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After much delay and several impassioned pleas from Port Isabel residents, the entrance to The Fingers is set to undergo maintenance dredging in the coming weeks. Over the last several months, dredging of the channel entrance has been a topic of conversation during numerous Port Isabel City Commission meetings, drawing extended discussion from both the… Read More
Work to repair, upgrade and strengthen Island Bay’s seawall will begin next week. Contractors Fulton Hogan will have workers on site setting up from next Wednesday 18 November. They plan to complete the job by mid-June next year. Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the upgrade work will address structural issues and make the seawall more resilient… Read More
This morning, the EIB took part in the inauguration of the fourth lock in the Belgian town of Lanaye, close to Liege and just across the border from the Dutch city of Maastricht. In the company of several Belgian and Dutch Ministers and EIB Vice President Pim van Ballekom, King Philip of the Belgians officially… Read More
Notice Date 11/13/2015 Notice Type Modification/Amendment NAICS 237990 — Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction Contracting Office Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE District, Savannah, Attn: CESAS-CT, 100 W. Oglethorpe Ave, Savannah, Georgia, 31402-0889, United States ZIP Code 31402-0889 Solicitation Number W912HN-15-B-0004 Point of Contact Travis J Specht, Phone: 9126525470, Bruce… Read More
A project is currently under way to build a new, larger fishing port in Casablanca, Morocco. For dredging operations the subcontractor, Somit, is using a dredger carrying an excavator equipped with an Atlas Copco HB 7000 hydraulic breaker. To ensure reliable operation of the attachment underwater, Atlas Copco supplied a complete package comprising the breaker,… Read More
The Lower Santa Cruz River has at times brought catastrophic devastation — like the 1983 flood in Maricopa and elsewhere in western Pinal. A feasibility study is taking place, conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, to determine the best methods for mitigating flood risks in the future. Representatives from the… Read More
Port Klang, the world’s 12th-busiest port, is likely to face congestion and possible disruption in its operations due to unequal dredging level of its Southern Channel and Northern Channel. Currently, bigger vessels are entering the port only through Pintu Gedung or the Southern Channel, which is about 18m in depth, while the shallow Pulau Angsa… Read More
The federal Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest from an unsuccessful bidder that threatened to delay the Savannah Harbor deepening project. At issue is a $99.6 million mitigation contract the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded in late July to CDM Constructors Inc. of Maitland, Fla., for a dissolved oxygen system. North Carolina-based Crowder… Read More
State-owned Mormugao port, located on India’s western coast, has dropped a plan to deepen its channel to berth so-called capesize ships (the biggest of the dry bulk carriers) on a public-private-partnership (PPP) basis after the solitary price bid received in a public tender exceeded the budget. The project—to deepen the port’s outer channel to 19.8… Read More
Brazil’s second-largest container terminal, Terminal de Conteineres de Paranaguá at the port of Paranagua, will soon be able to handle ships of more than 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units as a result of dredging. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The US Environmental Protection Agency has pledged almost $20 million dollars to help clean up the Clinton River in southeast Michigan. The river, which flows largely through Macomb County into Lake Saint Clair, has been designated a Great Lakes Area of Concern for many years. EPA officials announced Monday that more federal money is coming… Read More
Two communities in the Charleston area want help from the federal government to help them restore their beaches after last month’s historic rains in South Carolina. The Post and Courier reports that Folly Beach Mayor Tim Goodwin has written the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Isle of Palms is seeking help from the Federal… Read More
When the Port of Houston Authority last year began to dredge its container terminals, at Bayport and Barbours Cut, the agency decided to fund the $80 million project itself rather than wait for federal funding. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Dredging work on the North Channel that will allow Bermuda to accommodate the largest cruise liners in the industry has been completed, more than two weeks ahead of schedule. The three-strong fleet of specialised vessels, which has moved more than 100,000 cubic yards of aggregate from the seabed to the South Basin, is expected to… Read More
The Berth 9 Extension at the Port of Felixstowe, the Port of Britain, has been opened by Dr Therese Coffey MP, Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. The 190m extension increases the port’s capability to work two of the world’s largest containerships simultaneously. More than eighty ships of 18,000+TEU have already been handled at… Read More