Royal Boskalis will be sending its 230-meter long (754-foot)  trailing suction hopper dredge Fairway to New Zealand’s Lyttelton Harbour in August to begin work to widen the navigation channel in… Read More
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Recent inland waterways industry news, covering the Mississippi River, Ohio River, Missouri River, Tennessee River, Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and more. Articles on economic, environmental and logistic advantages of barge shipping, plus other stories pertaining to locks and dams and other waterway infrastructure.
Acting on behalf of the Dutch Nature Preservation Society (Natuurmonumenten), Rijkswaterstaat has awarded Van Oord the contract for dredging an extra channel to the south of Marker Wadden. Dredging the… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation announced the receipt of a several dredging awards totaling $164 million. The awarded work includes: the Long Beach project in New York (Coastal Protection, $54.4 million); the Myrtle Beach project in… Read More
The 48th Dredging Engineering Short Course on the campus of Texas A&M University (TAMU) will take place from January 7 to 11. The course, a mixture of lectures, laboratories,and a… Read More
The Panama Canal marked the two-year anniversary of the inauguration of its canal expansion, the largest enhancement project in the waterway’s 103-year history. To date, the Panama Canal has transited… Read More
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have partnered to form the National Coastal Resilience Fund to restore, increase and strengthen the natural infrastructure that… Read More
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) is holding the International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation from October 15 to 19 in Panama. The event, held in cooperation with local… Read More
The Board of the Gulf Coast chapter of the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has issued a call for abstracts for its upcoming fall 2018 conference, to be held from November… Read More
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) Environment Commission has set up a Working Group to prepare a CEDA information paper on Energy Efficiency in relation to sustainability. The paper will explore… Read More
In June, 60 young professionals from the International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) member companies met at Hilvaria Studio’s for the association’s second annual networking event, Peering into Dredging’s Future. Read More
