Newport Beach will spend $777,000 to expedite prep work for a planned harbor dredge in hopes that it will make the federal government more likely to award the city a heavy subsidy for the overall project. The City Council unanimously agreed Tuesday night to pay contractor Anchor QEA to prepare plans and permits that would… Read More
Creating New Horizons in Port Construction – that’s what Boskalis did in Nigeria. In Lekki, 80 kilometers east of Lagos, we constructed a new port and 700-meter-long sandbar breakwater for which we used the natural sand flow along the Nigerian coast. An excellent example of Building with Nature Source: Hellenic Shipping News
Quietwater Beach in Pensacola on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. Beach leaders plan to widen Little Sabine and use spoils to renourish Quietwater Beach, the busy beach area behind the Boardwalk Shopping Center.
The start of a restoration project for wetlands along Lake Erie, previously expected to begin in November, has been pushed back. The $1.2 million project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city calls for the conservation and expansion of 12.2 acres of native coastal wetlands near Waterworks Park west of Derby Pond… Read More
The Pima County Regional Flood Control District announced plans to remove approximately 150,000 cu yards of sediment from the bed of the Santa Cruz River channel in Tucson, Ariz. The dredging is scheduled to begin Jan. 8 and will take up to two months to remove the sediment buildup. The project aims to increase capacity… Read More
Crews have begun dredging the Inner Harbor in Syracuse. The New York State Canal Corporation says the $10.3 million project will allow recreational vessels to begin docking at the Onondaga Lake port by next summer. Officials say silt and sand from Onondaga Creek has reduced the depth in the Inner Harbor to as little as… Read More
More than 1.5 million cubic metres of sand will be dumped onto Norfolk beaches in a pioneering effort to stem the tide of coastal erosion. The huge sandscaping project will cost somewhere between £17 million and £22 million, and is aimed at protecting Bacton Gas Terminal and the villages of Bacton and Walcott from the… Read More
When Bend park board member Nathan Hovekamp declared that fish passage at Mirror Pond dam may be critical to support from the park district for dredging, he did not add, “I’ll make sure it is.” But he might as well have. It’s another episode of foot-dragging in the epic foot-dragging to delay dredging the pond…. Read More
Major closures along the Pacific Coast Highway begin Monday as crews start to repair damage brought on by the Woolsey Fire and recent mudslides. Utility crews continue to work to restore power to hundreds in the area who are still without power since the fire. Those crews were delayed by last week’s heavy rainfall. The… Read More
The new Virgin Voyages Terminal will be located on the northwest side of the port in Miami, giving it incredible views of the city’s skyline. Construction is due to start next year and will be completed by November 2021, the beginning of the year’s cruise season. The new 10,000 square-foot terminal will be a palm… Read More
Lach Huyen Port Infrastructure Construction Project Japanese ODA loans (Component A) The Port will be developed in two phases, and will be equipped with comprehensive infrastructure and handling technology. It will be able to accommodate container ships between 4,000TEU and 6,000TEU, with the potential to accomodate 8,000TEU ships after expansion.The port is being constructed south… Read More
Ibistek Limited will in January, 2019 commence the physical construction works on the development of the multipurpose Atlantic Terminal Services on-dock facility at the Takoradi Port. It followed the signing of a project management contract with Royal Haskoning DHV of the Netherlands for the provision of a technical advice and construction supervision in relation to… Read More
Each year discoveries are made during the annual dredging season as port maintenance crew work to remove thousands of cubic yards of accumulated silt clogging access and moorage at the Port of Ilwaco and Chinook. Dredge duty Operating a hydraulic dredge is complex and can take months to master. The main controls feature eight identical… Read More
The McHenry City Council agreed this week to partner with the Fox Waterway Agency to complete dredging on Boone Lagoon. The project is expected to begin in May and will include dredging of the lagoon from the Fox River to the Green Street bridge. The city is expected to pay about $160,000 for its portion… Read More
Although dredging work for the proposed National Waterway-5 was stopped in July due to massive public protests, the royalty on the sand dredged amounting to around Rs 3.5 crore has not been collected by the district administration. Meanwhile, the people are asking that if the royalty for the dredged sand has not been collected where… Read More