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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
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