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The Daintree River Ferry will face minor delays overnight while silt and sand from recent flooding is dredged from the river. Dredging work will begin at 9.00pm tonight and is expected to continue over the next few days. The ferry will continue to run until midnight but commuters can expect some delays as the build-up… Read More
AS the $44.861million (N16.150 billion) Warri Channel dredging contract nears completion, controversy is currently trailing the project’s contract award. Some maritime experts, who spoke to Vanguard Maritime Report on the issue, explained that the contract will not service the port community in Warri for the long term as a result of the high siltation (rate… Read More
Nearly $10 million more in state funds are being released to help keep dredged material out of Lake Erie, including $1.9 million to the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority to expand the capacity of its confined disposal facility near Oregon, known as Facility 3. The latest round of grants was announced Tuesday at a news conference… Read More
With nearly $10 million in funding approved by the State Controlling Board, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will begin projects aimed at keeping dredged material out of Lake Erie. The projects in Toledo, Lorain and Conneaut are part of the state’s Healthy Lake Erie Fund program and will be… Read More
Thirty years in the planning, dredging should begin soon in the Corpus Christi Channel Improvement Project. The first construction contract has been awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC of Oak Brook, Illinois. The first phase of the dredging will cost $93 million and run from… Read More
Preliminary work has begun on a project to dredge about 150,000 cubic yards of sand out of the Sebastian Inlet and spread most of it on Indian River County beaches. Ferreira Construction of Stuart, which won the bid for the Sebastian Inlet District’s $2.9 million project, will put an 18-foot dredge on the west end… Read More
Seaborne Freight is hoping to have completed its dredging at the port of Ramsgate by the end of the month, but questions still remain overs its capabilities to offer capacity in the event of a no-deal Brexit. A spokesperson for the ferry company told The Loadstar the work, which commenced on 3 January, was expected… Read More
A special suction hopper dredger will be stationed off Northport, at Marsden Pt, from today to dredge the seabed for the first time in 17 years. Maintenance dredging is due to start at Northport today. The work to remove sediment build-up in the ship turning basin near Snake Bank, along Northport’s linear berth and at… Read More
The project to dredge the Suriname River has been in the works for years, but for some reason it was always shelved. It concerns deepening the fairway of Suriname’s main river over a span of 66 kilometres, from its estuary at the Atlantic Ocean past the capital of Paramaribo up to the village of Domburg… Read More
A federal judge is allowing the St. Johns Riverkeeper to argue why a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flooding analysis in Charleston, S.C., should be admitted as evidence in its lawsuit seeking to block the federal agency from deepening Jacksonville’s shipping channel. The issue is to some degree a technical one, but the Charleston study… Read More
Preliminary work has begun on a project to dredge about 150,000 cubic yards of sand out of the Sebastian Inlet and spread most of it on Indian River County beaches. Ferreira Construction of Stuart, which won the bid for the Sebastian Inlet District’s $2.9 million project, will put an 18-foot dredge on the west end… Read More
Jaxport’s project to deepen 11 miles of the St. Johns River to 47 feet got underway in February 2018 when Dutra Group began dredging the first three miles of the shipping channel. Dutra Group is expected to finish its segment of the deepening project by August. In November, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company began… Read More
Rusty Braun said he appreciated being recognized by the City Council for volunteer work to improve Veterans Cove. However, the attention left him “a little bit on the embarrassed side.” Braun operates the Riviera Marina, which is downriver from the cove. “It was a huge volunteer job you did for us,” City Manager Toby Cotter… Read More
But because of the permit challenges made by the Condo Alliance officers, county officials said the Corps of Engineers would not participate in the project nor contribute $1.5 million toward the entire project cost of up to $3.5 million. County officials then reverted to what they deemed “plan B.” It called for Okaloosa to pay… Read More
Burghead harbour is owned by the local authority who are tasked with overall maintenance of the site, including keeping the entrance free and clear for boats to come in and out. They use their own £2.4 million dredger, the Selkie, to do this – but it has emerged it has been tied up in Buckie… Read More