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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Boat Capt. Ryan Schuman looks out the window of the boat, “Linthicum.” “This is my office,” he says, with a smile. He is part of a team overseeing the dredging project right now in Baltimore’s Harbor. Time has eroded away some of the shipping channels. They need to be at… Read More
The harbor bottom of Morro Bay is getting a good cleaning thanks to a dredging operation taking place in the bay. Crews remove mud, weed and trash from the harbor floor using a scooping tool called a dredge. The operation is set to pump around 400 cubic yards of sand every hour out of the… Read More
Long-running environmental objections to further dredging of the Elbe river serving the Port of Hamburg were dismissed by Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig yesterday. However, start of the planned deepening and widening work on the navigation channel is still dependent on two environmental conditions: finding an alternative site to replant a rare indigenous plant… Read More
PORTS North have not yet been able to decide upon its preferred location for the land- based dumping of a million cubic metres of dredge spoil from Trinity Inlet. The authority has released early results from its draft Environmental Impact Statement for its Cairns Shipping Development Project, which it says is on track to be… Read More
The scope of maintenance dredging planned by FSUE Rosmorport for 2017 is to total 420,000 cbm at the port of Makhachkala. Rosmorport says the main target of the works is to ensure design dimensions of hydraulic engineering structures at the port. The project on maintenance dredging in the water area and at the approaches to… Read More
A new general permit that streamlines approvals for small-scale dredging in the state’s lakes, rivers and streams has been drafted and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is seeking public comment on the language. The public comment period on the general permit runs until the close of business March 3, 2017. The proposed general permit,… Read More
Relief is on the way for Charlotte County’s shrinking shoreline. The county will soon begin the Stump Pass Dredging Project, a initiative to replenish the sand eroded by tropical storms Hermine and Colin. Dredging crews will widen the pass and pipe sand along the shoreline of Stump Pass Beach State Park. Chadwick Park, which is… Read More
More than 15,000 tonnes of silt is to be dredged from the Ribble Link and parts of the Lancaster Canal near Preston. The work is part of a £750,000 investment to improve the water network, making it easier to navigate and improving the habitat for birds and wildlife. Mark Weatherall, senior project manager at the… Read More
The Representative Town Meeting (RTM) Tuesday night voted 31 to 1 with 1 abstention to appropriate $1.265 million to dredge the Compo Beach marina and adjacent channel. It then spent more than two hours on a nonbinding recommendation on who should pay for it, finally voting just after midnight 16 to 15 to recommend slip… Read More
The government of Argentina has received bids in the first three tenders for projects under its US$900mn Salado river basin master plan. The tenders are for contracts to carry out widening and deepening work along 35km of the Salado river (pictured) in Buenos Aires province, to help prevent flooding of farmland. Work to relocate, and… Read More
Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin came up with a way to settle the fight over a project to dredge millions of yards of sand from Big Pass. According to the Herald Tribune, Barwin is proposing a $2 to $3 million insurance fund for the project. If the dredging negatively impacts either Siesta Key or Lido… Read More
The Izmail branch of the state enterprise Ukrainian Sea Port Authority is going to carry out maintenance dredging of the port’s berths and water area this year. The dredging will be performed by the state enterprise UkrVodShlyakh. Under the project the port’s administration are planning to increase the depths near berths No.12-14 (320 m long)… Read More
On the 125th anniversary of the largest port in Latin America, the government announced an investment of R $ 369 million to increase Porto’s capacity The Minister of Transport, Ports and Civil Aviation, Maurício Quintella Lessa, announced on Thursday (2), the signing of the dredging contract for deepening and adequate access to the Port of… Read More
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake in November severely damaged the harbour, raising the seabed and limiting access to four hours a day. The government was spending $5 million repairing and upgrading the infrastructure, including repairing the slipway and marina, as well as deepening the main channel out of the harbour. Dolphin Encounter manager Dennis Buurman said the… Read More
Dredges operating in the heavily trafficked mouth of the Yangtze River have reached a key goal, deepening navigation lanes to a “guaranteed” depth of 12.5 meters, which is about the draft of a Panamax vessel. Reaching the goal “guarantees a smooth and secure channel for the mouth of the Yangtze River,” the Ministry of Transport… Read More