About 86 per cent of the Matmora Protection Project is completed and it is expected that continuous sunny days for a period of 15 days would… [mappress] Source: assamtribune, June 2, 2010;
The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority today authorized $2.7 million for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform critical… [mappress] Source: finance, June 2, 2010;
Six international engineering companies submitted bids Tuesday to dredge an area of the Panama Canal’s man-made Gatun Lake that is central… [mappress] Source: joc, June 2, 2010;
Cape Bretoners are shovel-ready and the Nova Scotia and federal governments are late. [mappress] Source: capebretonpost, June 2, 2010;
International conference and exhibition on Environmental Sediment Dredging And Processing is to be held in Rotterdam in The Netherlands in October. The production of sediments in Europe is estimated at 1.800 million tonnes per year. Of this amount approximately 1.100 million tonnes per year are depo
The Minister of Transport, Mr.Yusuf Suleiman, has said that the ongoing dredging of the River Niger will be completed in November this year. A statement by the Deputy Director, Press, in the ministry, Mr.Kingsley Aghah, said that the minister disclosed this during an inspection tour of two of the fi
For (future) decision makers and their advisors in governments, port and harbour authorities, offshore companies and other organisations that have to execute dredging projects, the International Association of Dredging Companies, in co-operation with UNESCO–IHE, organises the International Seminar o
On Wednesday May 26, 2010, the cutter suction dredger ‘Ibn Battuta’ was delivered to its owner, on the shipyard Uljanik Brodogradiliste d.d. in Pula (Croatia). The ‘Ibn Battuta’ is the first of four large self-propelled cutter suction dredgers built at the Pula shipyard. Earlier this year, the ident
THREE tugboats have pulled into Hay Point Coal Terminal to aid dredging activities ahead of a major expansion project. [mappress] Source: dailymercury, June 1, 2010;
Eric Chu, the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) candidate for the year-end election in Sinbei City, and Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin of the KMT, who is seeking re-election, yesterday pledged to work together to clean up the Tamsui River. Accompanied by Taipei County Commissioner Chou Hsi-wei — also of
This one-day workshop was jointly organised by CEDA, EuDA and ESPO. It took place on 29 April 2010 at the EuDA Offices in Brussels, Belgium. The revised Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC came into force at the end of 2008. It has to be transposed into national law by 12 December 2010. The aim of
One of Cape Coral’s Model 5012 LP Versi-Dredge systems performing canal maintenance Dredging has begun in two Cape Coral canals to make the waterways more navigable to boaters. The dredging is part of a continuous effort to keep the city’s more than 400 miles of canals free from silt and debris, sai
To anticipate flood in Jelambar, Grogolpetamburan, West Jakarta plans to build a five-hectare reservoir in Jelambar in 2011. The reservoir is projected to overcome flood in Jelambar area, such as Jelambarbaru and Wijayakusuma Urban Villages, two densely populated areas vulnerable to being submerged.
Van Oord has been awarded the contract to perform maintenance dredging in the port of Beira, Mozambique. The customer is CFM (Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique). The contract value amounts to some EUR 37 million. The work has begun in April 2010 and will take approximately eighteen months to
