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Jan De Nul expects a better 2019 following a tough 2018 for the company’s operations in Latin America. In December, the company signed a 25-year maintenance dredging contract awarded in mid-September covering a 95-kilometer (59-mile) access channel area for the Ecuadorian Port of Guayaquil. Company executives said the project is the company’s latest in a… Read More
French grain terminal operator Senalia considers a creation of a port complex in Ukraine and plans to complete creation of a joint logistics company in Algeria in 2019. Senalia is the largest grain operator in the northern French port Rouen, the main export hub of the leading grain producing country of the European Union, reports… Read More
AVALON – Avalon Borough Council authorized a bid process Jan. 23 for a back bay dredging project in the public channel west of 21st Street in Pennsylvania Harbor. The channel was last dredged in 2015. Estimates are that it has filled with as much as 1,750 cubic yards of a silt-like material. Borough Engineer Thomas… Read More
WSA Koblenz (WasserSchiffahrtsAmbt ) has awarded Damen Shipyards Group a contract to build a new diving bell ship. The ship will succeed an existing vessel – the Carl Straat, which has been in operation since 1963. The new vessel, like her predecessor, will operate in the River Rhine and its tributaries. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Heinrich Witte,… Read More
Visakhapatnam: The Visakhapatnam Industrial Water Supply Company (VIWSCO), a subsidiary of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), is planning to procure an amphibian vehicle for desilting and dredging of the Yeleru canal. The canal from Yeleru reservoir to the city, spanning over 153 kilometres, is the major drinking water source for the city. The silt… Read More
GEORGETOWN, SC (WCSC) – Georgetown leaders announced Sunday that they are in the beginning stages of getting funding to have the Port of Georgetown dredged. Leaders say they are forming a committee to have the port dredged, something Georgetown Mayor Brendon Barber says has not been done since 2006. Barber believes their waters could bring… Read More
A project to dredge part of the Grantham Canal is taking place which, once finished, will bring boats back to this stretch for the first time in 90 years. The works are taking place in partnership between the Canal & River Trust and Grantham Canal Society with funding made possible thanks to players of the… Read More
Longboat presses ahead with permitting for five sand-saving structures. Longboat Key officials are proceeding with plans to build five sand-saving beach structures at the north end of the island after Manatee County officials indicated they would not object to the construction of a third on Greer Island, a county-owned property. That would bring the project… Read More
A $12.7 million dredging project is set to begin off Daufuskie Island in the coming months to make those waters easier to navigate, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Savannah. The maintenance dredging project will “move the sediment that has settled into an area and started to fill the shipping channel …… Read More
Some 5,000 tonnes of mud and silt is to be dredged from Douglas marina and dumped out at sea. Government is seeking a suitably experienced contractor to carry out the works in the inner harbour. It will involve removing and disposing of sedimentary material deposited in the marina by river flow. A quick quote request… Read More
GALVESTON, Texas – A Galveston beach will be getting a little longer after another project that is slated to begin this year. Although the project hasn’t started, officials said they plan to award a contract in April or May. Work will begin 60 days after the contract is awarded. The $14 million plan is to… Read More
Photo: Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, has said that the Authority would soon embark on the dredging of Onne Port in Rivers State to 11 meters to accommodate bigger vessels in the port. Usman disclosed this in Lagos, last Tuesday while receiving the Danish… Read More
The Albatros suction dredge will take away about 300,000 cubic metres of material from the Port Taranaki harbour. Routine maintenance dredging at Port Taranaki will help replenish local beaches, port authorities say. The Dutch-owned Albatros trailing suction hopper dredge will start the two yearly maintenance campaign at the New Plymouth port soon. It will be… Read More
Photo By Patrick Bloodgood | The Ewell, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District survey vessel, sails past cranes at the Virginia Port Authority’s Norfolk International Terminal. The first phase of Norfolk Harbor’s deepening project is set to begin next January. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood) NORFOLK, Va. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… Read More
Photo: DAMEN The Jose Duarte: first hopper dredger entirely built at a Portuguese yard for a Portuguese contractor Recently the Jose Duarte started its first mining job in Lisbon. The trailing suction hopper dredger has been built in Portugal for a Portuguese dredging company, to a Spanish design and using Dutch dredging equipment. The European… Read More