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THE Gladstone Ports Corporation will spend about $100 million deepening a shipping channel near the RG Tanna Coal Terminal. The project will remove two million cubic metres of dredgings from the Clinton by-pass channel as a safety measure to protect ships berthed at the coal terminal. “The current channel is 13 metres deep, which is… Read More
The Omani Government has prequalified nine international marine engineering firms to participate in a tender for the construction of a Bulk Liquid Berths Terminal at the Port of Duqm. The $1bn contract will see the successful bidder carry out the design, dredging, reclamation and jetty works for the new terminal. The contract, which encompasses primarily… Read More
THE business-boosting Gladstone Ports master plan is busy boosting business in all the region’s ports except Rockhampton’s, but Port Alma and Fitzroy Delta have been offered an environmentally friendly incentive for being scrapped from the new plans. The release of an amended proposed boundary had 88,000 hectares of land under the Port of Gladstone, the… Read More
On Nov. 1, a project to dredge about 3 million cubic yards of silt is scheduled to begin at John Redmond Reservoir. The project is estimated to cost $20 million. Construction of silt disposal sites will be the first step. The lake is about an hour south of Topeka, just north of Burlington, and a… Read More
State Senator Patty Ritchie today announced that she has secured $200,000 in special state grant funding to start dredging at the Port of Ogdensburg. “The future of Ogdensburg’s deep water port is at risk from 30 years of silt build up that makes docking more difficult, dangerous and costly,” said Senator Ritchie. “This funding helps… Read More
An appeal to allow maintenance dredging of Duck Key‘s canal system raised concerns about “opening Pandora’s box” among Monroe County commissioners, meeting Wednesday. Duck Key Property Owners Association representative Sherry Popham told commissioners that Hurricane Wilma a decade ago and Hurricane Georges in 1998 carried massive amounts of sand and sediment into historically “free-flowing canals”… Read More
A long-sought project to dredge the channel connecting Lake Jackson and Little Lake Jackson may have an unexpected benefit: helping to move forward the city’s sale of Harder Hall. On Tuesday, the City Council favored moving 2,800 cubic yards of sand that will be removed as part of the project to the Harder Hall property…. Read More
The dredger ‘Niccolo Machiavelli’, named after the famous 15th-century Italian politician and writer, drew attention when it docked in Hamilton early yesterday morning, ready for dredging work that will be carried out on the North Channel. The vessel is 452ft long and 85ft wide, with an average speed of 13 knots. Its unique design means… Read More
A new stretch of the River Parrett will be dredged in the New Year, Somerset’s flood protection body has said. The move follows a decision by Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) to spend £2.1m to dredge a 750m stretch between Northmoor and the M5 near Taunton. Chairman John Osman said: “This area we’ve chosen to dredge… Read More
The Ministry of Public Works would like to inform the public that the widening of the North Channel will commence at the end of October 2015. The channel is being widened and dredged to accommodate the new generation of cruise ships, commencing with the 2016 visits of Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum class. It is anticipated… Read More
Since securing state and federal permits to dredge the federally-authorized shipping channel, it has been widely understood within the Port St. Joe Port Authority that before the first turn of the shovel there had to be a place for its contents to go. The Port Authority last week formally moved ahead on the construction of… Read More
Dredging work on the North Channel will begin before the end of the month so Bermuda’s shipping ways can accommodate the latest generation of cruise ship next year. The dredging and widening of the channel that runs from off St George’s towards Dockyard is expected to take a month to complete, but will not affect… Read More
The Mississippi River Reintroduction to Bayou Lafourche project took another step forward last week when the State Bond Commission approved up to $30 million in revenue bonds for the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District to continue work. Ben Malbrough, the district’s executive director, said the approval essentially establishes a line of credit for the project,… Read More
The Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority (NT EPA) has considered the Port Melville project and decided that no further assessment is required under the Environmental Assessment Act. Chair of the NT EPA Bill Freeland says the determination comes after a detailed consideration of the port components, including those yet to be constructed in the lease… Read More
The state Canal Corp. intends to issue a new PCB dredging plan for the Champlain Canal on the Hudson River to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers within the next 90 days. In a statement, the Canal Corp. also said the new plan make “no substantial changes” to a dredging plan that has been before… Read More