Dredging
USA: Port of Osceola Dredging Underway
The dredger “Venture” has been working since Sunday to clear sand and silt from the Port of Osceola, closed for a month because of low water on the Mississippi River. Marvin Roddy, with the Memphis District Corp of Engineers, said: ”Pretty much, cut and dry, the dredge is set up like a large vacuum
India: Kochi Port Plans Long-Term Contract for Dredging
Kochi port has introduced plans to go in for long-term contract for dredging. According to thehindubusinessline.com, the management has invited expressions of interest from companies and their consortiums or joint ventures for taking up dredging operations for a period of 12 years. The long-term con
GPC Welcomes State Government Announcement (Australia)
Gladstone Ports Corporation has welcomed the announcement from the State government to grant significant project status to the proposed channel duplication project. Chairman Mark Brodie said the channel duplication project will ensure the future of the central Queensland region. “In order for the po
Belgium: CEDA Annual General Meeting 2012 Approaches
CEDA Belgian Section will host the thirty-fourth Annual General Meeting of the Central Dredging Association. This meeting will be held at 19:30 hrs on Tuesday, 16 October 2012 at the Van der Valk Hotel Beveren, in Beveren-Waas, Belgium. The AGM will be followed by the regular fall meeting of the Bel
Taiwan: Government to Invest Large in Port Projects
Under a Major Port Construction for International Harbour programme created by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), the Taiwan Government has unveiled plans to invest TW$65.97bn ($2.2bn) over the next five years in several port projects. According to ship-technology.com, these i
Canada: Sydney Harbour Not Ready for Bigger Ships
Although the $38-million dredging project was completed in January, the Sydney Harbour still cannot receive larger ships. Jim Wooder, chairman of Sydney Marine Group and former project manager of the dredging, said: “Creating a new chart could be completed within two months but moving the lights wil
Construction of Tilburg Terminal Kicks Off (The Netherlands)
The construction of a new terminal with a capacity of 80,000 TEU on the Wilhelminakanaal in Tilburg has started. The new terminal of the Versteijnen Groep will be in the business park Vossenberg West II, which can grow to a good 100 hectares and is intended mainly for logistics businesses. The termi
BTB – Largest Inland Terminal in the Netherlands
On 10 September the Barge Terminal Born (BTB) gained a new 150-metre long quay and a site of four hectares for container storage. The port of Holtum-Noord, where the terminal is located, was also deepened to 3.95 metres. The terminal capacity has doubled from 150,000 TEU to 300,000 TEU. This makes B
The Netherlands: New Public Lay-By Berths for Maasvlakte
The Port of Rotterdam Authority is to build three new public lay-by berths for coastal container shipping on the Maasvlakte. Since the beginning of this year, the ro/ro dolphins of the Rhenus terminal have been used intensively for this purpose. With throughput of almost 12 million standard containe
USA: Officials Call for Morehead City Dredging Project
”The width and depth of the channel at the Morehead City port is shrinking due to shoaling, and under current conditions there are limitations on the larger vessels requiring deeper depths,” said Capt. Andrew Midgett. He has been helping guide ships through the channel to the Morehead City port as a
Port Fourchon Expansion Moves Ahead (USA)
The expansion project at the Port Fourchon is moving forward very smoothly. Chett Chiasson, the Port Director, stated: “Slip B is completely leased out and tenants are completing work on their sites. Slip C is in the dredge work phase to create the land, and we already have two tenants who have secu
Port of Felixstowe: New Productivity Record (UK)
Customers at the Port of Felixstowe are benefitting from fast vessel turnarounds on the quayside as a result of a program of continuous improvements. Felixstowe set a new record for the number of container moves in a 12 hour shift with the recent call of the Maersk Sarnia. A total of 3431 exchanges
IADC: New House Style, New Logo, New Website (The Netherlands)
The dredging industry is constantly progressing: broadening its core activities, daring to take on the challenges of maritime infrastructure development, discovering new technologies… So too is the IADC, the umbrella organization that represents these innovative contractors. The IADC has a new house
Oman: STFA Bags Taqah Harbour Contract
The Tender Board has awarded a RO14.5mn contract for the construction of the Taqah fishing harbour. Zawya.com reports that the STFA, a large Turkish engineering and contracting company, has won the project. The Taqah harbour work broadly consists of construction of a 150m-long concrete quay line, co