The Port of Melbourne has completed its dredging project nearly a quarter of a billion Australian dollars under budget.
Victorian premier John Brumby announced the Port Phillip Bay channel deepening project was done A$248m (US$222m) below the estimated target cost, which includes environmental monitoring costs to 2012.
The deepening project is vital to allow bigger vessels into [...]
In one of several stops in the area Monday, U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson met with the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority board and representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis district, at the port to discuss funding options for dredging the port.
The Corps of Engineers was responsible for dredging the port [...]
The Victorian Government has announced its channel deepening project in Port Phillip Bay has been completed a quarter of a billion dollars under budget.
The project cost taxpayers $721 million, including ongoing environmental monitoring costs.
The Minister for Ports Tim Pallas says he is confident the government has dealt with environmental and community concerns throughout the dredging [...]
The Port of Long Beach received approval for a 2011 $716 million budget from the Board of Harbor Commissioners on June 28, 2010 for the continued aggressive investment in environmental and capital improvement projects.
The 2011 budget saw a 19% reduction from the previous year, to keep operating costs in check.
The budget also includes $474 million [...]
Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE) recently completed its scheduled comprehensive, maintenance dredging project, 11 days ahead of schedule and more than two million dollars under budget.
 GROTON, Conn. – Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE) recently completed its scheduled comprehensive, maintenance dredging project, 11 days ahead of schedule and more than two million dollars under [...]
The much-delayed Inner Harbor Navigation Canal lock replacement project, which received no financing in the 2010 federal budget, would also be denied money in 2011 if President Barack Obama’s proposal is adopted by Congress.
Neighborhood opponents of the project, who say hurricane protection, coastal restoration and continued redevelopment after Hurricane Katrina should be the priority for [...]
The proposed 2010 federal budget allocation for the continued dredging of the Port of New York and New Jersey is inadequate and will delay the needed deepening of the harbor, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen said today.
The Morris County Republican expressed a “strong objection” to the Obama administration’s budget request for the harbor work, noting the harbor [...]
