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It’s a comforting thought — a canal that whisks high water from the Comite River into the Mississippi, reducing destructive flooding from Central and north Baton Rouge down through Denham Springs and even parts of Ascension Parish. But to build the long-delayed Comite River Diversion Canal, construction crews will have to dig up and trample… Read More
The Thames-Coromandel District Council is looking to allay fears over dredged material from Furey’s Creek dumped at an authorised cleanfill site recently. The district council carried out soil sediment test on the material after it was contacted by Forest and Bird which expressed concerns over the dumped soil. Thames and Coromandel Area Manager Greg Hampton… Read More
As part of its efforts to enable handling of larger vessels in ports, the Union Shipping Ministry has undertaken an exercise of dredging the existing ports, a senior official said today. The ministry expects at least four ports in the country to be able to handle bigger ships in the next three years. “We are… Read More
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has launched Africa’s first dredging simulator – a computerised training cockpit for aspirant dredger operators – in Durban. The dredging simulator is located at Durban’s Maritime School of Excellence (MSoE) and will form the core of the school’s newly launched Dredging School, which is one of only four worldwide. The… Read More
The port of Antwerp and the port of San Pedro in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa renewed their collaboration with the signing of a new agreement on September 1. San Pedro, the leading cacao port in the world, aims to develop at regional level to become a logistics hotspot for handling commodities such as fertilizers, cashew… Read More
Hanjin Shipping elected to file for court receivership on Tuesday, the first step towards what will be the largest container line bankruptcy in history – six times larger than the collapse of United States Lines three decades ago, the previous record holder. Hanjin operates 98 container ships totalling 600,000 TEU, 11 port terminals and 74… Read More
County supervisors on Aug. 23 awarded a $1.88 million construction contract to Earth Construction & Mining of Garden Grove, Calif. to handle the second phase of dredging portions of Lake Gregory. Trinity Construction of Blue Jay was the next highest bidder with a bid of $2.13 million. Summit Contracting of La Canada entered a bid… Read More
The regional agency in charge of mitigating flood damage around the Amite River met Tuesday for the first time since the river and its tributaries overflowed their banks, wrecking thousands of homes and businesses. The Amite River Basin Commission’s special meeting was short, intended mostly to sign off on some emergency contracts. Commissioners did not… Read More
With analysts and industry observers suggesting commodity prices are finally on the rebound, Provincial Energy Ventures is moving ahead with a $75-million expansion of its coal transshipment pier in Sydney Harbour. The company has spent about $12 million preparing the site since the expansion project was announced in 2012, president Ernie Thrasher said on a… Read More
Securing a deal for a new marina at the Ina Boat Launch could take anywhere from six months to two years, said Jonathon Hallberg, executive director of the Jefferson County Development Corporation. Still, no firm time frame has been set and there are a lot of factors at play, Hallberg said. “This fits into a… Read More