The stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), commonly used against the gangsters and terrorists, would be invoked against those involved in illegal sand-mining, government said today. Maharashtra Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat stated in the Legislative Council here that “gove
Government ministers and industry game-changers convene in Abu Dhabi as Middle East maritime infrastructure growth meets economic opportunity to create a new seaborne trade superpower. The third annual edition of the World Ports & Trade Summit will be opened tomorrow as global ports, key industry pl
This video shows the newly developed Monitor Gun, designed by HollandMT Dredge Parts BV, operating on the TSHD “St. Pierre”. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. Holland Marine Technologies BV is an engineering & supply company serving intern
Un-restrained collection of sand and pebbles from the Sekmai riverbed has been cited for the acute shortage of drinking water in Kanglatongbi areas. According to some Kanglatongbi residents about 3000 truck loads of sand/pebbles are being collected on a daily basis in the past few years. Contrary to
Craig Smith, Ph.D., Fort Hays University, in his “Economics of Reservoir” presentation at the 2013 Dam Safety Conference priced the cost of dredging Tuttle Creek Reservoir. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. This information originated in h
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District intends to issue an Invitation for Bids (IFB) to perform maintenance dredging in the Arthur Kill, Ward Point Bend and Seguine Point Bend Reaches of the New York and New Jersey Channels, Federal Navigation Project. The Ward Point Bend sediment was t
Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that it is investigating potential claims against Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation concerning possible violations of federal securities laws. The investigation focuses on allegations that certain statements issued by Great Lakes regarding the Company’s o
The trailing suction hopper dredge Rotterdam has completed its work on the Western Basin Dredging and Disposal Project (WBDDP) and is currently demobilising to leave the Gladstone harbour. The Rotterdam arrived in the Gladstone harbour in October 2012 to perform dredging works in order to provide ac
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) met this week with leaders from the Community Alliance of St. Joseph and the St. Joseph Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. During the meeting, Blunt was updated on the activities of the 139th Airlift Wing at Rosecrans Air National Guard Base and concerns regarding the cit
Software users, developers and modellers in the field of water quality and ecology were given access last week to the source code of the Deltares software module DELWAQ. This was another major step forward with the Deltares open source policy, two years after it opened up the Delft3D package (for th
Red7Marine were recently contracted by Centrica to trial SeaVex Excavation equipment on certain areas of Lincs Wind farm, charetring and operating from the DP2 Loch Roag vessel. The project was to initially gauge what areas could be trenched to certain depths in extreme soil conditions ranging from
Meeting during a time when some are calling for sharp cuts in government spending despite the obvious needs to the nation’s infrastructure, members of the MTD Executive Board pledged to work to gain proper funding of vitally important maritime programs. As the board noted in several statements durin
Maintenance dredging will commence later this month at Bandy Creek Boat Harbour prompting a warning to skippers navigating the area to take extra care. Department of Transport (DoT) Manager of Coastal Management Charlie Bicknell said the routine operation, undertaken every two years, maintained the
CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co., Ltd. has recently won the bid for Lot II of the Sea Flower Island reclamation project in Hainan Province, with a contract value of 270 million yuan and a construction period of one year. The project is located in Danzhou, Hainan Province, with reclamation works as the in
