The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that because of the comments received from navigation dredging and hydrographic survey sec-tors that only nine maritime beacons will be shut down or disestablished… 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.
On June 10 the Kieldrecht Lock at the Port of Antwerp in Belgium was officially opened by His Majesty the King of Belgium. Other digni-taries present were Ben Weyts the… Read More
On June 16 Johan Dolman and Ron Dielhof stood on the Miami Hyatt Regency patio near the location of the symbolic “last scoop” of the Miami River clean-up project taken… Read More
A student with one of the displays in the poster session. On July 10 to 13 environmental scientists and engineers gathered in Montreal for the Fifth International Symposium… Read More
Sand replenishment work taking place on Rockaway Beach New York. This beach had no dunes and was totally inundated with water after Hurricane Sandy. Photo credit: USACE. After… Read More
The Scheldt River a 10500 cubic yard (8000 cubic meter) Antigoon Class hopper dredge under construction at Royal IHC will be fuelled by liquefied natural gas (LNG). The… Read More
Dredging International a subsidiary of Belgium’s DEME Group and the South Korean company Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd. have started construction work on Singapore’s new container port at Tuas. The kick-off… Read More
At the end of July Van Oord dredging and marine specialists head-quartered in Rotterdam the Netherlands reached an agreement on the acquisition of the offshore wind activities of Bilfinger Marine… Read More
Dravo S.A. the Spanish subsidiary of Van Oord headquartered in the Netherlands has recently been awarded a number of long-term beach maintenance contracts. Beach replenishments in Barcelona and La Pineda… Read More
Earlier in the year Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announced that it intended to execute a fleet rationalization study. The study was initiated in light of the deteriorating market conditions… Read More
