Boaties in Lake Macquarie have stated that the Swansea Channel is still choked even though the NSW government has spent $300,000 on dredging activities, reports The Star. There are even claims that the channel’s depth is worse than it was before the government commenced dredging in December thus the
Contractors for the DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation are continuing to work to remove floating trash from the debris trap located at the entrance to Ala Wai small boat harbor near Ala Wai boulevard bridge. Cleanup of the debris trap began Monday at 7 a.m. following heavy weekend rains t
First results of water quality samples taken from Gladstone Harbour have found no detectable levels of cyanide. The Department of Environment and Resource Management’s Director-General Jim Reeves said the water quality tests had been taken from the area in the harbour near the plant’s release diffus
The U.S. Amy Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, released the Fargo, N.D., Moorhead, Minn., Flood Risk Management Project Value Engineering Study Report March 6. The Corps conducted the VE Study on the locally preferred plan, now known as the federally recommended plan, at the start of the design
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, encountered what is believed to be Hurricane Ike-related debris during maintenance dredging of Rollover Pass to the Galveston Causeway. The debris material was inadvertently deposited at its federally-coordinated beneficial use site at Caplen Bea
Xiangyu Dredging Holdings Limited, the largest privately owned dredging company in China in terms of dredging volume in 2010, has announced based on a preliminary assessment on the unaudited management accounts of the Company and the information currently available to the Board, the result of the Co
The Arab News reports that Abdul Aziz Al-Tuwaijri, president of Saudi Ports Authority, on Sunday inked a number of contracts for the development and maintenance of ports at a cost of SR500 million. The signing ceremony was attended by Transport Minister Jabara Al-Seraisry. These contracts are as fol
The Auckland Plan will not lock in any specific expansion of the port, councillors agreed today. Instead, Auckland Council will call for a major review of the port’s ongoing needs and the future requirements for freight services across the upper North Island. Councillors agreed that the Waitemata Ha
The special transport vessel from China with the first four container cranes for the EUROGATE Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven on board docked at the quayside this morning. The “Zhenhua 23” belonging to the Chinese company ZPMC, which departed from Shanghai on 6 January 2012, spent two months at sea
Today, at the St. Clair Shores Public Library, EPA will hold a public meeting on the cleanup status of the Ten-Mile Drain site. EPA will discuss the results of their source investigation, which found high concentrations of PCB oil lying underneath four manhole vaults in the underground trench of the
The world renowned survey department of Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) in Holland has just taken receipt of their first integrated Underwater Inspection System (UIS™) from CodaOctopus. Purchased through our agent, Nautikaris BV, RWS have already scheduled a full program of survey and inspection work for thei
On March 15th 2012, HME’s Singapore Branch Office will be officially launched by the Dutch ambassador H.E. Johannes W.G. Jansing at his residence in Singapore. The opening coincides with one of Asia’s most established and proven maritime trade exhibitions Asia Pacific Maritime 2012. HME Singapore to
The City of Kingston has awarded $7.1 million in tenders for Mordialloc-based projects, including Stage 2 of dredging at Mordialloc Creek, sheet pile installations at Lambert Island and Mordialloc Shopping Centre streetscape works. The $5.56 million tender for Stage 2 of the Mordialloc Creek dredgin
An exclusive market report by Trelleborg Marine Systems has revealed that the vast majority (90%) of the port owners, operators and contractors surveyed believe that both laboratory and full scale testing are important requirements in the manufacture of docking and mooring products. Despite these en
