The city is in pursuit of proposal for the dredging of the primary channel leading to the Havre de Grace Yacht Basin. This channel was filled with silt deposited by the flooding from Tropical Storm Lee. It is anticipated that the dredging will comprise 9,000 cubic yards of sediment planned to be mov
The Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) took part in celebrating the festive occasion of the UAE’s 40th National Day by organizing a number of activities and events at the company’s headquarters, its state of the art port project Khalifa Port and at its offices located in the Khalifa Industrial Zone (Kiz
Part of Islanders Beach Park on Hilton Head Island will be closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic starting Thursday as equipment needed to renourish Port Royal Beach is delivered. About 6,000 feet of pipe will be delivered by truck to the site and then taken to the beach for storage and assembly.
The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Omar Suleiman, has assured Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio that the … By Oluwakemi Dauda (thenationonlineng) [mappress] Source: thenationonlineng, November 30, 2011;
The Government has granted the consent for the scheme of constructing a second £400 million ferry terminal at the Port of Dover. The prospect of the project is the port capacity increase and regeneration to part of Dover. Terminal 2 will account for the single biggest development undertaken by Dover
Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC) proposes to conduct maintenance dredging in South Channel in February / March 2012 to remove a naturally occurring build up of sand and ensure that the declared depths of the channel are maintained for the safe operation of shipping to and from the Ports of Melbo
A newly discovered layer of hard rock increased the cost for a Conwy harbor new jetty to £448,031. According to the initial estimation the cost for the project passed in November 2010 was £210,000, however the Conwy council now has to provide additional £50,000 what will be discussed today. A decisi
Chinese contractors building a new port in southern Sri Lanka have finished blasting and clearing a rock blocking the entrance channel whose… (lankabusinessonline) [mappress] Source: lankabusinessonline, November 30, 2011; Image: gov
UK’s busiest car-handling port, the Port of Grimsby, plans to undertake a huge £25m dock expansion. The Port of Grimsby already had 635,000 vehicles pass through the docks in 2010. “The money is to be used to construct a new terminal to handle an increase in car imports“, said Associated British Por
Environmental evaluation for Newcastle’s fourth coal-loader, the Terminal 4 project, has been completed. Port Waratah Coal Services carried out the evaluation addressing possible social and environmental aspects of the project. The evaluation will be lodged with the Department of Planning and Newcas
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a contract in the amount of $7,756,320 to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company for dredging of the Houston Ship Channel. The contractor is required to remove approximately 2.2 million cubic yards of material using a pipeline dredge in Galv
The county’s beach restoration contractors, who have already had to take two winters to dredge and truck sand to the North Beach area, say… By Henry A. Stephens (tcpalm) [mappress] Source: tcpalm, November 30, 2011;
Controversial dredging of Falmouth harbour to pave the way for a £100 million overhaul of the docks could go-ahead within two years, … (falmouthpeople) [mappress] Source: falmouthpeople, November 30, 2011;
Senator Bukola Saraki stated that the National Assembly is planning to deal with the ecological and environmental problems affecting the country. Saraki visited Eletu Bridge, Okekere and a gully erosion site at Ofa Garage in order to obtain first hand information on the issues ravaging the country.
