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In an interim order, National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday directed the Kiranpani Port Private Limited (White Orchid Estate Private Limited) not to undertake dredging at the mouth of River Tiracol without required permissions, till further hearing. NGT has also directed the seven respondents in the case—Kiranpani Port Private Limited government of Goa, Goa coastal… Read More
A Chinese dredging company that is the world’s largest has delayed a planned initial public offering in Hong Kong as it responds to queries from the city’s stock exchange about dredging work done for Beijing in disputed territory in the South China Sea, according to people with knowledge of the matter. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The terminal of Transneft – Port Kozmino LLC (port Vostochny, Primorsky Territory) is going to boost its annual production capacity by 20% to 36 mln t in 2017, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Sergei Dolgikh, the stevedoring company’s Deputy Director General for commodity-transport operations, as saying at the 10th International Congress ‘Oil Terminal 2015’ in Saint-Petersburg…. Read More
There was a time when the Los Angeles River was in danger of becoming a freeway. In 1988, California Assemblyman Richard Katz proposed exactly that. He figured that by turning this concrete drain system of a river into a freeway would ease traffic congestion on the Ventura and Long Beach freeways by as much as… Read More
Three Bays Preservation and Mass Audubon Society are seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Nantucket Sound and Cotuit Bay. The plans call for the dredging of 133,600 cubic yards of clean sand from a 218,400-square-foot area to be placed on Dead Neck Sampson’s Island in Osterville. The majority of… Read More
The Port St. Joe Port Authority recently took the next step in developing the Port of Port St. Joe. The Port Authority board officially entered into a joint participation agreement (JPA) with Hatch Mott MacDonald engineers and the Florida Department of Transportation. The agreement is for Hatch Mott to initiate the work on the design… Read More
India’s Ministry of Shipping has updated its guidelines for awarding capital and maintenance dredging contracts at major state-owned ports. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
If Margate didn’t want dunes, it should have challenged the project more than a decade ago. That was the message from state’s attorney Stephen Eisdorfer Friday afternoon during a 75-minute court hearing on the battle over the plan to seize dozens of city-owned properties as part of a larger dune project. The two sides argued… Read More
The Greater Lafourche Port Commission received national attention for a project that restored about a mile of beach and dune habitat near Port Fourchon. The American Association of Port Authorities awarded the commission the 2015 Environmental Enhancement Award for the project, which bolsters the port’s first line of defense against hurricanes and storm surge. The… Read More
Presque Isle Advisory Committee members are concerned about contaminants. The group has questions about a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal to use material dredged from Erie’s harbor to build up Presque Isle’s Gull Point. “Is the potential harm or contamination worth what we really get out of this?” park Operations Manager Matt Greene asked…. Read More
The city of Lebanon and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District held a signing ceremony today that signals the beginning of a Flood Risk Management Study of the Bartons Creek watershed. The study includes Bartons and Sinking Creeks and will look at measures to reduce flood risk as well as provide the city with… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District has released documents that have been submitted to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, requesting a Clean Water Act Section 401 water quality certification for open lake placement of dredged sediment from the upper Cuyahoga River federal navigation channel associated with its scheduled 2016 dredging of Cleveland… Read More
A harbourmaster has highlighted the “tremendous importance” of dredging, as controversial plans to dredge a port in Cornwall are drawn up for resubmission. The Marine Management Organisation has so far blocked plans to dredge Falmouth Harbour since they were first proposed in 2004, due to environmental concerns. Capt Mark Sansom said Falmouth Harbour was too… Read More
The MEPA Board refused to give planning permission for the renewal of PA 4819/07 to continue the incomplete dredging works as part of the existing Terminal 1 West Quay of the Malta Freeport in close proximity of the residential area of Birzebbugia. This refusal was based on the SPED Document’s Social Economic Development Thematic Objectives… Read More
Comments on a proposed Trinity River channel improvement project will be accepted in a public meeting set for Wednesday 2 December 2015 from 6.30 to 8.30pm, at the Moose Lodge, 71 Lewiston Turnpike Rd in Lewiston. Staff from the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control board… Read More