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Brick Mayor John Ducey said state officials have told him the township, along with neighboring Mantoloking, will be prioritized in the timing of a planned beach and dune replenishment project that has been stalled nearly a year by legal wranglings. The mayor faced questions from concerned residents Tuesday night at a township council meeting held in… Read More
Work to bury huge sandbags to reinforce an eroded ocean beach in Montauk is scheduled to begin in October, despite a lawsuit from environmentalists seeking to stop the project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials said. The $8.4 million emergency plan would place 14,000 “geotextile” sandbags — each weighing 1.7 tons — along 3,100 feet… Read More
Port managers, local seafood processors and Pacific County residents aiming to keep local issues at the forefront of future policy and federal budget discussions met with congressional and senate staff at a round-table discussion at the Port of Ilwaco Aug. 24. Staff from the offices of U.S. Rep.Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-WA, 3rd Dist., U.S. Sen…. Read More
The next 5 years at the Port of Gdansk will see the implementation of the largest ever investment program, in terms of both scope and expense, says PGA. The program initiated by the Port of Gdansk Authority and worth almost nearly 1 billion PLN (842 million PLN, to be precise), which will cover almost the… 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 that the Charleston District of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received $2.4 million for the work and Charleston County has… Read More
Expressions of Interest (EOI) from industry have been invited by the Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) for the design and construction of the new Integrated Marine Operations Centre (IMOC) at the Port of Port Hedland. This signficant project, which was announced by the Minister for Transport in July 2015, will facilitate the safe and efficient movement… Read More
North-West Basin Branch of FSUE Rosmorport has announced an open tender (No ???? 163-15) for the maintenance dredging at the water area of the Ugolnaya Gavan (Coal Harbour) of Big Port St. Petersburg, the company says. According to the company’s press center, initial price is RUB 23,728,080. The source of financing – internal funds. The… Read More
Indian conglomerate Adani reached two milestones this week for its proposed AUD20 billion (USD14.6 billion) Australian port, rail, and mine project in northern Queensland. On 21 August, the Queensland state government announced that a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on dredging and expansion at the port had given the project the go-head. The final EIS… Read More
Cos Cob Harbor and the Mianus River, which have seen their share of both commercial and pleasure boats over the past two centuries, will be getting a much-needed dredging in 2016. The Army Corps of Engineers will dredge Cos Cob Harbor from buoy No. 9, just outside the Riverside Yacht Club, all the way up… Read More
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