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Dutch dredging giant Van Oord closed out celebrations marking its 150th anniversary year with the christening last month of the trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Vox Amalia’ in Rotterdam. Dredging has a high profile in public life in the Netherlands and Her Majesty Queen Maxima was on hand to swing champagne towards a vessel named after… Read More
APM Terminals Poti and Poti New Terminals Consortium have submitted conceptual designs for the first stage construction permit of the Poti Port expansion, which includes a new breakwater and extended quay wall. The designs, submitted to the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, include construction, development and operation of a new breakwater, 700m… Read More
Denmark plans to build nine artificial islands in southern Copenhagen in a bid to attract businesses, the government announced on Monday, amid a housing and office space shortage. The government and Hvidovre Municipality announced the plan, which will see an extension of the Avedøre Holme area south of the Danish capital, creating nine new islands… Read More
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) must decide whether a federal environmental assessment is required for the proposed Boat Harbour Remediation Project, located approximately five kilometres east of Pictou, Nova Scotia. To help inform this decision, the Agency is seeking comments from the public and Indigenous groups on the project and its potential effects… Read More
The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) has received a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to support the expansion of its 50-acre inland port in Spartanburg County. Once complete, the expansion of Inland Port Greer will increase terminal capacity, allow for additional storage and processing tracks inside the terminal which will improve… Read More
Virginia has the nation’s number five port, serving an average of 40 ships a week and connecting more than 200 countries. And despite talk of trade wars in Washington, the place is poised to grow. The Port of Virginia is a massive operation, spreading over nearly 2,000 acres. It was the first to accept enormous… Read More
Covering the coastline between Bacton and Walcott this scheme will widen the beach along this stretch of coast in order to reduce the impact of waves on the coastal defences by causing the waves to break further offshore. This pioneering approach to sea defences was pioneered by the Dutch back in 2011, who called the… Read More
What are said to be the largest cranes to operate at a U.S. commercial port arrived Monday in Virginia, marking the latest effort to accommodate the increasingly mammoth container ships that underpin international trade. Standing 170 feet (52 meters) tall, the Chinese-made gantry cranes towered over the ship that carried them through the mouth of… Read More
In recent times, one of the major port improvements in Europe has been the Calais Port 2015 project in northern France, which is intended to make the port future-proof. Only 42 kilometres across the water from the port of Dover in England, Calais is the closest port on the continent to the UK, making it… Read More
The announcement by Republican U.S. Representative Bradley Byrne, (AL-1) that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will have the budget to place sand dredged from the Mobile Ship Channel in a newly expanded disposal site may ensure the long-term survival of Dauphin Island itself. The dredged sand can now be placed in shallower water depths… Read More
More than 50 properties on Wrightsville Beach’s north end will be assessed costs to help dredge and maintain Mason Inlet, which separates the island’s north end from Figure Eight Island. The cost to maintain the dredging of the inlet over the past five years comes to $3.3 million, New Hanover County Commissioners heard in a… Read More
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The shipping ministry’s move to bring inland waterway dredging under real-time monitoring is possibly the first of its kind to keep track of dredging activities. As part of a government plan to develop a web-based system, the ministry has reportedly taken up a year-long project to develop software to monitor public and private dredging under… Read More
PTI quoted Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s biggest oil firm, as saying that it will commission its first liquefied natural gas import terminal at Ennore in Tamil Nadu this month. IOC Chairman Mr Sanjiv Singh said the INR 5,151-crore terminal is complete and would be commissioned after completion of dredging of the channel that will… Read More
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Shoreline and Waterway Management Section within the Division of Watershed Stewardship will begin beach replenishment work in early February, pending permit approvals, for the Delaware Bay communities of Pickering Beach, Kitts Hummock and Bowers Beach, DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin announced Jan. 4. Replenishment, which is… Read More