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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
THE Escravos River, a distributary of the Niger River is a 35-mile (56-kilometre) westerly watercourse that traverses zones of mangrove swamps and coastal sand ridges before entering the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea. The Escravos is linked by a maze of interconnected waterways to the Forcados, Warri, Benin, and Ethiope rivers. Escravos… Read More
State-owned enterprise (SOE) Ukrainian Sea Port Authority and the TIS Group have signed a memorandum of understanding, providing for the implementation of infrastructure projects at the Yuzhny seaport (Odesa region), according to a posting on the website of the Infrastructure Ministry. The memorandum envisages the uniting of efforts of the SOE and the private company… Read More
Five years after first looking for it, the city of Fort Myers has a $775,000 grant in place to dredge Billy’s Creek. Combined with city funding, it means $1 million so that Fort Myers can get started on the removal of decades of sediment that has settled in the canal, making it more difficult for… Read More
Anaklia – Maritime construction works at Anaklia Deep Sea Port have commenced. The scale and engineering solutions of Anaklia Port’s maritime works are historical and unprecedented for Georgia. The maritime works for the port will be carried out by one of the most advanced and technically capable dredging vessels ever built. The vessel owned by… Read More
On Sept. 5, the removal of the Bloede Dam from the Lower Patapsco River near Ilchester, Md., began. Researchers from the University of Maryland are using drone imagery to monitor sediment movement before, during and after the dam removal. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources, researchers from the University of Maryland and environmentalists supporting the… 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
Sri Lanka’s $1.4 billion ( R20 billion) Port City development has elicited parallels to a number of major urban centre. At 269 hectares, the project is about the same size as central London, but its design resembles cities like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai. A decade ago, the idea of a Sri Lankan city that… Read More