According to thisiscornwall.co.uk, a small-scale dredging trial in Falmouth Harbour to measure the potential environmental impacts of relocating maerl habitat is set to go ahead this month after Falmouth Harbour Commissioners (FHC) awarded the work to a Chatham-based specialist dredging contractor.
According to kpbs.org, between now and November, crews will take 1.4 million cubic yards of sand resting offshore and boost the sand level at eight beach locations in the San Diego area. A lot of sand will be pumped from the ocean floor onto beaches from the South Bay to North County. “We’ve just ch
Mr. Idris Umar, the Minister of Transport, has assured businessmen in the Calabar that Calabar River will soon be dredged. “Government was not only going to dredge the channel but also looking for a channel manager that would manage same after it had been dredged, as was done with the Lagos and Onne
During General Director A.Lavrishchev’s working visit to the Far East on August, 29 2012, he visited sea ports of Posyet and Zarubino, where was acquainted with the operation of the Vladivostok Branch’s separate structural subdivisions. He also paticipated several working meetings with Torgoviy Port
Gladstone Ports Corporation will begin transitioning toward a light based monitoring programme to protect seagrass in the Gladstone harbour. Under the programme a Dual Water Quality Management Approach will be implemented where both light and turbidity levels will be monitored to address seagrass he
The Baillieu Government is ignoring departmental advice to consider placing Melbourne’s second major container port at Bay West Port, claims the State Opposition. “There are significant environmental and transport concerns about the Government’s preferred choice, Hastings,” the Opposition said. “The
A giant project, a giant ship and a giant achievement. It has been a magnificent and inspiring performance by ADPC staff, contractors and stakeholders, inspired by the wise and supportive leadership of the Abu Dhabi government. “Only four and a half short years after the first dredgers moved into po
GeoSea NV and Barge Master BV have signed a cooperation agreement for the testing and deployment of the first S700/C400 Barge Master platform. The S700/C400 Barge Master is a motion compensation platform that compensates up to 95% of sea-induced motions. The platform can be installed on a supply ves
Godwin Eton is joining Coastline Surveys as a Geotechnical Engineer responsible for preparation of geotechnical reports from offshore and nearshore geotechnical projects, running the soil logging facility and increasing the company portfolio to include pipeline geotechnics and soil-structure interac
Shri G.K. Vasan, the Union Minister of Shipping, has announced the details of capacity and projected capacity on completion of the proposed projects in respect of all Major Ports. These are as follows: [mappress] Dredging Today Staff, September 3, 2012
Following its formal commissioning, the multi-billion Onitsha River Port Complex has begun operations last week. According to thisdaylive.com, the formal unveiling of the Onitsha River Port Complex followed its complete rehabilitation by the Federal Government. “The facility involved the constructio
The vessel Cape Veni is announced to dock the bulk terminal in the Bakar Bay on the 12th of September in 2012. 163. 000 tones of iron ore cargo is to be manipulated from the 290- metre-long ship with the draft of 17,5 metres to the port warehouses with the final destination to the Hungarian [&hellip
The dredging project at the Dania Cut Off Canal has hit rock bottom, according to sun-sentinel.com. David Roach, the director of the Florida Inland Navigation District, the project’s major funder, said: “We hit some harder rock than we had planned on, but we’re going to have to bring in a different
IHC Merwede has successfully launched the largest backhoe dredger in the world on 31 August 2012. The name of the vessel will be revealed at the end of the year during a special ceremony. The launch took place at the shipyard of its cooperation partner, NMC, in Nieuw-Lekkerland, The Netherlands. IHC
