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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
“Build it and they will come” worked for Kevin Costner’s character in “Field of Dreams.” It appears to be working on the Delaware Bay where reefs built as part of Superstorm Sandy ecosystem restoration are attracting horseshoe crabs, Red Knots, oysters and other marine life. According to Capt. Alek Modjeski, habitat restoration program manager, American… Read More
Good news about the improved health of the St. Clair River came in threes, recently. Federal and provincial environment ministries have approved changing the designation of three of the river’s beneficial use impairments (BUIs) to no longer impaired. Recent decisions by Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks,… Read More
Early allocation differs from practices of previous years, when federal money was slow to be released. Sand replenishment to start in May. The sand is on its way. Guaranteed. The federal government has already allocated $1.5 million for sand replenishment at Presque Isle State Park in 2019. The allocation, which the U.S. Army Corps of… Read More
Members of the community in Bou Sra commune, in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district, alleged that a tycoon and a government official have been dredging sand illegally. However, the latter claimed that they are just “testing” whilst the permit is “being processed”. Kreus Kven, the community representative, told The Post on Monday that the sand… Read More
The federal government has come up with money for removing additional waste mining sands from a section of Lake Superior off Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. The Environmental Protection Agency is providing $946,000 to dredge stamp sands from an ancient riverbed north of Buffalo Reef. The coarse, black sands were generated in the early 1900s as a… Read More
The Port of Morgan City is set to receive another $3 million for dredging through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, bringing the port’s total dredging funds announced in the past year to roughly $45 million. In a Monday email, Port Economic Development Manager Cindy Cutrera stated that the Corps of Engineers’ fiscal year 2019… Read More
The more than three-decade old dredging project that will enable the Port of Philadelphia to handle ships of 14,000 TEU is set to be finished by end of March as the port nears the end of the first phase of a $300 million upgrade that eventually will double the size of its only container terminal…. Read More
The city said today that preliminary goals of the Sunset Beach Dune Restoration Project started over the summer have been accomplished, and that it is now in a “maintenance phase” as the North Shore’s winter swells get under way. City officials first announced a six-part plan and private-public partnership to restore the dune at Sunset… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set aside another $59 million for the Port of Corpus Christi’s Channel Improvement Project. The dredging, which has been on the port’s wish list since 1990, is finally building up a stockpile that should allow work to continue in 2019. The projected end date is 2021, when the new… Read More