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The city of Cleveland could sell roughly 10 acres of waterfront land to a 116-year-old maritime business, for a shipyard expansion a decade in the making. The Great Lakes Towing Co. operates a fleet of tugboats and oversees the Great Lakes Shipyard, which runs along an old shipping channel that juts west near the mouth… Read More
With a community cost sharing plan back on the table, the city will use part of its share to pay $500,000 of a $2.3 million dredging project at Green Lake, perhaps better known as the “Duck Pond.” Officials with the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District met with City Council earlier this month to discuss the… Read More
China appears determined to begin land reclamation activities at Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. According to a report published Monday by the South China Morning Post citing a “source close to the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) Navy,” China will begin dredging activities there later this year and may ultimately add another airstrip in… Read More
The Regional Maritime University (RMU) in Ghana has signed a training enhancement agreement with Dredging International Services Nigeria (DISN). The agreement is expected to facilitate cooperation between the two entities, particularly in the areas of education and training, consultancy and development in international marine dredging techniques and engineering. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
After 13 years of accumulated silt building up in the Petaluma River, stranding boats and discouraging shippers and yachters from plying these waters, there is finally some potential for movement toward dredging the river. The action is the culmination of a year of meetings between several regional governments all in the same marooned boat, including… Read More
The South Australian Boating Facility Advisory Committee has committed over $500 000 to dredging Pirie River next financial year, ensuring the project will go ahead. The much needed funding will be added to the $1.4 million committed by the Port Pirie Regional Council. As well as dredging, the project includes construction of a rock wall… Read More
The Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission has selected Bill Cork, founder of Cork Consulting Group LLC in Texarkana, Texas, as its new chief executive officer. He succeeds Ashley Edwards, who left to become president of Gulf Coast Business Council. A Marine Corps veteran, Cork earned a bachelor’s in philosophy and master’s degree in urban… Read More
A lawsuit filed by a regional water board accuses the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of violating the federal Clean Water Act during two dredge and fill operations along the Los Angeles River and its tributaries. The suit announced Thursday by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board alleges the Army Corps failed to… Read More
Three options are now on the table to create a new Arkansas River harbor for large container ships in the Fort Smith area, but it may take another consultant’s help to push the project forward with confidence. The Western Arkansas Regional Intermodal Transportation Authority board of directors made no decisions Wednesday but leaned toward seeking… Read More
On Friday, environmental officials announced that they had made final a plan to remove more than a century’s worth of industrial toxins from the lower eight miles of the Passaic, the most dangerously tainted ribbon of the river. The project, officials said, would be among the most ambitious and expensive cleanup efforts in the 35-year… Read More