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Under the building permit issued for the construction project, the quayside will be expanded to 98.5 metres long and 34.4 metres wide, while a 24.8 square metre hinterland area will also be built. According to a statement, the Port of Koper is aiming for its terminal to handle approximately 1.3 million TEU annually. Byung Kwon… Read More
Dredging operations began Oct. 29 in the Chester River, just north of Ferry Point, and will continue for most of November. Dredging of the Federal Northern Approach Channel to Kent Narrows will remedy recently shoaled areas as shallow as -3.4 feet mean low water (MLW). The authorized depth of the channel is -7 feet MLW… Read More
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb Tuesday said a new waterway would come up within six months for movement of container ships between Sonamura in Sipahijala district of the state and Ashuganj river port in eastern Bangladesh to ply. After the completion of the new waterways goods to the state will directly reach Sonamura town… Read More
The Clive River may have “had its day” as a rapid build up of silt threatens to ground a popular waka cruise experience. Out of action since May for maintenance, the waka Nga Tukemata o Kahungunu has been struggling to re-enter the water to cater for the cruise ship trade. The 40-seat boat often does… Read More
HOPE Uzodinma, the sitting Senator representing Orlu Senatorial District of Imo State, was “arrested” on Sunday by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property headed by Okoi Obono-Obla. As at noon on Monday, Uzodinma was still in custody, with Obono-Obla confirming to the media that he (Uzodinma) has been evading arrest… Read More
Cabinet approved in principle the draft of the Bangladesh Tariff Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018 at the meeting Cabinet on Monday approved an addendum to the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade, under which 470km of rivers will be dredged with joint financing from Bangladesh and India. According to the deal, India will provide 80%… Read More
On November 7, the world’s largest dredger ship, Athena, completed its large-scale works at Anaklia Port. A record-breaking amount of sand was pumped from the seabed. At this stage, the marine works of Anaklia Port are almost finished. The total investment value of the first phase of the project is $600 million and it includes… Read More
Apparently, not everything is going down the drain. Testing results from underwater sediment samples gathered by Clark Magnet High School students in September proved that certain conditions are, in fact, improving. Students in an environmental geographic information systems, or GIS, class made an excursion to the mouth of the Los Angeles River and collected soil… Read More
The cabinet on Monday approved ‘Addendum to the protocol on inland water transit and trade’ under which 470 kilometres of rivers will be dredged with joint financing of Bangladesh and India. Share Quote According to the deal, India will provide 80 per cent of the dredging cost, while Bangladesh 20 per cent. The approval came… Read More
One of the first flood mitigation projects to break ground post-Hurricane Harvey, the Army Corps of Engineers began a nearly $70 million project to dredge a portion of the West Fork of the San Jacinto River in September. However, according to city and county officials, the project only scratches the surface of the additional efforts… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 6th. The construction company reported $0.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.03 by $0.15, MarketWatch Earnings reports. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock had a negative net margin of 1.07% and a negative return on… Read More
The Beloe More recently joined its sister vessel Severnaya Dvina in the Port of Sabetta, northern Russia. The 2,000 m3 hopper dredger was delivered from stock to FSUE ROSMORPORT. The customised hopper dredger will perform maintenance duties and execute capital dredging in the newly created harbour. The Beloe More – meaning ‘White Sea’ in Russian… Read More
Montrose Port Authority has warned it must be able to continue dumping dredged material around Lunan Bay “if the port is to remain operational”. Marine Scotland decided not to renew its licence in September, prompting concerns over the potential closure of deep water berths to freight and decommissioning traffic at the facility. The regulatory body… Read More
Dredging in Neabsco Creek is now underway. There is an estimated 17,000 cubic yards of silt clogging the channel in Neabsco Creek. To put that in perspective, one cubic yard of saturated silt can typically weigh up to 3,000 pounds. Fifty-one million pounds of soil or 25,500 tons of silt needs to be removed in… Read More
The Hudson River is in the beginning stages of another multi-year, multi-million-dollar cleanup project. Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. is investing $40 million into decontaminating the river near its City of Poughkeepsie property and creating a barrier that would prevent further pollution. The hope, by the time the project is complete in 2020, is… Read More