Indonesian port operator Pelindo II will develop a new hub port in Karawang, West Java, Bisnis Indonesia reported. The new port will have an annual capacity of 10 million TEUs. The state-owned enterprise (SOE) will prepare around US$667 million to develop and operate the port within 5-10 years… [map
A contract for post-lay rock placement for the Nord Stream Project has been awarded to the Dutch joint venture Boskalis-Tideway Offshore. The value of the contract is about 100 million euros. This work is scheduled to start in 2011 and will be completed in 2012… [mappress] Source:oilandgaseurasia,Ap
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin dredging operations early next week in response to an incident early Thursday morning about 3 miles upstream of Grafton near the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. According to officials with the corps’ St. Louis District, a 15-barge… [mapp
No visitor in Korea this week will be more excited to see the completed 33.9-km-long seawall on the country’s southwestern coast than Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. The Saemangeum land reclamation project was recently finished after nearly two decades of work… [mappress] Source:koreatime
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has notified a federal engineering agency that its plans to dredge a shoal off the St. Augustine Inlet could be linked to severe beach erosion several miles to its north in Vilano and South Ponte Vedra beaches. Nelson, D-Fla., wrote the Jacksonville district commander of the Ar
A federal judge ruled that New Jersey’s lawsuit opposing dredging of the Delaware River shipping channel by the Army Corps of Engineers should be heard in the Garden State. The Corps of Engineers had sought to have the case moved to Delaware, where a judge ruled in February that the project could be
Holden Beach has received a 4,500-foot long, 150-foot wide stretch of new sand thanks to the dredging of the Lockwood Folly Inlet between Holden and Oak Island, according to Holden Beach Town Manager David Hewett… [mappress] Source:thesunnews,April 27,2010;
Driving by Harbor City’s 231-acre regional park, Machado Lake looks to be a serene and picturesque oasis. But close up, the reality is harsh. For years the lake, which holds runoff storm water from the area, has collected everything from pesticides to swarms of mosquitoes… [mappress] Source:pasadena
New technology and lessons from old mistakes will help forecast environmental and financial costs of dredging Jacksonville’s harbor before work begins, engineers said Monday at an international conference in Jacksonville. “We’re using the most up-to-date methods and tools that are out there… [mappre
BAYONNE AND BEYOND — Reports from several prominent officials in Hudson County and in Bayonne suggest that city officials are seeking offers to build a container port on the former Military Ocean Terminal site in a blockbuster deal that could help the city retire its entire debt… [mappress] Source:h
PLAQUEMINES PARISH — Plaquemines Parish officials would like to see more projects that dedicate a dredge operation in the Mississippi River for the sole purpose of mining soil from the river’s bottom to build new marsh. That was the case last year with a dredge that was placed in the river… [mappres
Levels of the toxin tributyltin almost 20 times higher than the concentration known to affect the environment have been found at Rous Head, according to Fremantle Ports’ latest environmental monitoring results. The results, published on the port’s website, show the concentration of TBT… [mappress] S
Saugatuck, MI — The entrance to Saugatuck’s harbor has become dangerously shallow this spring, jeopardizing the tourist community’s economy and prompting the city to ask for emergency dredging. The funds, though, aren’t there. “We know there’s a shoal there,” said Tom O’Brien, area engineer of the U
Despite a difficult economic climate in 2009, DEME succeeded in strengthening its position on the national and international markets. Thanks to its strategy of geographical spreading and the diversifi cation of its activities (such as dredging, lifting works, offshore-related and environmental activ
