Illegal activities: Enforcement officers inspecting the barge that was detained off the coast of Penggerang on Saturday. PENGGERANG: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has detained a tugboat and barge for allegedly dumping dredging silt at an unauthorised area here. [mappress] Source: Star, J
INDIALANTIC — Hurricane Wilma, tropical storms Fay and Noel, and a few Nor’easters stole the sand that lures tourists here. [mappress] Source: floridatoday,January 10,2010;
Decision follows Corps construction contract for channel extension Port Corpus Christi decided to proceed with the design of a multi-purpose dock and terminal project to be constructed on the port’s 1,000-acre site at La Quinta. [mappress] Source:joc,January 8,2010;
MUCK REMOVAL: The unwanted sediment is called many names: goo, ooze, muck, slurry. [mappress] Source: tcpalm,January 9,2010;
The Corps, in Buffalo, N.Y., applied for a water quality certification for the project, which includes the Maumee River and lake approach channel. [mappress] Source: The Press, January 7, 2010;
Wrightsville Beach is still hoping that its beaches might be nourished before Masonboro Island’s as Great Lakes Dredging begins phasing in equipment Dredge and Dock for stage one, of a two-stage program to nourish the barrier island beaches. Source: Lumina News, January 7, 2010;
With soaring dredging prospects, more and more shipping companies and port operators are taking the dredging route in India to boost their revenues. Source: Maritime Professional, January 4, 2010
Listed Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has lodged resource consent applications to deepen its navigation channel for larger vessels, at a cost of up to $100 million; a process Port Otago hopes to follow during the next few months. [mappress] Source: Otago Daily Times, January 8, 2010;
NAIROBI — China will finance the building of a second port in Kenya, a transport corridor and the upgrading of a railroad linking Kenya’s Mombasa port and the Ugandan capital, a statement said Wednesday. Source: AFP, January 6, 2009
SYDNEY — The marine group promoting the dredging of the harbour and construction of a container terminal has scheduled a news conference for Thursday to announce what the Sydney Ports Corp. is calling a unique development. [mappress] Source: capebretonpost,January 6,2010
VILLAGERS in Koh Kong province say they continue to suffer from large-scale sand-dredging operations in coastal estuaries, which they add have reduced fish catches and threatened the livelihoods of thousands of local fishermen. [mappress] Source: The Phnom Phen Post, January 6, 2010
Nearly five years after regional water-pollution cops announced a landmark order to clean toxic muck in San Diego Bay, they’re back with a plan that would remove just 16 percent of the sediment targeted initially. [mappress] Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 6, 2009
A $70MILLION project is being proposed for a diversion canal to prevent further flooding in Nadi town. [mappress] Source: Fiji Times, January 6, 2010;
Dhaka — Beginning next month, India will dredge Ichhamati river in Bangladesh and the south Asian neighbours will for the first time cooperate to protect the banks of the rivers they share. [mappress] Source: Asian-Indo News Service, January 6, 2010;