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The Viet Nam Shipping Department has proposed investing VND6.4 trillion (US$283 million) in dredging the Cai Mep – Thi Vai Passage to allow access to 100,000 DWT vessels. The department has asked the Ministry of Transport to approve the project. Funds would come from the state budget and other sources. The Cai Mep – Thi… Read More
For Inlet residents and businesses here, the seven-decade wait is over. Large cranes stationed along the Boardwalk last week began work on a new seawall to reconnect the South Inlet with the North Inlet for the first time since 1944, a visible sign of action on a project that had long been all talk. For… Read More
Sections of the Intracoastal Waterway near the Isle of Palms and near McClellanville are expected to be dredged thanks to almost $3 million earmarked for waterway maintenance. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports (http://bit.ly/1KHf0Hf) that the Charleston District of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received $2.4 million for the work andCharleston County has… Read More
The Shipping Ministry has decided to step up dredging operations in the Shimulia-Kawrakandi ferry route by bringing in a larger dredging unit from the Padma bridge project. Operations in the route, popularly called the gateway to southern Bangladesh, have been hampered for the last two weeks due to poor navigability. Although the route was kept… Read More
Faced with a lack of federal funding to complete the long-overdue dredging of the Petaluma River, local officials and business interests are teaming up to look for solutions to unclog the silted slough. Local officials and even federal representatives acknowledge that funding for river dredging is unlikely to come out of Washington in the next… Read More
Srinagar: As September 2014 floods are about to complete one year, the government has not yet started the much awaited dredging process of river Jhelum in Srinagar, a move which was deemed as necessary for building a preventive mechanism against such catastrophe in future. Earlier, the reports suggested that the authorities would start the process… Read More
Federal officials defended their decision Friday to allow General Electric to begin taking apart its PCB processing facility on the Hudson River, even though a company plan to the Environmental Protection Agency to shutter the facility has not been acted upon or even made public. “Although some dismantling of decontaminated equipment is under way —… Read More
Who will eventually perform the necessary additional navigational channel dredging in the Hudson River from the federal dam in Troy to Fort Edward has been a sticking point through all the contentious years of negotiations with General Electric over the removal of their PCB contamination of the same stretch of the waterway. GE managed to… Read More
The town of Darien will move forward with a project this fall to rebuild the Upper Gorham Pond dam, dredge thousands of cubic yards of road sand, and install a fish ladder to help herring migrate more easily, officials said. The primary focus of the project will be the restoration of the aging dam, including… Read More
The dredge Yaquina has yet to perform maintenance dredging on the Coquille River bar. The Yaquina had orders to start mid-July. Excessive north wind and ocean swell were not conducive to getting the work done at that time. There have been opportunities since then, particularly the week of Aug. 10, as she was scheduled to… Read More
Port of Tauranga is in the early stages of reaping the benefits of its expansion in the North and South Islands, posting revenue and profit gains for its year to June. As the country’s largest port, by volume, POT is beginning its channel-deepening programme in October. It expects 6500TEU (20-foot equivalent container units) vessels by… Read More
North Topsail Beach Town leaders are trying to find money to pay for the next beach re-nourishment project. The Town completed Phase One in 2013 which restored the northern 1.5 miles. Phase Five which restored the southern approximate 3.5 miles of shoreline was completed this spring. The town said the next part of the project… Read More
The Queensland Government has released the third draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) into the controversial Abbot Point port expansion near Bowen in the state’s north. The expansion will enable coal to be shipped from proposed mining projects in the Galilee Basin, like the $16 billion Carmichael mine. The EIS proposes the spoil from dredging the… Read More
President and chief executive officer of the Port Authority of Jamaica Professor Gordon Shirley yesterday declared that plans for the development of a transshipment port in the Goat Islands areas of the Portland Bight are not dead. Noting that the Port Authority would view the Port of Kingston as potentially including shipping activities at the… Read More
Taking your boat for a spin on Mara or Shuswap Lake is one ofSicamous’ main attractions, but finding a place to tie up your boat in the Sicamous Narrows is becoming a problem. Locals says low water levels and silt are drastically cutting down on the number of usable moorage spaces and some are now… Read More