Damen Holds Environmental Dredging Seminar in China

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Damen Shipyards Group recently held a seminar on the subject of environmental dredging for key players in the Chinese dredging industry. The two-day seminar presented several new developments from the field of environmental dredging. More than 50 representatives from over 20 Chinese dredging companies attended the seminar, which took place at the beginning of November.

The event visited two of Damen’s Chinese yards: Damen Yichang Shipyard and Damen Shipyards Changde. The invited companies included the big state-owned dredging companies as well as smaller, more local dredging companies.

The first day, the participants have visited these highlighted Damen’s dredging products and given a tour of a modern, highly automated trailer suction hopper dredger 2000 that is currently under construction at Damen Yichang Shipyard. This 2,000m3 capacity vessel is being built as part of Damen’s speculative shipbuilding program in order to ensure the delivery of vessels with short delivery times.

Day two of the itinerary, as well as showing the guests a Cutter Suction Dredger 500 that is currently under construction for stock, the yard also gave a demonstration of a DOP 200 Dredge Pump.

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Dredging Corp Wins Kolkata Port Dredging Contract

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Dredging Corporation of India Ltd (DCI) has been carrying out the maintenance dredging works for Kolkata Port channels. The contract is worth Rs 1,119-crore, which is awarded on a nomination basis by the government of India.

The project will include maintenance dredging operations in the shipping channels leading to Haldia Dock Complex in the Hooghly Estuary for a period of five years, beginning from January 2017.

In the past, DCI used to dredge about 24 mn cubic meters per year by deploying six dredgers at Jellingham and Auckland bars.

Under the new contract, the quantum of dredging has been reduced to about 8 mn cubic meters per year consequent to opening up of the Eden channel and DCI will execute the contract by deploying three dredgers.

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DEME Awards Mauritius Dredging Contract

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Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME has won a €41m dredging contract for the Container Terminal Quay Project at Port Louis Harbour in Mauritius.
DEME awards the contract which is an extension project for the Mauritius Container Terminal to accommodate larger vessels and to handle an incremental increase in container traffic.

The scope of work for DEME will include dredging in various soil conditions, including rock. The works will be executed by the heavy-duty rock cutter dredger Ambiorix.
Works will start by December 2016 and are expected to be completed by June 2017.
In addition to this contract, DEME, the French construction group Eiffage and Eiffage’s subsidiary RMT Clemessy has been awarded a €47m contract for the extension of the Freeport Terminal in Sierra Leone.

The Freetown Terminal, operated by the French group Bolloré Transport & Logistics, is undergoing an expansion program that calls for the construction of a new 270m quay to accommodate vessels with a draft of 13m. The Bolloré group intends to increase the total capacity of the container terminal to 750,000 teu. Works started recently and are expected to be completed in August 2018.

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Dredge Report: Dredging Project in The Cuyahoga River

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The U.S Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract to the Michigan-based Ryba Marine Construction Company to dredge the Cuyahoga River.

The work will be conducted by the end of 2016, at a cost of $3.7 million.

The Corps is legally responsible for maintaining a depth of 23 feet in the river, which is a Federal Navigation Channel. This year, the Corps (via Ryba Marine) will place all sediment dredged from the riverbed in a Port-run confined disposal facility (CDF) along Lake Erie and pay for doing so.

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Dredging for Passenger Port of Saint-Petersburg

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About the project on construction of anchoring piles at Passenger Port of Saint-Petersburg, the company is planning dredging works at Berths No 6 and No 7.

The works will be performed by FSUE Rosmorport in 2018. The design is to be completed in 2016, the first phase (pre-dredging) will be implemented in 2017.

The project implementation will accommodate two 330-meter long vessels simultaneously.

Passenger Port of Saint-Petersburg?Marine Fade? PLC is in the ownership of the city of St. Petersburg and is the largest passenger seaport in Russia. Construction of Marine Fade began in 2006. The port can accommodate cruise and ferry ships of up to 330 m long and with a draft of up to 8.8 m. The length and depth of new access channels – 10 km and 11 m, accordingly. The port operates seven piers. The quayside length – 2,171.06 m.

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Cleveland shipping channel dredging contract

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $3.7 million contract to dredge Cleveland Harbor and the six-mile Cuyahoga River shipping channel.

The dredging work is expected to begin by Nov. 1 and be completed by Dec. 15.

Under terms of the agreement, Ryba Marine Construction of Cheboygan, Mich., will dispose of the dredged sediment in a confined disposal facility on the Lake Erie shoreline near Burke Lakefront Airport.

The Army Corps had preferred to dump the sediment directly into Lake Erie but reached a settlement with the Ohio EPA and the Port of Cleveland to store the sediment on land, with the Army Corps paying the additional cost of about $2.1 million.

Owing to the failed agreement between the Army Corps and EPA, it would have been the first time in at least 30 years that the Corps had failed to dredge the shipping channel and harbor.

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