The commencement ceremony of the early start-up engineering of Lekki Deepwater Port Project in Nigeria was held on the scene of proposed port area of Lagos Free Trade Zone on July 17th, 2012. The value of contract for the port project is around USD 680 million and the construction duration is 42 mon
Recently, CCCC Tianjin Dredging Co., Ltd. has won the bid for the soft foundation treatment of the construction zone in the north of the northern basin in Tianjin Harbor Economic Zone, Tianjin, with a contract value of 460 million yuan and a construction period of 371 days. The project is an EPC pro
At a special meeting yesterday, the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority took action on two important matters, the Port Authority’s application to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a permit for improvements to the Bayport Ship Channel, and the Port Authority’s formal response to the T
A month after Queen Beatrix gave the starting signal for the conclusion of the Maasvlakte 2 seawall, it is clearly visible from the air that the protection of the newest part of The Netherlands against the sea is ready. From late October, both road and rail on Maasvlakte 2 will go into use. Seawall
During a meeting with Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Rogelio Singson, and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino, the Metro Manila mayors were given the marc
The government will soon finalise the modalities for two new Major Ports in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, according to Exim India. These new ports will help in creating a target capacity of 244 million tonne through 42 projects, which will cost R14,500 crore in 2012-13. A plan for 2012-13 also inc
As part of the SANDAG’s Regional Beach Sand Project, at the end of August more than 400,000 cubic yards of sand will come to Imperial Beach. According to imperialbeach.patch.com, the dredger “Liberty Island“ is traveling to San Diego to pump sand from waters near Mission Beach onto the Imperial Beac
The town Mayor Mario Magno has announced that the San Enrique dredging project will begin in the fall, probably October. Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. said: “The provincial government-owned dredger is now clearing waterways in EB Magalona and the work is almost halfway done, but already, flooding has bee
Since April, a massive clamshell dredge floating off the marina has collected sand and loaded it onto barges bound for the port of Long Beach, which needs the material for a harbor redevelopment project. Starting Thursday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ multimillion-dollar dredging operation will
The New York District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposes to perform maintenance dredging of the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway Federal Navigation Project, NY, in the Moriches Bay section of the channel. The proposed maintenance dredging, which consists of a basic requirement and an option, wou
The Delta Regional Authority has announced that the dredging at the Hickman and Fulton County Riverport was due to begin this week and be completed by the end of the week. Without the dredging project, this port would have been closed for a minimum of 3 to 4 weeks, according to newschannel5.com. The
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel appointed a former South Carolina U.S. Rep. John Spratt to mediate a lawsuit challenging the $650 million deepening of the Savannah River shipping channel, The State reports. During his 28 years in the U.S. House representing South Carolina’s 5th Congressional Dist
Yesterday, Senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown joined a bipartisan group of 25 Senators in calling for full use of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for maintenance of the nation’s harbors. “For far too long, Washington has skimmed off Harbor Maintenance Tax funds for purposes unrelated to ports
On 14th August 2012 AB Klaipedos nafta and state enterprise Klaipeda State Seaport Authority has signed Additional Agreement to the General Bilateral Agreement on Development of Infrastructure/Suprastructure of the Klaipeda Seaport. Amongst other things, parties have agreed on preliminary estimated