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President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the dredging of four major rivers in the country, which are heavily silted resulting to floods that destroy crops and properties every year, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said Wednesday. In a Facebook post, Piñol said Duterte directed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Agriculture… Read More
Brazil’s third-largest container port is finally getting the funding it urgently needs for emergency dredging as the Itajai Port Authority announced the port handled more than 1 million twenty-foot-equivalent units. The 39 million reais ($12.5 million) will help bring the operational draft of the Itajaí-Açu River back down to 12.5 meters from the current 10.5… Read More
THE Department of Finance (DOF) will review a ruling by a World Bank arbitration court that requires the Philippines to shell out P800 million to a Belgian dredging firm for the cancellation of the Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project (LLRP) during the Aquino administration, and will pay up if needed. “As President [Rodrigo] Duterte has said,… Read More
Ukraine is making the dredging works market open and invites businessmen to participate in it, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said. “We are opening the dredging works market for business. I hope that the market will be open and transparent,” he said at a meeting with dredging companies in the American Chamber of Commerce… Read More
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary Arturo Valdez said a dredger vessel docked near the Aklan River has been barred by the government from leaving Philippine waters until an ongoing investigation is completed. The ship, MV Zhong Hai 18, was commissioned by Santarli (STL) Panay Resources Company Limited to dredge the silted Aklan… Read More
After a decade of discussion and planning, the head of JaxPort expects this will be the year construction begins on the $684-million project to deepen the ship channel of the St. Johns River. “We are closer than we have ever been to getting this project started,” Jacksonville Port Authority Chief Executive Officer Brian Taylor said… Read More
THE World Bank’s International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruled January 23 that former President Benigno Aquino III’s unilateral cancellation in 2011 of a Belgian firm’s P18-billion flood-control venture, the Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project, was illegal and unfair. It ordered the Philippine government to pay the Belgian dredging firm Baagerwerken Decloedt En… Read More
President Donald Trump has released a list of 50 Emergency and National Security Projects, totaling $317.5 billion in investment and supporting the creation of over 193,000 jobs. The list includes three Louisiana projects, one of which is the dredging of the Mississippi River. The list appears to be a first stage in the president’s infrastructure… Read More
Residents affected by periodic flooding by the Rahway River have until Tuesday, Feb. 7, to weigh in on proposals to mitigate flooding. Millburn and other municipalities along the Rahway River have suffered extensive damage from hurricanes such as Floyd in 1999 and Irene in 2011. Damage to homeowners and businesses in the Rahway River basin… Read More
Georgetown County leaders will not make a decision on replacement projects for a $6 million dredging project for at least a year, and are focusing on the four other projects slated for funds from a one-cent capital projects sales tax. The other projects that are now, or soon to be, underway, are: resurfacing for more… Read More
Flood defences at Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Immingham are due to receive an investment boost of around £5 million which will increase the port’s resilience to flooding in the future. Immingham, which is the UK’s largest port by tonnage, was extensively flooded during the east coast tidal surge of December 2013, which caused… Read More
Hamburg-Sud has become the second shipping line to confirm it will introduce a big ship service to Tauranga, taking advantage of the port’s increased depth following its extensive dredging programme. The seasonal weekly service is scheduled to commence on March 7. The first big ship to visit New Zealand, the 9600 20 foot container equivalent… Read More
Malaysian ports conglomerate MMC Corp elaborated on plans to ramp up capacity at its flagship Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) to cater to growing demand from shippers as well as meet the challenge of Singapore’s new port facilities at Tuas. The two and a half year MYR1bn ($225.8m) expansion project will see PTP boost capacity… Read More
The Treasure Coast this year will take a second shot at changing federal law so Florida communities can buy sand from the Bahamas. Doing so could provide a solution for rapidly eroding Florida beaches and could help protect the Treasure Coast’s sand, which has been eyed by Miami-Dade County, where sand reserves are depleted. Earlier… Read More
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday inaugurated the preliminary survey of the ambitious Brahmaputra Express Highway. The project which will entail construction of two highways, each 840km long, on both banks of the Brahmaputra from Sadiya to Dhubri. Chief Minister has handed over letters to 16 teams of field engineers to carry out land and… Read More