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Whether it’s deepening navigation channels or keeping them at current depths, port authorities on all three U.S. coasts are finding the purse strings, especially in Washington, increasingly tight. And as the 2016 elections approach, they would like nothing better than to get the politicians’ attention. But port issues, unfortunately, are seldom of the hot-button variety… Read More
RICHMOND MP Rishi Sunak has pressed Environment Agency bosses to consider dredging rivers more frequently to lessen the impact of future flooding. He also urged them to be less remote, to engage more with local people and tap into their knowledge. Mr Sunak questioned the Agency’s chief executive Sir James Bevan about the EA’s record… Read More
The dispute between the Port of Cleveland and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers heated up again this week after Army brass obtained a cut of more than $3 million in funds budgeted for dredging the Cuyahoga River shipping channel. Port of Cleveland President & CEO Wil Friedman wrote to Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob… Read More
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said “common sense” needed to be applied in the debate over dredging the River Shannon as he insisted works would be carried out . Mr Kenny has rejected claims that European laws have stopped dredging on the river and thereby contributed to the devastating floods of recent weeks. There have been tensions… Read More
This review of the global dredging market focuses on the situation in 2014 and was published in December 2015. IADC is always very thorough and precise in estimating the dredging turnover. By verification of data this document is continuously improved. About IADC IADC stands for “International Association of Dredging Companies” and is the global umbrella… Read More
The European Commission has rejected suggestions that EU laws are to blame for the recent severe flooding in Ireland. A spokeswoman for the European Commission said member states decide their own rules on how to manage their water courses. The comment follows criticism from groups and representatives in the UK and Ireland that EU legislation… Read More
BEACHES under attack from erosion in Sorrento, Frankston and Carrum will share in a $4.8 million plan to protect Port Phillip Bay. The State Government says it will commit to annual monitoring of bay beaches while spending the millions on renourishing beaches at Sandringham, Sorrento West, Eastern Beach Geelong, St Helens and Moorpanyal, Hampton, Frankston… Read More
There has been mounting opposition to the proposed dredging of the navigational channel at MPT and plans to introduce seaplane trips and construction of jetties and marinas off the Vasco coast. Plans announced by Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari after he flagged off the dredging work of the navigational channel on Friday… Read More
A Partylist Representative here has called on government leaders to devise a clear-cut solution to save billions of pesos in agriculture losses in region 2 as an aftermath of natural disasters. In an interview aired by a local radio station here, Partylist Representative Silvestre Bello III made the call after the province registered P1.8 billion… Read More
The government has directed all its 12 state-owned ports to finalize capital and maintenance dredging contracts on the basis of open competitive bidding, according to the new guidelines framed by the shipping ministry. Capital dredging is for increasing the depth of navigational channels while maintenance dredging is to maintain depths. The guidelines give details of… Read More
The awarding of a public-private-partnership contract to DP World for the construction and operation of International Container Transshipment Terminal, also known as Vallarpadam Terminal, at India’s Port of Cochin has come under fire from the country’s public spending watchdog. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
With the potential for hundreds of legal skirmishes on the horizon over beach replenishment in New Jersey, an attorney representing oceanfront homeowners wants a Superior Court judge to get more closely involved in the case. But the request to have Judge Marlene Lynch Ford manage New Jersey’s fight to get the access rights to the… Read More
Sometime in early 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will begin examining whether General Electric successfully removed harmful chemicals from the Hudson River as part of its dredging project that concluded this year, the Villager reports. That’s a whole year earlier than when the EPA was scheduled to carry out the review. The expedited examination… Read More
Controversial rules on dredging rivers imposed by the European Union have contributed to the flooding which has wrought devastation across the UK, it was claimed last night. Brussels bureaucrats, driven by green ideology, have effectively banned dredging which might have prevented rivers bursting their banks, say critics. Dredging, which took place for centuries on Britain’s… Read More
The state known for the “Preserve the Sound” license plate is having a crisis of conscience over a dredging boom planned by the federal government in Connecticut waters. From cargo shipping lanes in Bridgeport to the silted-in narrows of the Byram River in Greenwich, lawmakers say the push by the Army Corps of Engineers could… Read More