Kandla and Paradip ports are in negotiations with the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) to develop a new dredging strategy, reports thehindubusinessline.com. This new plan will include the new joint ventures between the mentioned sides and also doing busines
ARCADIS, the leading pure play global engineering and consultancy firm, has won a contract with Aqaba Development Corporation in Jordan for providing construction management services and design reviews for their “Aqaba New Port Project”. ARCADIS works in a joint venture with the local company Dar Al
As a way of guarding against a recurrence of flooding in Kwara State and its environs, the state government has called on Federal Government to take urgent steps towards dredging River Niger. The Commissioner for Environment and Forestry, Barr. Kayode Towoju, who made the call during an interview wi
Work to deepen the Castle Rock Cut-Off at Lake Powell continues this week. Dredging began last week. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area spokesperson Denise Schultz says workers using special equipment to deepen the cut so it may stay passable for boaters year round. Loa, Utah based contractor Brow
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced a plan for the Baltimore Harbor maintenance dredging program. The project will consist of maintenance dredging of approximately 500,000 cubic yards of material from various Federal channels in Baltimore Harbor. It is anticipated that the work would be perfo
During a recent South Carolina Ports Association (SCPA) meeting the twelfth straight month of year-over-year growth was noted. Container volume for the first eight months of the fiscal year are up more than 11 percent to 1,024,121 TEUs handled from July to February, up from 920,547 TEUs during the s
Halosource, Inc, the clean water technology company that develops and manufactures HaloKlear water clarification products for the construction, mining and dredging industries, has announced the Washington Department of Ecology’s General Use Level Designation (GULD) for its HaloKlear Dual Polymer Sys
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) met last week with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District Commander Colonel Mark Deschenes to discuss Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway management issues, including river navigation and flood control priorities. “The Mississippi River is critical to ou
The Small Boat Harbor in Bethel began a month long dredging process to remove built up sediment. The Brown’s Slough entrance to the Kuskokwim River is closed. The Army Corp of Engineers has contracted with Denali Drilling out of Anchorage to dredge the harbor. “Dredging is essentially digging in wat
Oceana demands that the pouring of the polluted muds to be dredged from Maó harbour be halted, as it will coincide with the razorfish spawning season, between April and August. This is also the non-fishing season, a management measure established to protect this species so highly valued by the local
On the sidelines of the World Port and Trade Summit 2013, Abu Dhabi Ports Company ( ADPC ) has announced that a new Abu Dhabi-based port project is underway, with the development of Shahama Port into a commercial, leisure and tourism hub. ADPC stated that it will develop the Shahama water basin and
The stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), commonly used against the gangsters and terrorists, would be invoked against those involved in illegal sand-mining, government said today. Maharashtra Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat stated in the Legislative Council here that “gove
Government ministers and industry game-changers convene in Abu Dhabi as Middle East maritime infrastructure growth meets economic opportunity to create a new seaborne trade superpower. The third annual edition of the World Ports & Trade Summit will be opened tomorrow as global ports, key industry pl
Craig Smith, Ph.D., Fort Hays University, in his “Economics of Reservoir” presentation at the 2013 Dam Safety Conference priced the cost of dredging Tuttle Creek Reservoir. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. This information originated in h