ADPC has announced the next steps in its plans to support the growing cruise business at Zayed Port, Abu Dhabi. Figures for 2012/2013 show a total of 96 vessel calls and 155,000 passengers visited Zayed Port, Abu Dhabi last season. Increasing the cruise business to the city is one of Abu Dhabi’s mai
Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur at the weekend visited the Kwaprow community to inspect progress of work on the dredging of the Kakum River. The visit was a sequel to a similar one last year during which he sympathized with the people on a flood that affected the area, which claimed houses
The Australian Marine Conservation Society has slammed a new multi-million dollar advertising campaign by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association that will muddy the waters over the protection of special places like the Great Barrier Reef from massive industrialisation. APPEA
The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has revealed that the construction of flood barriers along Rangsit Prayoonsak Canal has now been 80% completed and is expected to be fully operational at the end of August. According to Director of the Water Allocation and Drainage Planning of South Rangsit Irri
The major reconstruction of the Stone Harbor beachfront ends with two blocks of work in Avalon on the south side of town. On Sunday morning, July 28th, Norfolk Dredging announced that it has reached the Avalon border and will be doing final beach work at 79th Street and 80th Street in Avalo
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, awards a contract for dredging at Duluth-Superior Harbor in western Lake Superior on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. The $1,393,900 contract was awarded to Roen Salvage Co., of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The firm will dredge 114,000 cubic yards of material
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that it has executed an agreement to use up to 2.4 million cubic yards of sand from the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to restore nearly 14 miles of shoreline for Brevard County, Fla. damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The restoration work will tak
Murmansk Port: Jan De Nul Dredging Fleet Arrives (Russia) A fleet of dredgers of Luxembourg-registered Jan De Nul Group arrived in the waters of the Port of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula. Canada: Cobourg Marina Maintenance Dredging Kicks Off Beginning this week, the Cobourg Marina will be undergo
DCI Dredge XX, a latest second trailer suction hopper dredger (TSHD) of the Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCIL) was joined in the fleet. The dredger that was procured at a cost of Rs. 528 crores from IHC Merwede, The Netherlands, in presence of Shri.M.C.Jauhari, Joint Secretary (Shipping),
Timblo Drydocks based in Goa, India, has signed agreement with Mongla Port Authority for building a complete set of dredging equipment for use of Mongla Port Authority. Western Marine Shipyard will provide full technical support to Timblo in this newbuilding project. This project is worth of USD 8.5
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently joined Geraldine Knatz, Congresswoman Hahn, CM Buscaino, and Colonel Toy (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) in celebrating the completion of the 10-year, $370 million Port of Los Angeles Main Channel Deepening Project. This marks a major milestone in the City and Port
The Italian dredger manufacturer ITALDRAGHE SpA has announced that it will attend the 14th International Mining Exhibition EXPOSIBRAM. This very important industrial event is scheduled for September 23-26th, 2013, in EXPOMINAS Convention Center, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. With 56,475 attendees and 389
The second of its three 5,500 cubic meter trailer suction hopper dredgers will be commissioned today by the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI), reports indiatimes.com. According to DCI chairman-cum-managing director D K Mohanty, after the commissioning ceremony at Chennai Port this vessel will be s
As an important part of the New York Harbor dredging project, blasting program in the Kill Van Kull off Bayonne will proceed for at least another three weeks, according to nj.com. This work will be undertaken between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. and no blasting will be performed on Sundays or Federal Holidays.
