The Environment Agency is launching a public consultation on future plans for managing tidal flood risk and coastal erosion around the shores of the Exe Estuary on January 20, 2013. The draft Exe Estuary Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy takes into account predicted changes in sea l
This week marks the beginning of dredging work in the Tuncurry Channel, near the entrance to Wallis Lake. The state government has chipped in $27,000 towards the project, which will help improve navigation for recreational and commercial boaters. 5,000 cubic metres of sediment will be removed from t
Port & Terminal Technology USA 2013, established as a “must-attend” key industry event, is scheduled for 11 – 12 April, 2013, and will take place at Marriott Waterside Hotel, Norfolk, Virginia. This conference will offer a diverse and in-depth program delivered by an impressive line-up of industry e
The dredging process for a new side channel leading directly to East Port Said commenced on 15 January. The new channel will allow ships coming from the Mediterranean to enter the Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), without hindering the Suez Canal convoys. Ships calling at the SCCT have taken adv
Vila Real de Santo António (VRSA) mayor has revealed the regional development office’s (CCDR) intention to dredge the Guadiana River, making it navigable for larger ships up to Alcoutim. CCDR President David Santos announced the intention last week during the signing ceremony for a protocol to creat
South Korea’s state auditor on Friday panned President Lee Myung-Bak’s $20 billion effort to dredge, dam and beautify four major rivers, saying it was riddled with costly flaws. Revitalizing the Han, Nakdong, Geum and Yeongsan rivers was the centrepiece of the outgoing president’s “Green New Deal”,
Société Merceron TP has won the 3,455,711 EUR dredging contract. This project includes a maintenance dredging work in the Ports of Loctudy and Lesconil, in order to maintain adequate depths in the harbours and access channels. Loctudy is a fishing port and seaside resort in Brittany, France, at the
Port Atlantique de La Rochelle has awarded a dredging contract to Sodranord S.A.R.L. This contract includes the deepening works to -10.0 for Naval access to the Grand Port Maritime de La Rochelle and the creation of a foundation to -14.50 cm for the future of the Anse St. Mark 2 quay producing about
The city of Wedel has introduced a plan for the harbor construction works. This plan includes redesign of the Schulauer harbour in Wedel with: – Planned shortening and backfilling to part of the harbour creating a new Port Gate Square; – Widening of the existing harbour basin; – Redesign the harbour
On the opening day of InfraTech on the 15th of January, it was announced that Iv-Groep won the InfraTech Innovation Prize in the ‘Toegepaste Innovatie’ (Applied Innovation) category for the project ‘Lock Gates Panama Canal’. This year, InfraTech received fifty entries for the InfraTech Innovation Pr
CCI de Bayonne Pays Basque has invited bidders to submit their offers for the construction and commissioning of a mixed use dredger for optimal maintenance dredging of the depths in the mouth of the Port of Bayonne, access channel and base of dock. The characteristics of this vessel assigned to the
The Fife Council has introduced a plan for the dredging project at the Glenrothes area. The project consists of reducing the accumulated silt on the harbour basin floor and entrance channel by an agitation dredging process which will stimulate the particles into temporary suspension in the water, wh
A study commissioned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has identified problems with the groundwater in the vicinity of the Pearce Creek Confined Disposal Facility, a site the Corps seeks to utilize for maintenance dredge sediment from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal southern approach cha
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has approved King County’s updated shoreline master program. The shoreline program will result significantly improve the protection, use, development and restoration of 2,000 miles of shorelines and the water quality of many marine, river, lake, and str
