Dredging News

The China Railway First Group has won the dredging contract on the Sigatoka River on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Chinese infrastructural company will be conducting the first phase of the Sigatoka River Dredging Project.

The company was selected following the advertisement of tenders where a total of three companies submitted tenders for the dredging work. The China Railway First Group was previously contracted to carry out dredging works in the Rewa, Navua, and Ba River.

The three-year project is aimed at removing 1.2 million cubic meters of silt and sand from the river bed.

In the first phase which will last until May, China Railway will dredge from the river mouth and extend to 0.55kilometers up river aiming to excavate 300,000 cubic meters of silt.

The dredging works which has significant economic benefits will improve the drainage of agricultural land, increase the flood discharge capacity of the river system, and reduce flood damage.

The news is collated by Globaldredge.com – Dredging Pipeline Supplier.

Beach Construction

Weeks Marine, Inc., Covington Park, Louisiana, was awarded a $91,992,023 contract for beach fill, initial construction, Manasquan Inlet to Barnegat Inlet, Ocean County, New Jersey.

Bids were solicited via the Internet with three received. Work will be performed in Brick, New Jersey, with an estimated completion date of May 30, 2018.

Fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $91,992,023 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (W912BU-17-C-0005).

Harbor Dredging

Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Great Lakes, Illinois, was awarded a $7,435,825 contract for maintenance dredging in Morehead City Harbor Ocean Bar, Carteret County, North Carolina, with an option to conduct beach tilling at Morehead City Harbor.

Bids were solicited via the Internet with two received. Work will be performed in Morehead, North Carolina, with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2017.

Fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $5,231,470; and fiscal 2017 other funds in the amount of $2,204,355 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington, North Carolina, is the contracting activity (W912PM-17-C-0002).

The news is collated by Globaldredge.com – Dredging Pipeline Supplier.

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.

The news is collated by Globaldredge.com.