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The managing director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, says lack of capacity and credibility by contractors is the key reason why the agency terminated the contracts for the dredging of Calabar ports channels. Testifying before the house joint committees investigating alleged sharp practices and the status of Calabar and Warri ports, Hadiza also… Read More
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed has proposed almost $3 million in funding for two Block Island projects, one for dredging in Old Harbor and the other to do maintenance dredging in the entrance channel of the Great Salt Pond. The monies are included in the 2019 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bill that… Read More
Youths of Itsekiri and Ijaw extraction in Delta State under the auspices of Itsekiri /Ijaw National Youth Council in collaboration with Delta State Seaports’ Stakeholders Association on Thursday began a broad based sensitization campaign of host communities in preparation of the dredging of the Escravos Channel and Warri River. The youths led by presidents of… Read More
U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced Tuesday that the Senate Water Resources Development Act will authorize the first-ever Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Study, aimed at preventing erosion and other damage to lakeshore communities from Minnesota to Northern New York. The four-year, $12 million study — funded by $3 million from the eight Great… Read More
Not a cent of the €9 million recently announced for new flood defences in three Laois towns, will be used for dredging or cleaning rivers. The €9m Flood Risk Management cash to prevent further flooding in Mountmellick, Portarlington and Clonaslee was welcomed by Laois county councillors at the April meeting, but they wanted to get… Read More
ABUJA-Joint Committee of the House of Representatives on Public Procurement and Port, Harbour & Waterways investigating the controversy surrounding the award of $44 million contract for remedial works at Escravos channel -replacement of navigational aids and minor dredging in Delta state has ordered relevant government agencies to produce the original bidding documents of the contractors…. Read More
The State of Michigan will set aside $50 million in its 2019 budget to cover its potential share of a $1-billion project to build a new supersize shipping lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Gov. Rick Snyder and legislative leaders said Wednesday. Snyder said he is calling on other states to also pitch in money, since… Read More
The companies DEME and Jan De Nul, active in the dredging sector, wish to hire more than 1000 people between them this year. De Tijd reports on Wednesday that they had already widely recruited last year, but owing to billions of euros of investment in larger tankers and significant order books, massive recruitment now has… Read More
Talks of dredging the Vermilion River throughout Lafayette Parish are getting a little bit closer to reality. At Tuesday’s Acadiana Planning Commission meeting, the Army Corps of Engineers announced it has requested that the Vermilion dredging project be included in $17.4 billion in emergency funding. Dredging the river has been controversial in the past. The… Read More
The issue of a $1.2 million study to determine a long-term solution to the chronic Inlet shoaling problem arose anew this week and Ocean City officials again weren’t keen on helping to fund it. The Inlet and other channels in and around the commercial harbor naturally fill in and require constant maintenance dredging, but the… Read More
Wärtsilä is to provide the engines, propellers, and control system for a Marine Aggregate Dredge (MAD) 3500 ordered from Damen Shipyards earier this year by Cemex UK, a leading supplier of building materials. The order with Wärtsilä was booked in March. The 103 m long, 4,975 gt hopper dredge, which will be built at Damen… Read More
At least two Benelux companies have dispatched representatives to Israel in recent weeks to discuss a project to develop an airport offshore in the Mediterranean. Jan de Nul Group of Luxembourg and Belgium’s Dredging Environmental & Marine Engineering NV have sent senior employees to discuss the project, according to Avi Simhon, head of the National… Read More
The widening of South Australia’s main shipping channel will cut the risk of large cargo ships and cruise ships bypassing Adelaide, Transport Minister Stephan Knoll says. The widening of the channel at Port Adelaide, by dredging 1.55 million cubic metres of material from a 7km stretch, will help grow the economy and create more jobs,… Read More
The Department of Public Works is partnering with the Coega Development Corporation on the first phase of a project to upgrade 13 Western Cape harbours. The project, which will cost approximately R400 million, is expected to boost the small-scale fishing industry and tourism in the Western Cape. Riyaadh Kara, Quantity Surveyor for the Department of… Read More
As the recently re-launched ferry service continues its journeys between Fleetwood and Knott End there are hopes it will be plain sailing for the good ship Wyre Rose and her friendly crew. Despite the delay of the re-launch, caused by the unexpected withdrawal of the initial successful tenderer, Wyre Council and Lancashire County Council have… Read More