Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) was established in 1976 to provide integrated dredging services to the Major Ports of the Country. DCI is a Mini Ratna Category-I Public Sector Undertaking under the administrative control of Ministry of Shipping, Government of India.
The Company has been upgraded to Schedule “B” from “C” during the year [...]
The EPA is designating the Guam Deep Ocean Disposal Site (G-DODS) as a permanent ocean dredged material disposal site (ODMDS) located offshore of Guam. Dredging is essential for maintaining safe navigation at port and naval facilities in Apra Harbor and other locations around Guam.
Beneficial re-use of dredged material (e.g., for habitat creation, construction material, or [...]
One Great Lakes Restoration Initiative the EPA will fund is located in Brown County, off the shore of Green Bay. Aquatic biologist Victoria Harris works for the U-W Sea Grant Institute.
She says the $1.5 million dollar federal grant, added to $5 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will help restore a series of [...]
Maryville City Council Tuesday night approved on first reading a partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Greenbelt Lake.
The city’s 35 percent match to the $3.1 million project is estimated at $710,032. Some of that will be in-kind services performed by city crews.
The city has $385,000 in grant funds right now so [...]
As one of the GCC’s biggest developments of the year, the multi-billion dollar Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone (KPIZ) project is one that no contractor can afford to ignore. Covering a total area of 420km2, it is four times the size of Abu Dhabi island, two-thirds the size of Singapore and 25% of the land [...]
Sri Lanka Ports Authority has signed a $450 million arrangement with China Merchants Holdings and local conglomerate Aitken Spence to expand Colombo port’s cargo handling capacity.
The joint venture will result in the construction of three terminals in Colombo port adding a total 7.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) on top of the port’s current 4.5 [...]
The inordinate delay in completing the capital dredging work for the Vallarpadam ICTT project may lead to the postponement of the soft launch of the project’s operations scheduled for later this month by the terminal operator DP World.
Informed sources in the port told Business Line that the terminal operator had made it clear to the [...]
The St. Martin Parish Council voted Tuesday to hire Sellers and Associates, of Abbeville, as the engineers on the Bayou Du Portage, locally known as drainage project near Lake Dauterive and Lake Fausse Point.
The measure passed 7-0 with councilmen Lloyd “Red” Higginbotham and James Hebert absent.
The project, which is projected to cost $5 million, is [...]
Dredging of Pomphery’s Pond will start on Sept. 15, the date promised to East River Road residents by state and local officials in July. State Department of Environmental Protection officials and Mayor John Ekdahl confirmed that the dredging will start on Sept. 15, the day that a wildlife protection period ends.
“As soon as that period [...]
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation – the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of commercial and industrial demolition services – today announced changes to its executive management effective immediately. Douglas B. Mackie, President and Chief Executive Officer, has decided with the Board of Directors to resign his [...]
