Abuja — The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that the dredging of River Niger has been completed, and assured that work will soon commence for the dredging of River Benue. Amaechi, who made the disclosure while fielding question from members of the Senate committee on Maritime weekend, said what the River Niger… Read More
Officials from Avalon and Stone Harbor attended the weekly progress meeting for the upcoming beach fill project at the Stone Harbor Firehouse Feb. 2. In attendance from Stone Harbor were Council President Karen Lane, Council members Joselyn Rich and Ray Parzych, Business Administrator Jill Gougher, Public Works Director Grant Russ, and Engineer Marc DiBlasio. In… Read More
It’s been nearly eight years since the Sarnia Harbour was last dredged—that being in 2008 by Transport Canada—and the City of Sarnia’s Peter Hungerford, director of economic development, is hoping it will be at least at least a few years before a gradual filling in of sediment is required. With a transfer of ownership to… Read More
AFTER months of delays, it will be all smooth sailing for Rosslyn Bay boaties. Roughly 46,000 cubic metres of material has been removed from the harbour in a bid to improve navigational access. Keppel MP Brittany Lauga said the works, announce in June, were part of a $1.5 million contract to restore all-tide navigational access… Read More
City Council approved Wednesday a resolution to allocate funds to hire a consultant for a marina dredge design and study. A water depth survey of the marina was recently completed which defined the locations and amounts of siltation that has occurred in the marina since its last dredging four years ago. As suspected, the survey… Read More
The state-run enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority in 2017 is scheduled to hold dredging works at sea ports at the total area of about 20 million cubic meters, including capital dredging. Newly appointed acting head of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority Raivis Veckagans announced this during a meeting with dredging companies in the American Chamber… Read More
Contractor McConnell Dowell will resume dredging of the Faleasao harbor in Manu’a maybe in April or May. That’s according to Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Poumele who was responding to a question from Rep. Vailoata Amituana’i, about the status of the dredging in Manu’a to accommodate the MV Manuatele. Vailoata said he learned from company officials that… Read More
Dredging has begun in the befouled Eau Gallie River to remove a half-century of muck, a carpet of black gunk that is known to strand even canoes. “You can go, but your outboard motor will just turn thick sludge,” said Matt Culver, Brevard County’s boating and waterways program coordinator. “It’s like going through pea soup.”… Read More
Commenced at the end of October, the Narrow River restoration project is nearing completion of its first phase. The dredging of the marsh river bed between Middlebridge and Sprague Bridge is expected to be completed by Tuesday, Jan. 31. At which point, at the end of February, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which owns… Read More
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the Federal Government has awarded contract for the dredging of the critical part of River Benue. Mr. Amaechi, who disclosed this at the 2017 budget defence before members of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport on Thursday in Abuja, said that work will soon commence. He said… Read More
Run aground at Westport’s Board of Finance Wednesday night, a $1.265 million request to dredge the Compo Beach channel and marina now heads to the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) on Tuesday. Because the finance board turned it down by a 4-2 vote, it needs a 70 percent supermajority of the 36-member body to approve the… Read More
The next phase of remediation dredging operations in the Esquimalt Harbour is now underway in the waters adjacent to Fleet Diving Unit (Pacific) in Colwood. Overseen by Formation Safety and Environment (FSE) and contracted through Public Works & Government Services Canada, the work is being performed by private contractor JJM Construction Ltd., of Delta, B.C.,… Read More
More than one million cubic yards of mud, silt, sand, shell and other material will be scooped from the bottom of the Baltimore Harbor over the next several months to maintain depth and berth required for the port’s shipping channels. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded the $14.1 million contract for the dredging work… Read More
National Fish Workers Forum has requested the Puducherry government to ensure uninterrupted dredging in the estuary off the fishing harbour in neighbouring Thengaithittu to relieve fishermen of hardships to navigate the accumulated sand mounds there. Chairman of NFF’s Puducherry unit M Ilango said in a release that there had been regular dredging in the past…. Read More
Annual dredging has commenced at the Port of Chinook. The mission this year is to remove as much as 15,000 cubic yards of material that have accumulated at the port. “We are budgeting on 30 operational days of dredging, which would be approximately 300 operation hours,” said Port Manager Guy Glenn Jr. in a Jan…. Read More