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About four-tenths of a mile of the Esopus Creek, starting at the point where it meets the Hudson River, will be deepened by 3 to 5 feet starting in September. Village Board member Patrick Landewe said the work, to be overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will be done around the clock. “They’re… Read More
The South Korean port of Gwangyang is planning to deepen and widen its Fairway 3 to better cater to bigger ships. Currently, Fairway 3 is 22 m deep and 380 m wide. It is one of Gwangyang port’s seven fairways. Yeosu Regional Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Office, which oversees Gwangyang and Yeosu ports, said in… Read More
The Dunkirk Common Council is poised to approve a contract to dredge the city’s harbor but stopped short of taking action at Tuesday’s meeting. Only one bid has been received for the work, $136,500 from Dean Marine of Michigan, and it came in one day after the advertised deadline. Dunkirk’s approval would be contingent on… Read More
Jersey Shore communities will have to bear another hurricane season and winter without proper protection from coastal storms, with a federal beach replenishment project pushed back again – this time until at least spring 2016, a local official said. Toms River Councilman George Wittmann said he and other local officials have been in contact with… Read More
The City of Cape Town said on Thursday it had started with dredging operations at the Zandvleiestuary nature reserve near Muizenberg The city council said maintenance teams from its Environmental Resource Management and Transport division had commenced with the dredging operation of the sand bar at the mouth of Zandvlei as part of the necessary… Read More
“I assumed that it was a typo, that a zero was missing,” County Administrator Sel Hemingway said. State legislators say it was no mistake that caused funds for dredging the Georgetown port to go from $2.5 million to $250,000 in this year’s budget. The sales tax in Georgetown County went up by a penny this… Read More
There’s more progress on long-touted plans to deepen the channel at Broward County’s seaport to host larger ships, boost business and create jobs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set aside $1.2 million this budget year to help fund the next phase of the dredging project, Port Everglades chief Steve Cernak announced Tuesday. Nearly… Read More
A massive dredging project at the Port of Redwood City has entered a new phase. The aim of the $12.8 million project is to deepen the channel to greater than 30 feet to allow more vessels to dock at the port. Before the project began, the depth of the Redwood Creek channel was 22 feet,… Read More
The Port of Calais in the north of France has received approval from the European Commission (EC) to go ahead with plans for a new €270 million cross?Channel terminal. The project funding had been under scrutiny in relation to the EU’s competition rules with concern that it may unduly distort competition in the internal market… Read More
The project will see the removal of almost 40 thousand tonnes of silt from the harbour, and will be ongoing for the next two months.The operation cost in the region of 6 million euro.County Clare engineering firm L&M Keating Ltd were announced as the contractor in May. Dunmore East Harbourmaster Harry McLoughlin says the dredging… Read More
The Taipei City Government will revise river dredging plans, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said yesterday. “Even though funding might be the same, dredging plans will change to focus on allowing boats to enter and exit docks,” Ko said, adding that previous dredging of the river channel had not had any effect. The Chinese-language Liberty Times… Read More
Mr Danladi Ibrahim, Acting Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), has said the dredging of the Lower River Benue, awarded at a cost N26 billion, would be completed in two years…Ibrahim made the disclosure when he visited the Lagos Area Office of NIWA, as maritime activities closed on Friday. He said the contract… Read More
Visakhapatnam Port has added yet another feather to its cap when it received m.v. Han Fu Star, the larges-ever bulk carrier it berthed in its history. Since it was made operational in 1933, the port received largest-ever Cape vessel generating a lot of interest among port community. Vizag General Cargo Berth Private Limited (VGCBPL), one… Read More
The planned half-billion dollar deepening of the Charleston Harbor shipping channel has passed another milestone, and final approval of the plan is expected from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by early fall. Three years ago, the Obama administration designated Charleston and four other harbor projects as nationally significant and allowed required studies to be expedited…. Read More
THE World Bank Vice-President for the Africa Region, Dr Makhtar Diop, said at the weekend that his institution is impressed with the ongoing improvement at the Port of Dar es Salaam, saying the move will have positive impact on the economy of Tanzania and its landlocked neighbours. D r Diop made the remarks when he… Read More