OITE Conferences in association with the Ministry of Transport & Communication announced the 3rd Annual TransOman Conference 2012, which will take place from 14th – 16th May, at the Grand Hyatt in Muscat. The conference aims to promote Oman’s potential as the next Middle East logistic hub and gatewa
Ninigret Pond dredging project has been completed before its deadline and under budget. The maintenance dredging work was undertaken by the coastal council in cooperation with the town of Charlestown as part of the South Coast Restoration Project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started dredging th
National Safety Week is being observed in Dredging Corporation of India, Visakhapatnam from 4th to 9th March 2012. On this occasion, Capt. D.K. Mohanty, Chairman and Managing Director, DCI, unfurled the Safety Flag at the DCI office premises, and addressed the officers and staff of the corporation.
A scoping study, most probably worth $5000, aimed at determining the cost of dredging Ballina’s North Creek is expected to be undertaken in near future, reports The Northern Star. A decision on whether to approve the $5000 for the scoping study will be made by the council at this month’s meeting. Pr
The Special Adviser to Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Environment, Bola Ilori, stressed that the Osun state government last year spent approximately N500 million on dredging about 53 kilometers of waterways in several parts of the state. He has also disclosed that the stretch of the three streams would
Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has written to the British Secretary of State Owen Paterson and the Port and Harbour Commission to ascertain ownership of the seabed of the River Foyle . His call comes following continuing wrangling over ownership of the seabed of the River Foyle and the legal
South Carolina’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Shoreline Management will meet March 13 at 9 a.m. in Room 307 of the Gressette Building in Columbia. The meeting agenda includes a brief staff presentation and continued committee discussion regarding the issuance of emergency orders and the use of sandbags
Residents and business owners in the Jug Creek system eagerly want the county to dredge the inlet between Jug Creek and Charlotte Harbor, reports News Press. This inlet is currently suitable only for movement of shallow-draft boats due to a considerable amount of sand that has accumulated over past
Planning permission has been granted to create one of the UK’s largest areas of new wildlife habitat on the Steart Peninsula in Somerset. The Environment Agency and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) have worked closely with the local community to develop plans for an innovative flood defence and h
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and David O’Neill of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) joined Mayor Vincent C. Gray and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton of the District of Columbia at Marvin Gaye Park to announce the creation of The Anacostia Rive
Leighton Offshore has announced that following the successful hydrostatic testing of the onshore and offshore pipeline systems and subsequent final commissioning of the offshore export facility, crude oil was now flowing to a single point mooring (SPM) installed under the $799m Iraq Crude Oil Export
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to begin a Holden Beach replenishment project, free of charge and compliments of the federal government, reports StarNews Online. Sand from an area two to three miles offshore of Oak Island will be dredged and placed on Holden Beach which has been devoted
Shipkits has announced that it is hard at work on new vessels for Dutch dredging company Boskalis. This new hopper dredger with 4500 m3 hold, is the second from a series of 3 for Boskalis and now under construction at the Shipkits’ yard in Poland. The completion of the finished hull will be done by
Illinois was welcomed into the coastal management system at last week’s ceremony, making the state eligible for approximately $2 million in annual grants to help manage its Great Lakes resources. The creation of the Illinois Coastal Management Program comes at the 40th anniversary of the passage of
