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The expansion of the Panama Canal has opened the Caribbean Basin and the Gulf of Mexico to the age of Mega Shipping. Increased commerce with Cuba, or a remix of cargo from regional load centers could spell a reshuffling of trade lanes to accommodate larger ships. Is the U.S. Gulf prepared for this potential traffic?… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, has released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Project in Ward County. Public comments are being accepted through Dec. 22. The draft EIS is a separate, yet parallel, effort from the Corps’ Souris River Basin feasibility study, on which… Read More
Tender documents for the next phase in progressing plans to develop the Ulster Canal are currently being completed, with an anticipated start date for works of Spring next year. Waterways Ireland has informed the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys, that it is currently completing the tender documentation for the… Read More
Last week, Sri Lanka’s finance minister, Ravi Karunanayake, announced that Sri Lanka would sell an 80 percent stake in Hambantota port in the country’s south. The $1.5 billion port project, which has long been the subject of attention by Chinese state-owned firms, will also become a Chinese investment zone. The deals are expected to be… Read More
UK based company, SeaPlanner Ltd. are to launch an international tender for businesses in the South East Asia offshore wind market, interested in entering a reseller agreement for its leading marine management software solution. SeaPlanner™ is an established management and monitoring system in Europe having been selected to support the construction of 26 wind farms… Read More
UK based Land & Water Plant Hire has enabled continued sand and gravel dredging at a quarry near Manchester by placing a 20m long-reach excavator on one of their own floating pontoons. Some sand and gravel had been safely excavated by a long reach excavator working from the bank but it could only work to… Read More
The amphibious multipurpose Watermaster dredgers are used worldwide in flood prevention, deepening shallow waterways, cleaning urban canals, building infrastructure in water environment and industrial-pond maintenance work. With its large selection of heavy duty attachments, the versatile Watermaster can do all the work that conventionally requires separate machines, including dredging, excavating, raking, piling and hammering. Watermaster… Read More
The Port of New Bedford had a $9.8 billion economic value in 2015 and generates more than 36,000 jobs in the region, according to a new state-funded study that city and waterfront leaders hope will spur additional state investment in harbor dredging and other improvements. The study indicates the local port’s economic impact is comparable… Read More
Almost a decade after the project was first proposed, federal regulators are beginning the process of reviewing permits for a $4.5 billion container ship terminal to be built by Georgia and South Carolina on the Savannah River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a public notice that it plans to prepare a draft… Read More
A Chinese state-owned company said to have been involved in Beijing’s island-building in the South China Sea signed a deal to construct islands for rival claimant the Philippines as its President Rodrigo Duterte visited last week, reports said. CCCC Dredging will create four artificial islands totalling 208 hectares of reclaimed land in Davao, the port… Read More
There are promising results from the first post-dredging tests of the Hudson River. Although it will take decades for fish in the upper Hudson River to recover from PCBs, the water is already showing improvement, EPA official Mike Cheplowitz said at Thursday’s report to the Community Advisory Group. The CAG is a group of community… Read More
The study Witteveen+Bos recently conducted for Royal Port S.A. in order to ascertain the feasibility of a new port on the mouth of the Magdalena River near Barranquilla, Colombia, shows that the port is technically and nautically feasible. Among other things a nautical simulation, of a magnitude that was never seen before for a Colombian… Read More
Italdraghe SpA has delivered another Marina Master 8000 dredger to Brighton, UK, the second dredger of its kind to be supplied to a British marina owner. A key feature of the dredger is its horizontally-hinged dredging arm manufactured in two sections with a central hydraulically-controlled vertical hinge. This allows the dredger to work under floating… Read More
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) signed a $770 million contract with Guinea’s government on Monday to upgrade the port in the capital, Conakry, expanding Chinese economic influence in the West African iron and bauxite producer. Under the contact, CHEC, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Co Ltd, will construct three docks, roads and other infrastructure… Read More
Two companies with ties to Mexican mogul Carlos Slim are looking to take over the bulk of a $857 million USD project to improve transport on the Magdalena River in Colombia. The major infrastructure bid was previously won by a consortium called Navelana, with Brazilian engineering giant Odebrecht controlling almost 90% of the project, per… Read More