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The Port of Virginia® moved 220,376 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in February, 351 TEUs lower than February 2016, but placing its fiscal-year-to-date growth at 6.9 percent. The continued growth comes as the port has started the engineering and survey work on its capacity expansion plan at Virginia International Gateway (VIG); work at Norfolk International Terminals… Read More
The Brisbane Water channel has not been listed in the NSW Government’s dredging strategy. Priority regional locations listed in the strategy included 28 coastal harbours and river entrances from Tweed Heads in the north to Eden in the south but Brisbane Water was not included. “Locations where dredging would maintain navigational access to state-owned maritime… Read More
The Acting Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr. Vincent Onome Akpotaire has decried the non-dredging of the Calabar Channel which has impeded vessels coming into the Calabar Port to the detriment of the terminal operators and other users of the Port. Speaking after the Post Privatisation Monitoring of Terminal Operators at… Read More
Part of an extensive fleet of up to twenty specialist vessels have started to arrive at the Port of Dover, UK for the commencement of harbour dredging for the Port’s flagship Dover Western Docks Revival (DWDR) development. The DWDR Principal Contractor, a joint venture between VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster (VSBW), has mobilised various items of… Read More
Local officials broke ground Friday on a project that will play a crucial role in Fountain Lake dredging. Shell Rock River Watershed District officials hosted the ceremony on the site where a confined disposal facility will be. The CDF will siphon off and settle water after a mixture of water and sediment is dredged from… Read More
Abu Dhabi Ports, the master developer, operator and manager of the emirate’s ports and Khalifa Industrial Zone, has announced a major expansion plan for its Khalifa Port Free Trade Zone (KPFTZ) to accommodate more industries. Currently, 40 companies operate in the free trade zone in a range of sectors including industrial, trading and services. The… Read More
The Gorai River Restoration Project (Phase-II), initiated in 2009, has failed to restore the natural flow of the river and its ecosystem due to its unplanned dredging and ‘graft’. The Tk 930-crore project is scheduled to be completed by 2017, but the Gorai dried up at the onset of the last dry season even after… Read More
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved fresh estimates for the planned project to deepen and widen Mumbai Harbour Channel and JN Port Channel. It has been confirmed that the entire project cost, of Rs 2029 crore (US$ 31.28 million) will be funded through the internal… Read More
Twelve bodies have been recovered during dredging of Bhakra Nangal canal in Narwana area of Jind district in Haryana. A section of the Bhakra Nangal canal that runs through Narwana was closed for dredging. While cleaning the river bed, bodies were recovered, one after the other, sending shockwaves across the state. Police suspect that more… Read More
Dredging in Grays Harbor has been pushed back a week and a half. Originally scheduled to start this weekend, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that they will begin annual Grays Harbor maintenance dredging on April 10. Now working around-the-clock through April 26, the vessel Yaquina will dredge the Grays Harbor Entrance, Point Chehalis… Read More
Crews planned to start as early as April 1 on a long-awaited dune replenishment and beach widening project that will come first to Ortley Beach, and eventually progress through 2018 to nearly the entire oceanfront of the northern barrier island. Toms River officials expressed excitement that the project was underway after a long process of… Read More
A beach replenishment project to help bolster the severely eroded Southold Town beach is close to wrapping up. Southold Town Director of Public Works Jeff Standish spoke to the town board at Tuesday’s work session and said he was thankful that beach re-nourishment efforts had begun prior to recent storm Stella. “If we did not… Read More
The massive PCB clean-up in the Fox River is now entering the home stretch, with dredging operations underway for a ninth consecutive year. An early ice-out this spring allowed for a two-week jump start on the largest river clean-up of its kind in U.S. history. Since 2009, crews have dredged more than 4 million cubic… Read More
A $1.3 million dredging project that was to have begun in April at the marina at Utah Lake State Park is being delayed, probably until after Labor Day. Park manager Jason Allen tells the Standard-Examiner the postponement comes with water levels rising and spawning season about to start for the lake’s endangered June suckers. There… Read More
Beachgoers arriving at the Galveston seawall this weekend will find a far more spacious beach to relax on following the pumping of more than 1 million cubic yards of sand along 3.5 miles of badly eroded beach. The $19.5 million effort to pump sand taken from a sand bar in the Houston Ship Channel ended… Read More