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Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) reports a 21% increase in worldwide machine retail sales for the rolling three-month period ending in September, slightly lower than in the prior three months. The North American region sported the strong growth rate for the period, rising 28% Y/Y after rising 29% in the prior three-month period, while Latin America sales jumped… Read More
A lawsuit was filed against the Humboldt Bay Harbor Recreation and Conservation District by the Humboldt Fishermen’s Marketing Association and Trinidad Bay Fishermen’s Association. The two fishing groups are suing over a long list of allegations that include alleged dredging failures and money management issues among other things. The lawsuit was filed in September. “Our… Read More
As beachside communities begin rebuilding in the wake of two catastrophic hurricane impacts on the United States, they should ask whether beach nourishment offers enough protection from erosion and flooding. Hurricane Michael recently struck Florida’s panhandle as a devastating category 4 storm packing 155mph winds. Barely a month earlier, Hurricane Florence flooded North Carolina when… Read More
In addition to the wastewater public service delegation contract for Greater Bordeaux recently signed by the city’s mayor Alain Juppé and Antoine Frérot, Veolia Eau France (Paris:VIE) has won a new series of contracts with new municipalities. From Côte de Nacre to Dinan, and Givors to Cannes Pays de Lérins, these successes represent cumulative revenue… Read More
This article appeared in The Baltimore Sun on October 11, 2018. The success in renegotiating NAFTA offers a useful opportunity to look back over 25 years to its first passage and its impact on one Baltimore company, Ellicott Dredges. Ellicott, which was already a 100-plus year old manufacturer and exporter of dredging equipment (its dredges… Read More
There’s something apocalyptic about this pond on the east side of San Francisco Bay, California. The legacy of a salt industry that has moved elsewhere, it has subsided a couple of meters below the level of neighboring marshland. Algae paints red swirls in the brown water, and the pond’s edge is crusted hard with sparkling… Read More
In the first nine months of 2018, the Port of Corpus Christi reached a new milestone, setting a new tonnage record of 79.3 million tons. This surpasses the previous record of 77.9 million tons set in the first nine months of 2015, while also eclipsing the same period in 2017 by 4 million tons, an… Read More
When it comes to sucking a layer of sand and silt off the floor of Lake Tashmoo and moving it to a nearby beach, the men of the Edgartown dredge crew each have a job. Peter Jackson operates the anchor boats, hauling up the dredge’s two anchors and moving them incrementally up and down either… Read More
The prime minister said the government in its National Integrated Multimodal Transport Policy has put forward a strategy that will seek to strengthen the position of inland waterways in the transport system Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday underscored the need for proper utilization of the maritime sector for massive socioeconomic development of the people of… Read More
Dredging is the removal of sediments and debris from the bottom of the sea, lakes, rivers, harbors, and other water bodies. It is a routine necessity in waterways around the world because sedimentation-the natural process of sand and silt washing downstream – gradually fills channels and harbors. Dredging often is focused on maintaining or increasing… Read More
The Royal Phuket Marina, working closely with the Marine Department in Phuket, has completed dredging the marina basin and access channel, increasing the depth to two metres at the lowest tide and enabling motor boats upto 35 metres round- the-clock access. “The recent dredging programme is part of our ongoing commitment to customers and our… Read More
The port authority announced it found ways to solve the channel dredging issue that is a considerable burden on the resources of the Douala Autonomous Port (PAD). “With support from the Government, two dredgers are being acquired. A 3000 m3 operating suction dredger and a stationary suction dredger. In addition to these new acquisitions, the… Read More
Eight conservation and environmental groups plan to sue the state for tapping an environmental fund to finance a $98 million package of infrastructure projects in a way that they say violates the Minnesota Constitution and betrays voters’ trust. The Environmental and Natural Resource Trust Fund, which receives about $60 million a year in proceeds from… Read More
An often-overlooked aspect of the river transportation industry is dredging or the excavation of river bottoms and shores. Not only is dredging crucial to maintaining the depth and width of channels to keep them navigable for towing vessels, the sediment collected by dredges is often used to replenish sand lost on beaches due to coastal… Read More
SETTING a contrast in the heavy traffic of vehicles above the Marcos bridge, was a calm Cagayan river one afternoon Friday, September 28. It was a low tide, and no signs of rainfall throughout the day or evening. In the riverside along Barangay Consolacion, there were wide, barge-like boats docked, some trucks parked, and men… Read More