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Maintenance dredging of portions of the Federal navigation channel in Duxbury Harbor in Duxbury, Mass., will be completed under the terms of a $4,994,560.00 contract recently awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. Work will be accomplished by Cashman/Burnham (C/B) Joint Venture of Quincy, Mass. Dredging is scheduled to start in… Read More
The infill process at Alexandra Dock is now coming to an end, informed ABP, with dry land breaching the water’s surface and providing foundations for the Siemens development, which has been dubbed Green Port Hull. The dredging campaign will allow deeper-drafted vessels to call at ports along the Humber Estuary. As well as providing material… Read More
A 50-year sand-replenishment project that would widen the beaches in Solana Beach and Encinitas by a total of 35 acres got the unanimous go-ahead from both cities in separate meetings this week. The work, overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, would create a buffer to protect the crumbling bluffs, where continued erosion threatens… Read More
As one dredge falls silent, another one is about to start up. The state Canal Corp. has applied for a permit to dredge the Champlain Canal portion of the Hudson River, an undertaking that has been on hold since 1980. The project is expected to be far smaller in scale than the General Electric dredging… Read More
Cote d’Ivoire authorities on Tuesday launched the expansion works of the Abidjan Port, a project that will transform the country’s commercial capital into the West African maritime transport hub, an official source said. The project that will cost 560 billion CFA Francs (1.12 billion U.S. dollars), 85 percent of it provided by China, will include… Read More
The Durban Harbour will undergo major maintenance to its docking sites to handle its increasing traffic of megaships, the Transnet National Port Authority has said. With massive ships now entering Durban Harbour, the ports authority said ongoing efforts had been made to address “shallow spots”. In a statement, Durban Port Manager Moshe Motlohi said: “The… Read More
The Waterfront Revitalization Committee met with the Board of Selectmen last Tuesday, seeking support for the project to be brought at Town Meeting. Committee Chairman Chris Sampson was joined by architect Stephen Kelleher when addressing the selectmen. Kelleher presented a virtual video trip along the beach and the proposed buildings and pavilion. The trip, which… Read More
Port of Durban Harbour Master, Captain Alex Miya, has reinstated a number of berths in the port back to their original permissible draughts. This follows Transnet National Ports Authority’s ongoing efforts to address shallow spots exacerbated by the size of megaships now calling at the port. Durban Port Manager, Moshe Motlohi, explained: “The vessels calling… Read More
The Port of Cleveland has taken a big step toward solving its expensive dredging responsibilities, announcing today that it sold its first load of Cuyahoga River sediment to a construction company. Great Lakes Construction Co. bought the equivalent of 300 dump truck loads of sediment from the Port and its partner — the Kurtz Bros…. Read More
During his visit to the South East, The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, took the opportunity to inspect progress on the €6m dredging works at Dunmore East Fishery Harbour Centre. The works which involve removing approx 27,000 metres cubed of material located in the harbour basin and in the approach… Read More
PLANS for a “one-off” dredging of the dangerous Richmond River bar at Ballina are moving forward, with up to 30,000 tonnes of sand expected to be removed. The proposal is to achieve a 4m depth clearance at low tide across a 100m wide channel. In 2011, when the bar was at its shallowest, it was… Read More
Waurika Lake Master Conservancy District board members not only received good news but also saw it as they drove onto district property at Waurika Lake on Tuesday. Heavy equipment was busy building earthen containers that will hold silt and water that will be moved by a barge in order to increase water availability for the… Read More
Jacksonville’s pursuit of deeper ship channel stands to get $10 million in 2016-17 from the state Department of Transportation — a small down payment toward the total cost of $684 million for blasting a deeper channel so huge cargo ships can come to Jacksonville. In contrast to the Deep Dredge in Miami’s port, where the… Read More
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has started dredging works on the Yukonhaven on Maasvlakte 2. The dredging work with prepare the port for Gate terminal’s new LNG breakbulk infrastructure which includes a new handling installation. As a result of this infrastructure, bunker vessels and smaller tankers for inland shipping will be able to bunker LNG… Read More
General Electric announced its historic dredging project to remove PCBs from the Hudson River has been completed. But environmentalists said they won’t let GE put the contamination issue in the past tense, calling the company’s declaration “premature.” GE posted the announcement, titled A Historic Achievement, on its dredging project website this week, stating that the… Read More