Port Authority Awards Harbor Dredging Contracts

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The New Bourbon Regional Port Authority board conducted a meeting at the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning Commission in Perryville addressed a limited agenda to consider bids for two projects.

The Port Authority board awarded Magruder Construction Company the contract for harbor dredging of 75,000 cubic yards of material.

And it awarded CK Power the contract for replacement of the two engines and a generator on the Ste. Genevieve-Modoc Ferry contingent upon approval from the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), which is not automatic since there was only one bid.

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Boskalis Awards Acu Port Dredging Contract

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Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded a dredging contract worth about €120m in Brazil.

Açu Petróleo S.A., a joint venture company of Prumo Logística S.A. and Oiltanking Gmbh, has awarded the contract for the expansion of the Porto do Açu Oil Transhipment Terminal in Rio de Janeiro State.

 

The expansion project comprises the deepening, widening, and extension of the access channel and turning basin. In total, approximately 32 million cubic meters of sand, silt and clay will be dredged. The activities will commence immediately and are expected to be completed late in 2017. For this project, one jumbo and two large trailing suction hopper dredgers will be deployed.

The terminal’s access channel currently has a depth of 20.5m, suitable to receive Suezmax type vessels. By the end of 2017, the depth will be increased to up to 24.5m, allowing the terminal will be able to receive Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs).

Between 2011 and 2015 Boskalis was responsible for the development of a large part of Açu Port, which included the construction of two access channels, a turning basin, an inner channel, and mooring berths as well as the 2.4km of revetments for the inner harbor’s protection.

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Cudgen Creek Dredging Project completed

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Dredging works of the entrance channel of Cudgen Creek at Kingscliff has been completed in time for the Christmas holidays.

The NSW Government was investing more than $345,000 to ensuring the lower reaches of the creek are accessible to boaters during low tide.

Totally around 25,000 cubic meters of sand has been removed to improve the navigation of the entrance channel.

The majority of the dredged sand has been moved to the southern section of Kingscliff Beach to improve beach amenity and provide a buffer against the impacts of big seas.

The dredging program provides a direct benefit to the community through improved boating safety and access to waterways for both commercial and recreational boaters.

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Controversy of $1M dredging contract for City Park lake

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Hagerstown City Park might award an estimated $1 million contract to dredge the landmark’s lower lake.

The project is expected to deepen the waterway to a depth of up to 5 feet and perhaps lead to a greater variety of fish within it. But concerns have been raised over the project, including its cost and whether the dredging would alter water flows in the lake.

If the contract is approved, work can begin next month and be completed by May. And Edwin A. & John O. Crandell Inc. of West River, Md. may become the contractor to carry out this dredging project.

Some councilmans raised several concerns, including whether dredging up against a stone wall in the lake will affect its structural integrity, whether dredging will alter the pattern of water sources feeding the lake.

But Tissue said workers will not dredge up against the lake’s stone wall. Dredging will be conducted out from the wall, which will also create a “safety bench” underwater in case anyone falls in. He emphasized that the contractor will only be removing sediment that has built up in the lake over the last 100 years.

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Holden Beach Central Dredging Project

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Holden Beach’s Central Reach Project is scheduled to begin dredging operations on Thursday, Dec. 15. The dredging project will begin Nov. 15 and lasts through March 31, 2017.

The project will dredge 1.31 million cubic yards of sand to put along 4.1 miles of Holden Beach shoreline, from 240 Ocean Blvd. E. to 781 Ocean Blvd. W.

The sand for the project will come from a site two miles offshore and will be dispersed along the stretch of beach using a hopper dredge. The bid for the dredging work was awarded in September to Weeks Marine, which is a marine construction and dredging contractor based in Cranford, N.J., in the amount of $14,551,110.

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Boskalis wins $127m oil terminal expansion dredging contract

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Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) has won a contract from Oiltankaing jv Açu Petróleo for the expansion of the Porto do Açu oil transshipment terminal in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. The contract worth around $127.06m.

The expansion work includes the deepening, widening, and extension of the access channel and turning basin. In total, approximately 32m cu m of sand, silt, and clay will be dredged.

The project will start immediately and expected to be completed in late 2017. There will be one jumbo and two large trailing suction hopper dredgers will be deployed for this project.

The terminal’s access channel has a depth of 20.5 m suitable to receive Suezmax-type vessels at present. By the end of 2017, the depth will be increased to up to 24.5 m, so the terminal will be able to receive VLCCs.

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