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The shipping ministry is set to organise a two-day international conference on maritime and logistic sector to encourage local and foreign investments and new technologies in the waterways sector. The South Asia Maritime and Logistic Forum 2018 conference will be held between October 9 and October 10 at Hotel Le Méridien in Dhaka, said officials…. Read More
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved 15 projects involving Tk 132.1831 billion, including the Tk 43.71 billion ‘Navigability development and reclamation of Old Brahmaputra, Dharla, Tulai and Punorbhoba rivers’ project, reports UNB. Share Quote Of the total project cost, Tk 84.7922 billion will come from the government, Tk 4.4843… Read More
Scientific progress for any nation is measured by its ability to keep pace with scientific development. There is no progress without scientific research and technology. Kiasma Group continues this process of progress and development of technologies and products, in a research and development program capable to produce innovation in the from of improved technology. Working… Read More
Dredging is an important industry with its uses in many spheres. As the population of the world keeps on increasing, particularly in the coastal areas, more amount of coastal land needs to be reclaimed and protected from erosion and floods, giving rise to the need of dredging in the coastal areas. Also, due to the… Read More
OSIsoft LLC, a leader in operational intelligence, is proud to announce that Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) has integrated OSIsoft’s Connected Services into its Cat Asset Intelligence platform, a suite of subscription-based AI services for analyzing fuel consumption, equipment health and other critical operations in real time. Cat Asset Intelligence services can be used to optimize the… Read More
Turns out, cleaning up a lake can help spruce up a city. Federal money poured into environmental restoration of the Great Lakes will benefit regional economies more than threefold, including the twin port cities of Duluth and Superior, Wis., a study released Tuesday says. Every dollar of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which the federal… Read More
Keeping the Ettalong channel navigable and controlling erosion from Ettalong to Ocean Beach would be a $100,000-a-year job if those in charge simply worked with nature. That is the opinion of Community Environment Network chair Mr John Asquith. “There are many opinions being expressed about the channel and most of them are by people who… Read More
The company will supply the LNG/diesel-electric propulsion system and the water injection dredging system for a new dredger which will operate at the Port of Bordeaux. As previously reported, the construction of the L’Ostrea is a joint initiative between Atlantic Port of Bordeaux, the EIG Dragages Ports and the Socarenam shipyard, based in Boulogne-sur Mer…. Read More
A federal appeals court upheld Oregon’s ban on suction-dredge mining in the Rogue River and other wild salmon streams Wednesday, rejecting miners’ arguments that federal mining laws trump state law on public land. Miners say they may appeal a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel’s ruling that the ban championed by the late state… Read More
The Ohio Lake Erie Commission approved funding for two $50,000 proposals aiming to study potentially beneficial uses for dredged material instead of just dumping it in Lake Erie. Based on Ohio’s Senate Bill 1, which was signed into law in 2015, the state is not to take any dredged material from federal navigation channels and… Read More
Cummins’ most efficient high-speed engine, designed to challenge medium-speed systems, is now available as part of an equipment package pre-certified to IMO’s Tier III NOx standard. US engine developer Cummins took the opportunity of the SMM trade fair in Hamburg last month to launch its IMO Tier III certified QSK60 engine package for a wide… Read More
Chinese scientists have used satellite imagery to investigate illegal sand dredging activities in Hongze Lake located in Jiangsu Province. Hongze Lake is the fourth largest freshwater lake in China. As it has a bountiful supply of sand that can be used in construction, illegal sand mining activities are rampant. These mining activities destroyed the lake’s… Read More
Sand mining from rivers is depriving many low-lying Asian deltas of the sediment they need to maintain themselves, raising the risk of worsening land loss to sea level rise, researchers say. Combined with losses of soil-holding mangroves and accelerating groundwater extraction, which can lead to land sinking, the mining is increasing climate-related threats for those… Read More
Plans by UK energy company EDF to dredge and deposit potentially contaminated mud into Cardiff Bay to make room to expand Hinkley Point nuclear power facilities in Somerset may expose people to radioactive particles, a spokesman for the Stop Hinkley, told Sputnik. “That [the dumping of mud] increases the risks that the particles, when dispersed,… Read More
U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., visited the Port of Indiana at Burns Harbor Wednesday to check out how policies he’s supported in Congress are paying off for the Region’s economy. Young last year helped secure a $9.85 million federal FASTLANE grantto increase cargo handling capacity at the Northwest Indiana port. He’s also worked to ensure… Read More