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The private multi-port operator, Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Ltd (AVPPL), tasked to build the superstructure and operate the country’s first international multi-purpose deepwater seaport project at Vizhinjam has approached Vizhinjam International Seaport Ltd. (VISL) for seeking more time for commissioning the Phase I. Citing the damage to the two heavy duty dredgers, access road-cum-shore protection… Read More
Nags Head will have to wait a year to add more sand to the town’s 10 miles of shoreline, but the job can be done next summer by tweaking the numbers to stick to a $34 million budget. The town opened bids on Thursday from four companies, each with proposals for this year and next…. Read More
Beach lovers are in for a pleasant surprise with significant improvement in the shoreline near the INS Kursura Submarine Museum. Thanks to the annual beach nourishment project taken by the Visakhapatnam Port Trust, the Dredging Corporation of India deployed its dredger near the museum to pump sand from the ‘Sand Trap’ built near the Dolphin’s… Read More
The head of the Central Coast’s peak environment body has slammed calls for dredging of Ettalong channel as ill-considered amateurism with no scientific or engineering basis. Community Environment Network chairman John Asquith said there was a real danger that some of the schemes to dredge the channel and combat ongoing erosion of Ocean Beach would… Read More
Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) was joined by local elected officials, small business owners, boaters, fishermen, and other stakeholders at the Moriches Yacht Club in Center Moriches, calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to undertake an immediate emergency dredging of the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway, Moriches Bay and Moriches Inlet in light of several… Read More
France’s Port of Dunkirk will receive a new gantry crane in May 2018 as part of its Flanders Terminal expansion project. Shortly after receiving the crane the facility will begin dredging to a depth of 16.5 m, with the deepening expected to be finished by the end of autumn. A total of 4m m3 of… Read More
The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that, in the “interest of the nation”, it will explore alternate routes for Sethusamudram Ship Channel project so that Ram Setu, the 50-km-long the chain of limestone shoals between India and Sri Lanka which holds religious significance for Hindus, is not touched. In an affidavit filed as… Read More
The state’s annual hearing about summer dredging will be at 6 p.m. March 29 in Toledo City Council Chambers. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to dredge 800,000 cubic yards of silt from Toledo’s shipping channel to keep it open for commerce this year. Toledo is the shallowest part of the Great Lakes navigational… Read More
An extensive beach nourishment project wrapped up this week as crews finished enlarging the beach near the Holiday Inn, Town Manager Tim Owens said. “They’ll be wrapping it up by Friday,” Owens said of the $9.4 million project, which added 750,000 cubic yards of sand to the town’s beach. Owens said federal funds paid for… Read More
The Broads Authority issued a notice saying that “rake/agitation dredging work” would be carried out by a contractor on behalf of the authority in the Lower Bure until March 29. “The work will be carried out at variable times, on the ebb tides between high slack water and low slack water during daylight hours,” the… Read More
The Harris County Flood Control District is planning to remove silt that has built up in four waterways that flow into the Addicks Reservoir so the channels can hold more stormwater. The $13.3 million project will remove approximately half a million cubic yards of sediment from the channels, which include Bear Creek, Horsepen Creek, Langham… Read More
The wheels are slowly grinding at the Mill Pond as the Lake Mills City Council voted to take no action on a dredging study grant during its March 6, meeting. City Manager Steve Wilke said a lot has changed at the Mill Pond since he arrived in Lake Mills. He said the city is going… Read More
The progress is, oh, so slow. One is speaking, of course, of Wahkiakum County’s effort to set up a program to nourish eroding beaches on Puget Island and Cape Horn. In response to queries from Island residents, Commissioner Dan Cothren on Tuesday reported a bit of progress on one of two fronts. First, the county’s… Read More
Dredging that raised fears 10,000 tonnes of silt and mud would be dumped on Teignmouth beach has been suspended until June after evidence was presented that dumped material was ending up on beaches. Back in August 2017, the Marine Maritime Organisation granted a marine licence to Exmouth Marina for maintenance dredging and disposal of 10,000… Read More
The town of Frisco is planning an overhaul of the Frisco Bay Marina, including a massive dredging project that would excavate tens of thousands of cubic yards of soil to expand the marina’s capacity, make way for bigger boats and extend the town’s boating season by at least a month. The project, coined the “Big… Read More