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Annual dredging of Charleston Harbor continued Tuesday, as the Army Corps of Engineers works to maintain the proper depth in the busy shipping channel. Harbor depth has been constantly on the minds of state and local leaders in recent years, as they’ve fought for federal approval to deepen the channel. Work will begin in December… Read More
Annual dredging of Charleston Harbor continued Tuesday, as the Army Corps of Engineers works to maintain the proper depth in the busy shipping channel. Harbor depth has been constantly on the minds of state and local leaders in recent years, as they’ve fought for federal approval to deepen the channel. Work will begin in December… Read More
Mississippi River Commission held its annual town hall meeting Monday. We learned why problems at the Hickman Fulton County Riverport Authority may not be fixed anytime soon. MRC spokesman Jim Pogue says, this year, the commission’s budget is tight. “Some years, we get funding to dredge in all 10 Memphis District harbors, but this year… Read More
Collier County officials are considering using dredging to fight beach erosion, but doing so will cost more than the current method of using trucks to haul sand. “It’s always going to cost more to dredge, but it’s always going to last longer,” Naples city councilman Reg Buxton said. While some suggest increasing the county’s tourist… Read More
New Hampshire’s congressional delegates are calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Hampton Harbor, where they say severe shoaling is harming local marine industries. U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., wrote a letter March 27 to the Army Corps of Engineers asking for the federal engineering and construction agency to quickly dredge the harbor,… Read More
A call has been made upon the relevant authorities to expedite dredging works on the rivermouth of Sungai Sarawak to ease navigation for the communities there. Demak assemblyman Dr Hazland Abang Hipni also believes that flash flood incidents would be minimised once the river is deepened. “It is hoped that the relevant authorities would expedite… Read More
Contract crews are beginning work on the final phase of dredging at the Ashland Project, where remediation is taking place in Chequamegon Bay. Late in March, the Environmental Protection Agency and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approved a final design plan for the full-scale wet dredge at the site as proposed by Northern States Power… Read More
The long-awaited cleanup of Wagner Creek and Seybold Canal is expected to start next month, says Horacio Stuart Aguirre, Miami River Commission chairman. Cleanup of the long-polluted Miami River tributary comes two years after the city commission approved the Wagner Creek and Seybold Canal Maintenance Dredging and Environmental Cleanup Project. The city has lined up… Read More
Specialist work vessels have arrived at the Port of Dover to begin dredging the harbour as part of its redevelopment. The £120 million Western Docks Revival (DWDR) project will see a new marina pier erected and the building of a new cargo terminal, as well as shops, cafes and bars on the seafront. VolkerStevin and… Read More
The East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday said it will ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to abandon plans to fortify the beaches to the west of Montauk Inlet, since doing so without constructing jetties, or groins, along the beach would cost some $21 million—$11 million of which the town would have to pay… Read More
Adding cranes in Savannah or doubling Ro/Ro space in Brunswick is about more than boosting already impressive cargo numbers. The point is ensuring our ability to grow along with our customers, and never experiencing the congestion that occurs when demand becomes equal to capacity. GPA employees, our partners in the ILA and service providers deliver… Read More
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