A Notice to Mariners has been posted for Rudee Inlet due to serious shoaling conditions. Reported conditions indicate a least depth from 4.5 feet MLLW (mean lower low water), across the inbound channel, starting at the approximate east end of the north jetty, and extending approximately 250 feet. Ma
The Ennore Port Ltd (EPL) will come out with a 10-year tax-free bond to raise about Rs.1,000 crore to meet its major ongoing projects, according to thehindu.com. S. Velumani, EPL’s Chairman-cum-Managing Director, stated that the raised amount would be used to fund the ongoing capital dredging work o
On Monday, Dec. 3, at 10 a.m. the public is invited to participate in the third and final bi-monthly conference call of the year regarding the Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Study. A schedule for 2013 conference calls is expected soon. About JAXPORT The vision of the Jacksonville Port Authority is to
The Port Hedland Port Authority was awarded the “Port of the Year” at the 17th Annual Lloyd’s List Australian Shipping & Maritime Industry Awards in Sydney last night. The event attracted more than 400 senior industry executives from Australia’s shipping, ports and maritime industry, making it one o
Taylor Engineering will provide the City of Destin with construction administration and post-construction services for the Western Destin Beach Restoration Project. Construction administration tasks include conducting pre-construction meetings and reviewing contractor submittals, construction admini
During the last week of October, 2012, the passage of Hurricane Sandy in the Atlantic Ocean, while well offshore of the St. Lucie Plant site, caused high seas and significant erosion of the protective dune along the shoreline of the FPL’s property. Specifically, the erosion destroyed a newly constru
The color-coded depth maps of the navigation channel lined each the top of table – each map in front of a stakeholder who wanted the same thing as the person in the next seat. The Corps of Engineers map wasn’t necessary for Chad Saunders. He knew the depths. And he knew what was needed. “My [&hellip
Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the Perkpolder area development project. The project, commissioned by RWS (the Dutch public works agency), concerns a new nature area situated outside the protection zone of the dikes in the Westerscheldt estuary (southwest Netherlands). The contract value
Taylor Engineering has assembled a team of dredging experts to provide the City of Dunedin with a cost-effective means to compile pertinent field data and regulatory information to evaluate the feasibility of dredging Lake Sperry and portions of Cedar Creek. The firm will provide professional engine
On behalf of the Florida Inland Navigation District, Taylor Engineering will support a proposed project that would deepen the Intracoastal Waterway in vicinity of Ponce de Leon Inlet in Volusia County and deposit the dredged material within the constructed MSA 434 dredged material management area fa
Public Consultation on the European Commission Green Paper entitled “Marine Knowledge 2020: from seabed mapping to ocean forecasting” is open until 15 December 2012. The idea behind this paper is the need to unlock the economic potential of Europe’s wealth of marine observations. With the ‘Marine Kn
The American Waterways Operators, National Waterways Conference, Waterways Council, Inc., and 15 other national organizations submitted a letter to President Obama and the Federal Emergency Management Agency requesting a presidential declaration of emergency and seeking “immediate assistance in aver
Field trials carried out by Deltares have shown that a peat substrate is stronger than was previously thought. The trials lasted a year and were performed during reinforcement work on the Markermeer dike between Hoorn and Amsterdam. The dike, built on peat soil, no longer complied to the latest safe
Western Dredging Association has announced that the 2013 WEDA Midwest chapter meeting will be taking place in St. Louis, MO on April 17-19, 2013. The conference will be held at the HoteLumière hotel and casino on the bank of the Mississippi River. Participants and presenters are sought regarding bes
