USACE announces tender for maintenance dredging on Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black, Atchafalaya Bar Channel,St. Mary Parish, LA. Work is estimated to cost between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. IFB will be issued on or about 28 July 2010, with a bid opening date to be issued by am
On the coast of the Bay of Chaleur, a major New Brunswick port continues to out-do itself. For a fifth consecutive year, the Port of … [mappress] Source: timestranscript, July 15, 2010;
Blasting will take place at a busy north-east harbour next week as work on a multimillion-pound port expansion enters its final phase. The massive Smith Embankment project at Peterhead is just weeks away from completion. Work to build a 650ft quay and 330ft breakwater at the busy Buchan port began i
The Port of Longview is looking to deepen the Columbia River three feet at eight of its berths so ships can unload more cargo, port … By Erik Olson [mappress] Source: tdn, July 15, 2010;
You can just glimpse a view of one of Thorold’s biggest toxic cleanups from the bike path along the Welland Canal. An excavator was busy … [mappress] Source: The Tribune , July 15, 2010;
Terminal Catalunya (Tercat), a member of the Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Group, is to take over the site of the Muelle Prat container … [mappress] Source: worldnews, July 14, 2010;
Banana Enterprises Limited is currently engaged in the development and expansion of its port facility in Big Creek. The Port of Big Creek is now seeking to improve its product offering by upgrading existing facilities, onshore and offshore, in an effort to balance the pendulum of capacity and demand
Rio Tinto this morning announced $226.8 million worth of funding to expand its iron ore operations in the Pilbara, Western Australia… By Michael Mills [mappress] Source: miningaustralia, July 14, 2010;
The Ispat Industries-owned Geetapuram Port, which recently got the go-ahead from Maharashtra to handle third-party cargo, has announced a … [mappress] Source: business-standard, July 14, 2010;
USD 350 million is being invested in the Port of Luanda, one of Africa’s most congested, in an effort to restructure the harbour and its facilities. This was disclosed at a meeting between port and government officials and a visiting US delegation to Luanda, which included US Assistant Trade Represe
The price N.J. taxpayers pay to replenish beaches with freshly dredged sand has skyrocketed over the past two decades because of weak … [mappress] Source: nj, July 14, 2010;
Brazil’s transport infrastructure department (DNIT) will spend an estimated 520mn reais (US$296mn) to dredge Para state’s Tocantins river… By Daniel Bland [mappress] Source: Business News Americas, July 14, 2010;
The third phase of the St. Johns River harbor deepening project in Jacksonville Harbor (Florida) is now complete, ahead of schedule. Contractors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District have deepened 5.3 miles of the river from mile 14.7 to mile 20, from a depth of 38 feet to 40 fe
Beach 6 at Presque Isle State Park is scheduled to be closed today and Tuesday so crews can replenish sand there, park officials said… [mappress] Source: goerie, July 14, 2010;
