Through the Highway Bill, the House of Representatives is attempting to un-freeze funds from the Harbor Maintenance Fund. The Administration has frozen these funds, which have historically been managed by the Army Corps of Engineers and have been used to dredge larger ports. Late last week, several
According to Pacific Business News, the City and County of Honolulu is taking bids on a contract worth a little more than $5 million to do maintenance dredging on Waimalu Stream. The work would include dredging accumulated sediment on Waimalu Stream and Punanani Channel and disposing of it in the So
Last week, the Dredging Contractors of America (DCA), the national nonprofit trade association for the dredging industry, sent a letter to House leadership in support of the RESTORE Act – legislation that would ensure that oil spill fines are used for gulf restoration. “The RESTORE Act appropriately
Congressman Jeff Landry released the following statement after voting for H.Con.Res. 113 – the Republican Study Committee (RSC) Fiscal Year 2013 Budget (which Congressman Landry cosponsored) – and H.Con.Res. 112 — the Paul Ryan Budget for Fiscal Year 2013: “Today, my colleagues and I did not follow
A fossilised otter skull trawled from the bottom of the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands last year is approximately 9000 years old. This otter fossil was found together with the remains of mammoths and other mammals dating from the ice age. 14C dating shows that this carnivore did not live
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson stated that new geothermal bags were placed at Wares Creek recently. These new bags will be used to speed up the flood control project in this area, reports bradenton.com. After the dredging operations the extracted materials needed to dry out in order to be
Cynthia Villar, former congresswoman, along with hundreds of residents of Las Piñas City appealed to the Supreme Court to stop the implementation of a major land reclamation project, philstar.com reports. The project includes the reclamation of 635.14 hectares of submerged land along the neighbourin
According to Macauhub, the revenues at Mozambican state rail and port management company Empresa Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM) in 2011 rose 20 percent against the previous year and totalled 1.645 billion meticals. The chairman of the Board of Directors of CFM, Rosário Mualeia, said
DMK Union ministers are urging the implementation of the Setusamudram canal project which will widen the narrow Palk Strait that divides India and Sri Lanka, reports zeenews.com. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi were contacted on Thursday and urged to speed up the p
The Summa Group and the Port of Rotterdam Authority may build a new port in Nangang industrial area, China, Kommersant business daily reported on Thursday quoting the port’s CEO Hans Smits as saying. Construction of the new port would probably cost about $2 billion, Infranews agency head Alexei Bezb
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plunged into the first step in preparation for necessary dredging operations of Wachapreague Channel, delmarvanow.com reports. This week they began taking samples from the bottom in the area between channel markers 126 and 121. Boats trying to navigate through this c
As Port Technology reports, the government of Angola has invested US$1.2 billion in the modernization and expansion of the Commercial Port of Lobito, according to the Chairman of the port company, Anapaz de Jesus Neto. This Lobito Port expansion project will increase the African port’s annual capaci
Ecosystem services is a concept that is gaining increasing attention as a means to link ecosystems and development goals. The CEDA Environment Commission (CEC) decided to set up a CEDA Working Group (WGES) to explore the subject in the context of dredging. WGES is to produce a CEDA Information Paper
As tcpalm.com reports, a $2.5 million expansion of the St. Lucie Inlet dredging project is expected to put off the need for the next dredging project by a year. Martin County commissioners voted unanimously to authorize county engineers to negotiate with Norfolk Dredging of Chesapeake, Va., to expan