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Global coastal protection monitor
Global coastal protection monitor
Global Coastal Protection Delivery Monitor: July 2026
Six coastal protection projects across five regions show why delivery cannot be reduced to a single progress percentage. Beach nourishment, island revetments, heritage dikes and walls, deep-water breakwaters, reclamation interfaces and approval-stage defences each depend on different material chains and acceptance evidence.
Public web report / version 1.1 / published 14 July 2026 / data cutoff 16 July 2026.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District / Dylan Burnell
Evidence scope
Six projects across five regions and distinct coastal delivery methods
Six public IMWO project records in the United States, Liberia, Senegal, Marshall Islands, Italy and India, spanning approval, tender and construction phases across beach nourishment, rubble-mound revetments, dikes and walls, deep-water caisson breakwaters, reclamation and shore protection.
6 tracked projects45 project source citations6 Confirmed records5 world regions
Portfolio composition
Project distribution in this edition
Calculated from 6 public project records in this edition. Counts describe the current portfolio, not market size, expenditure, or completion progress.
Delivery phase
World region
Audience
Coastal and port owners, marine contractors, dredging and quarry suppliers, designers, lenders, environmental teams, public authorities and institutions comparing current shoreline-protection delivery evidence.
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International Marine Work Organization (2026). Global Coastal Protection Delivery Monitor: July 2026 (Version 1.1, IMWO-REP-2026-07-COASTAL; data cutoff 16 July 2026). https://imwo.org/reports/report-global-coastal-protection-delivery-monitor
- Edition identifier
- IMWO-REP-2026-07-COASTAL
- Current revision
- Version 1.1 / updated 16 July 2026. Ocean City now carries a five-event, six-source history rather than only the current contract snapshot. The update keeps completed cycles outside current production, preserves the anti-double-counting rule and reconciles 45 citations across the six linked projects.
- Review cycle
- Monthly evidence review; material award, mobilisation, completion, acceptance or project-scope changes can trigger an interim dated revision.
- Correction route
- Submit stronger primary evidence or a documented correction for review in the next dated revision.
Calculated snapshot
What the included records show
Every count uses the same six-record denominator at the stated cutoff. The figures describe evidence maturity, region and phase within the included set; they are not market shares, forecasts, capacity measures or estimates of protection performance.
Tracked projects
6
All six records satisfy the named-project, physical-interface, structured-source and anti-double-counting rules.
6 of 6 included records
Construction-stage records
4
Ocean City, Ebeye, Gorée and Genoa have current construction evidence, while West Point is at approval and Vadhvan at tender.
4 of 6 included records
Approval or tender stage
2
West Point has an environmental permit without public award or mobilisation evidence; Vadhvan has separate awarded and unawarded package states.
2 of 6 included records
World regions
5
The set covers Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and Global islands, with two distinct African project records.
5 region labels across 6 included recordsExecutive findings
The six coastal projects differ in material route, workability window and acceptance method, so shoreline length alone is not a meaningful delivery comparison.
Material arrival is not coastal protection acceptance
Ocean City's current contract quantity begins at an offshore borrow site, while its separate 2022-23 placed quantity and stockpile are historical results. Ebeye's armourstone begins at a Ras Al Khaimah quarry and crosses an ocean before barge transfer. In both projects, material produced, shipped, landed or pumped remains different from surveyed, compliant and owner-accepted protection geometry.
Preconstruction evidence has its own commercial value
West Point has project finance, met-ocean work, an approved ESIA and a March 2026 environmental permit, but the reviewed public record does not identify a works contractor or notice to proceed. Procurement and mobilisation are now the material events; another statement that the project exists would not change its status.
Port interfaces need package-level boundaries
Genoa and Vadhvan both contain major breakwater and seabed interfaces, yet their evidence states differ sharply. Genoa has installed caissons and active foundation work; Vadhvan has an awarded nearshore package while the offshore breakwater and dredging-reclamation packages remain separate procurement questions.
Workability can change the finance and schedule path
Gorée's extension request ties delay and cost pressure to sea conditions, supply constraints, inflation and heritage-specific design adjustments. Ebeye adds long-haul rock logistics and transfer conditions, while Ocean City works inside a compressed seasonal beach and environmental window. Published end dates therefore need method-specific evidence.
Completion claims require different measurements
A nourishment contract closes through placed volume and surveyed berm geometry; revetments require toe, filter and armour acceptance; caisson breakwaters require foundation, continuity and navigation interfaces; reclamation requires settlement, perimeter protection and hydrographic proof. One generic percentage-complete field cannot safely compare the set.
Included project evidence
Six Confirmed public project records form the denominator for this edition. Each project page carries the current scope, delivery parties, commercial boundary, next milestone, visual context and complete source list.
Ocean City and Peck Beach 2026 Periodic Nourishment
Coastal infrastructure / Construction
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's USD 19.5 million nourishment contract is in construction; dredge mobilisation is evidenced, but placed volume, accepted beach template and completion remain open
6 structured project sourcesWest Point Coastal Defence Revetment
Coastal infrastructure / Approval
The West Point revetment has an approved ESIA and March 2026 environmental permit; construction award, notice to proceed and physical start are not established
5 structured project sourcesEbeye Coastal Protection Works
Coastal infrastructure / Construction
Marine logistics and construction are established; completion and owner acceptance are not confirmed, while the latest programme update forecasts completion by the end of 2026
7 structured project sourcesGorée Island east and west coastal protection works
Coastal infrastructure / Construction
Works active; EUR 3.5 million additional credit and a 30 June 2027 close are proposed
6 structured project sourcesGenoa New Breakwater
Ports and coastal protection / Construction
24 caissons installed and the first kilometre passed; seabed foundation, superstructure, dredging, and navigation-opening gates remain active
10 structured project sourcesVadhvan Greenfield Deep-draft Port
Deep-water ports, dredging and reclamation / Tender
The approximately 200-hectare nearshore reclamation and shore-protection EPC package is awarded; as of 15 July 2026, the owner tender page lists the offshore dredging, reclamation and protection-bund HAM package closing on 17 July and the Daman marine-sand investigation closing on 15 July, while no award or AOC is published for either package or for the 10.14-kilometre offshore breakwater
11 structured project sourcesInside this report
- Evidence set, anti-double-counting rule, regional spread, phase treatment and confidence boundary
- Material chains from offshore sand borrow and pipeline pump-out to quarry grading, ocean carriage, transfer barges, reclamation and caisson foundations
- Workability and interface controls across exposed islands, heritage shorelines, active ports, urban settlements and public beaches
- Commercial and acceptance gates from environmental permit and award through mobilisation, surveyed geometry, completion, handover and post-storm performance
Method
How the snapshot was calculated
The July edition follows six public IMWO records with identifiable coastal protection scope and current delivery evidence at the 16 July 2026 cutoff. Qualification depends on a named package, a physical shoreline, breakwater, nourishment, revetment, dike, wall, reclamation or marine-material interface, and structured support from an accountable source. One project contributes one latest evidenced phase. The WACA ResIP 1 regional programme is excluded from the denominator because the included Gorée project is one of its country work fronts; counting both would duplicate the same physical package. Vadhvan is included as a bounded port-coastal interface and remains at tender because its nearshore shore-protection package is awarded while the defining offshore breakwater and dredging-reclamation packages remain without official award evidence in the reviewed record. Ocean City's formal programme baseline, completed 2022-23 cycle and active 2026 contract are retained as separate dated layers so historical placed quantities cannot enter the current production ledger.
- Data cutoff
- 16 July 2026
- Denominator
- 6 public coastal protection delivery records across five regions.
- Confidence rule
- Only Confirmed project records are included. Programme-level records that duplicate an included country package and signals without a defined physical interface are excluded.
- Limitations
- This six-project set cannot represent global coastal-protection expenditure, shoreline exposure, avoided losses, nourishment volume, quarry demand or contractor backlog. Nor are its acceptance measures interchangeable: delivered rock is not installed armour, dredged sand is not an accepted beach template, an environmental permit is not notice to proceed, and a caisson count is not an open navigation channel. Quantities, schedules and designs may change after the cutoff.
Sources used 10
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Ocean City and Peck Beach coastal storm risk management project
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, Page labelled updated 14 July 2026; construction narrative dated 10 July 2026
Current construction start, dredge mobilisation, contract quantity, placement reach, design template and forecast completion boundary.
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Great Egg Harbor and Peck Beach, Ocean City project fact sheet
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, 15 April 2026
Project Partnership Agreement, 1992 initial construction, initial-fill quantity, periodic-nourishment baseline and design geometry.
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Ocean City beach replenishment update
City of Ocean City, New Jersey, 2022-23 cycle completed 15 February 2023
Prior-cycle completion, placed quantity and stockpile boundary; these figures do not measure the 2026 campaign.
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Environmental permit for the Monrovia Metropolitan Climate Resilience Project
United Nations Development Programme Liberia, 4 March 2026
Permit and coordinate boundary for the West Point revetment; the permit does not establish award, notice to proceed or mobilisation.
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FP160 Monrovia Metropolitan Climate Resilience Project
Green Climate Fund, Current portfolio record reviewed 14 July 2026
Programme status, finance, implementation period and coastal-defence objective for West Point.
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Pacific Resilience Project II implementation status and results report
World Bank, 15 April 2025
Contract, first riprap arrival and protected-coast indicator basis for Ebeye.
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Coastal protection Marshall Islands
Bontrup, Current logistics record reviewed 14 July 2026
Armourstone source, supply quantity, ocean voyage and deep-water transfer basis for Ebeye's quarry-to-shore chain.
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Senegal WACA ResIP additional-financing project paper
World Bank, 25 June 2026; disclosed 7 July 2026
Current Gorée scope, cost-pressure causes and proposed 2027 completion path.
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Genoa breakwater reaches the first kilometre
Webuild, 9 June 2026
Current caisson, foundation and first-kilometre construction evidence for Genoa.
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Status of Work - Vadhvan Port Project Limited
Vadhvan Port Project Limited, Current owner-posted file reviewed 14 July 2026
Owner-side package boundaries and reviewed award or evaluation state for nearshore, breakwater and offshore works.
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