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A documentary about flooding on the Somerset Levels has reignited old debates about the effectiveness of dredging to reduce flooding. An episode of the BBC programme Countryfile series aired on Sunday featured presenter Tom Heap looking at how dredging could impact on water management, for good and bad. Somerset Rivers Authority chairman John Osman defended… Read More
The Port of Hong Kong is losing its prominent place on global trade maps. The city’s port, which was the world’s busiest as recently as a decade ago, slid to No. 5 after a steep drop in container business last year. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The sand we spread our towels on in visits to the Delaware beach towns was once at the bottom of the sea, before engineers pumped it onto the shoreline in a wave of beach replenishment projects. That work has gone on so long that scientists have acquired good guesses of just how much available sand… Read More
Pernem police have registered a first information report (FIR) against officials of Kiranpani Port Private Limited for allegedly dredging River Tiracol at Keri without valid permissions from competent authorities, Pernem police inspector (PI) Devendra Gad said. The FIR has been registered based on a complaint filed by Sachin Parab and citizens of Keri, Tiracol, Paliem… Read More
Goenchea Ramponkarancho Ekvott (GRE) has slammed the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari for haphazardly approving the dredging of the MPT navigation channel. It has alleged that the MPT is acting highhandedly by not taking the State authorities into consideration or consulting the traditional fishermen and their associations/unions. GRE has demanded that… Read More
Conditions at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor are the perfect storm of recent years, good or bad, depending on the viewer’s perspective. Boaters have spent weeks locked inside the harbor after years of drought-dry winters, while experienced local surfers are sliding in for rare wave access. Surfer and photographer Dave Nelson was reluctant to… Read More
Nearly a third of New Jersey’s beaches were heavily damaged during the weekend blizzard and nor’easter, which attacked the southern shoreline with greater ferocity, state environmental officials said on Thursday. Nineteen of New Jersey’s 66 beaches stretching from the bay shore of the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of the Delaware Bay, sustained major erosion… Read More
The Georgia Ports Authority grew import volumes through Savannah at rates far exceeding its Southeast competitors and the U.S. as a whole, in large part by attracting big-box retailers such as Home Depot, Target and IKEA to establish import distribution centers nearby. But forces coming to bear on the retail industry, including e-commerce and a… Read More
68 gull-billed terns, discernible by their black, gull-like bills, could make or break the future of the port of Hamburg. The creatures – on the red list of most endangered birds – tend to breed 40 miles to the south of the port every summer by the banks of the river Elbe and are the… Read More
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing a $41.3 million project to dredge PCBs and other pollution from the Hudson River at the former BASF industrial dye factory on Riverside Avenue. DEC wants dredging in the river to remove volatile organics, and toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium, copper, mercury, zinc and arsenic, that… Read More
Global port operator DP World is betting on growth in Asia’s third biggest economy and has announced that it will seek opportunities in India worth over USD1 billion in the next few years. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
A federal judge in Seattle has dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and others that sought to stop dredging of the Snake and Clearwater rivers to make way for barges. U.S. District Court Judge James L. Robart said in his Tuesday ruling that the plaintiffs were wrong on the merits of… Read More
HYC – Howth Yacht Club has posted a draft letter for all club members and harbour users to send to their public representatives highlighting the urgent need to dredge Howth Harbour. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, levels of silt build-up in the North Co Dublin harbour have accumulated to around 1.5 metres, rendering low-water spring-tide… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offered two amendments Wednesday to a controversial 30-year federal plan for disposing of tens of millions of cubic yards of dredged materials in two open-water sites in Long Island Sound. The EPA’s proposals are aimed at encouraging alternative uses for sand and silt dredged up from harbors and marinas in… Read More
The shipping industry is likely losing millions of dollars a day in lost cargo space aboard ocean-going vessels attempting to enter and exit the sediment-clogged mouth of the Mississippi River, in part because the Army Corps of Engineers has had a hard time enticing private industry companies to dredge Southwest Pass, industry officials said Wednesday…. Read More