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Late spring snow lingered on bluffs next to the Mississippi River as a tug from Little Rock, Arkansas, slowly crept northward, pushing a dozen empty barges. Sitting high out of the iced tea-colored water, it was heading to the Twin Cities to pick up corn and grain harvested last fall, before turning around and traveling… Read More
Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) president Juan José Cardona and the president of the Fuerteventura island, Marcial Morales, announced that they plan to tender the extension of the dock of Puerto del Rosario this year. “The project to expand the commercial area of Puerto del Rosario’s wharf is in the drafting… Read More
The Narendra Modi government has relaxed its cabotage policy – a set of rules that govern how goods are shipped within the country, that is from one domestic port to the another – with an eye to making India a trans-shipment hub. However, data shows and experts say that Indian port tariffs are too high… Read More
A month after Maryland environmental regulators demanded the owner of Conowingo Dam do more to help reduce pollution that flows down the Susquehanna River, the company has filed two lawsuits against the state. Exelon Corp. argues it should not be held responsible for pollution it doesn’t create. In lawsuits filed in federal and state courts,… Read More
For decades, parishes have gone back and forth about cleaning and dredging the Amite River. It runs through three major parishes in our area, but this issue goes all the way back to the 1950s. The Amite River stretches about 117 miles and touches three major parishes in our area, East Baton Rouge, Livingston and… Read More
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