The Manager, Calabar Free Port, Mr Ahmed Dandare has advised the Federal Government to restructure the ports in the coutry along specialised imports.
Dandare gave the advice while conducting maritime correspondents round the port’s facilities on Wednesday in Calabar.
He said by such an arrangement, Apapa port could handle containers, while Tin-Can Island port would handle general [...]
Federal government has been charged to dredge the Calabar port channel as a matter of urgency to improve shipping activities in the state, as well as create employment opportunity for youths in the country.
The charge came from stakeholders who meet in Calabar recently to look at the economic benefits of dredging the Calabar port channel. [...]
A Halifax company has won a contract worth nearly $1 million to inspect federal government dredging and breakwater construction and wharf repair projects in Nova Scotia.
Project Consultants Ltd. was the lowest bidder on a two-year standing offer capped at $982,370.
“We provide the inspectors and the inspectors actually report directly to Public Works,” Ian Rankin, the [...]
With a federal grant in hand, Box Elder County is partnering with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to remove 40 years worth of buildup from the Dejarnatt Sediment Basin adjacent to Howell Reservoir.
Jeff Schick, district conservationalist with the NRCS, said the funding is coming through the Emergency Watershed Program at a 75-25 cost split [...]
Federal authorities have ordered the state to stop dredging east of the Mississippi River, where sand from the Gulf bottom is being gathered to build barriers against encroaching oil, Gov. Bobby Jindal said.
Jindal and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said federal authorities want the state to move a dredging site farther from the Chandeleur Islands, [...]
The federal government is worried over the shallow draft of Eastern ports water channels of Calabar, Port Harcourt and Warri, a situation that has created a lull in port activities as fewer ships call at the ports in comparison with ports in Lagos.
The maximum draft of the channel to Calabar is 6.4 meters. The [...]
The Federal Government has expressed disappointment over the shallow and shoddy manner at which the consultant firm handled the Baro, Lot 5 of Lower River Niger dredging project, lamenting that incoherent activities of the consultant has resulted in the extension of the completion of the project by another five months.
Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman [...]
Nova Scotia’s premier is putting pressure on the federal government to decide whether it will provide funding to dredge Sydney harbour.
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality has already agreed to contribute $2 million, but the Nova Scotia government has not yet committed any funds.
Premier Darrell Dexter has repeatedly said he is waiting to hear from Ottawa, [...]
KINGSTON – The offices of two firms connected to a dredge site in Hazleton were searched Tuesday by agents with several federal offices, including the U.S. Department of Defense.
More than a dozen agents spent several hours removing dozens of boxes of evidence from 580 Third Ave. in Kingston, which houses the offices of Fort Mifflin [...]
CONCORD, Mass. – At the request of the Bridgeport Port Authority, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Federal navigation channel in Bridgeport Harbor in Bridgeport, Conn. The Draft Environmental Assessment for this proposed work is available for review and public comment through March 26, [...]
