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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
After court battles lasting more than four years, the New Zealand port of Tauranga is widening and deepening its shipping channels from 12.9 m to 14.5 m inside the harbour, and 15.8 m outside. The work is being carried out by Danish dredging contractor Rohde Nielsen and is the final building block in the port’s… Read More
The dispute over dredge spoils from Cape Cod Canal is headed back to state court. On Friday, attorneys for property owners on Bay Beach Lane and White Cap Path filed a motion to have their lawsuit returned to where it started, in Land Court. The move came two days after the town’s attorneys had the… Read More
It will be another year before the boat launch at Willow Grove will get dredged, and it’s anyone’s guess if it still will be usable by then. Delays in getting the park transferred from Cowlitz County to the Port of Longview means the dredging project, estimated to cost $250,000, must be rescheduled until next fall,… Read More
A project to remove the equivalent of nearly 17,000 pick-up truck loads of old sawmill wood and debris from Muskegon Lake will have the added benefit of providing needed fill material for the former Sappi site. Hydraulic dredging of the Muskegon Lake bay between the Grand Trunk launch ramp and the Lake Express Ferry dock… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers is submitting proposals for federal funding of two dredging maintenance projects on the Saco River and one at Wood Island by Biddeford Pool. The corps proposes to have all projects funded at the same time in order to save more than $400,000 associated with the mobilization and demobilization of dredging… Read More
BW’s FSRU, which has arrived in Egypt, for a five-year charter, will start operations late as the berth at Sokhna Port where it is due to be moored still has a fortnight’s worth of dredging work to be completed. Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) took the FSRU on charter as the nation fights a… Read More