Denis Lebel, Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs, accompanied by Mr. Gaétan Boivin, President and CEO of the Trois-Rivières Port Authority (TRPA), yesterday announced a major investment to improve the Port of Trois-Rivières. The project includes the reconstruction o
China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC), a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company, recently won a bid for the EPC project (engineering, procurement and construction) in Marunda Industrial Park, Indonesia. The bid is for the Lot 1B of the central terminal project with a contract valu
Sorn Chandara, Dim Kundy and Chek Netra, three environmental activists of the network Mother Nature, were arrested last week while attempting to hold a peaceful demonstration in front of the National Assembly in Phnom Penh. Mother Nature’s activists were attempting to gather and submit a petition to
The Murray Mouth dredging project, aimed to maintain connectivity between the river and the Southern Ocean, is in its final phase now – with the construction works likely to be completed within next few days. Dredging operations at the Mouth began on January 9th 2015 and as of the last week over 515
An extraordinary meeting of Shoalhaven City Council, scheduled for this Tuesday, will discuss the tender for the Shoalhaven dredging project. Council called selective tenders following an expression of interest process to undertake dredging works and beach nourishment at Lake Conjola, Currambene Cre
The State Information Service said that about 232.800 million cubic meters of water-saturated sand has been dredged so far as part of the Suez Canal Development Project. This represents 90.6 percent of a total 258 million cubic meters that should be dredged, the Head of the Suez Canal Authority, Moh
A working session chaired by Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Viktor Olerskyi, dedicated to current issues and future plans of Korsakov Sea Port, was held recently at the Sakhalin Branch office in Korsakov Sea Port. The meeting was attended by Deputy Head of Rosmorrechflot Alek
Under the Regulation Project-Phase 2 of the Yangtze River’s deepwater channel at Nanjing, CCCC First Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. has won the bid for the regulation of Hechangzhou waterway, with a construction period of 33 months. With a full length of some 227 kilometers, the Phase 2 segment involv
The European Commission is further delivering on its top priority of creating jobs and boosting growth in Europe, by unveiling a record €13.1 billion investment plan in 276 transport projects, selected under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). This investment will unlock additional public and priv
The Board of Directors of the Georgia Ports Authority today re-elected James A. Walters of Gainesville to serve as chairman. Appointed to the GPA board by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal in 2012, Walters just completed his first one-year term as chairman, having previously served as vice chairman. “At a ti
The 36th world congress of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) started yesterday and will last until July 3, 2015. The congress, being held in Delft and the Hague, the Netherlands, will cover a wide range of fields related to hydro-environmental scienc
Broward County’s Port Everglades has received a signed Chief of Engineers Report from the USACE that clears the way for the Port to begin the next phase of deepening and widening its channels, and allows the project to be included in federal legislation expected in 2016 that will authorize similar w
Panama Canal Expansion – June 2015 (VIDEO) A new video has just been released on the Panama Canal Expansion Program, the largest infrastructure project since the waterway’s original construction. Long-Term Dredging Deal for DEME Ok Tedi Mining Ltd. (OTML) has awarded to Dredging International, mem
Royal IHC has just released this video of the naming and launch ceremony of the 5,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger ILEMBE, which took place on Saturday, 9 May, 2015 at Royal IHC’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. The dredger is being built for Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), t
