviation and ports Maurício Quintella announced that the country will invest BRL 100 million ($30.7 million USD) to dredge then reform the port of… Read More
Dutch dredging contractor Royal Boskalis Westminster unveiled a sculpture in the Punta Pacifica island it helped build in Panama City from 2011 to 2013. Called Ocean Reef I the 13.75-meter… Read More
On September 20 an international forum aimed at debating the expansion of the Port of Santos discussed among other topics the challenges and the opportunities the dredging activity offers for… Read More
Officials from Colombian port of Barranquilla asked the country’s transport ministry to conduct research on deepening the port’s access canal to 15 meters (about 49.2 feet) Caracol Radio said. René… Read More
In August the Panama Canal reached its second month of full operations. According to estimates from the Panama Canal Author-ity (ACP) more than 230 cruise ships are ex-pected to transit… Read More
Jan De Nul’s subsidiary Sodraco SAS along with French-based Vinci Construction Grands Projets and EMCC formed a $147 million USD consortium to expand the Port of Kingston in Jamaica. According… Read More
In the last several months the Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard on the Volga River has delivered three 1000 cubic meter trailing suction hopper dredges ordered by Russia’s Federal State Unitary Enterprise… Read More
Van Oord has successfully executed an extensive ground improvement project for the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). The project which started in 2014 was completed at the end of August… Read More
Since the beginning of 2016 Van Oord has been working as the main contractor on one of the largest land reclamation project ever executed in Taiwan at the Port of… Read More
