Van Oord Wins €130M Taiwanese Dredging Contract

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Van Oord, a contracting company from the Netherlands, has been awarded the dredging contract for Kaoshiung Intercontinental Container Center Phase II in Taiwan, valued at approximately 130 million euros.

The client is the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan International Ports Corporation (TIPC). The preparations have already started and the execution period runs until January 2018.

The project involves the dredging and reclamation of 37 million m3 of sand for the extension of Kaohsiung Port. Van Oord will deploy one of its largest trailing suction hopper dredgers.

Kaohsiung, located on the South China Sea, is the largest Taiwanese port and plays an important role in the Taiwanese export-oriented economy.

Bangladesh to Buy 20 New Dredgers

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The Bangladesh government is going to procure 20 dredgers for dredging rivers to keep the waterways navigable.

Of the 20 dredgers, some would be purchased from the local market, and the rest would be imported.

At present, there are 18 dredgers, and three more will be collected this year.

The existing government and private dredgers can only dredge 250 lakh cubic meters of waterways each year. When the new dredgers are available, more 232 lakh cubic meters of waterways could be dredged each year by using those dredgers.

USA: Army Corps of Engineers Announces a $2.179 Million Dredging Project in the Black Rock Channel

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Congressman Brian Higgins and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District Commander Lt. Col. Karl Jansen announced a $2.179 million dredging project in the Black Rock Channel.

Work will focus on three areas of the channel: Dredging in the first area, closest to the Black Rock Channel entrance – water adjacent to LaSalle Park – was completed in November and December. Currently underway is dredging in the water between the Peace Bridge and Black Rock Lock, as well the area between the lock and entrance to the Niagara River. Work on these two phases began in July and is on schedule to be completed by the fall.

In total, 250,000 cubic yards of material will be removed from the channel. The dredging will take away legacy sediment, material which may contain industrial contaminants from years past. The project is supported through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a coordinated effort to improve the health of the Great Lakes, and will improve the Niagara River Area of Concern, one of 43 sites along the Great Lakes identified for remedial action.

Egypt Starts Dredging Works for New Shipping Lane East Port Said

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Egypt started Saturday the dredging works of a new 9.5 kilometer-long shipping lane in East Port Said to facilitate international trade maritime navigation, said Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Mohab Mamish in media remarks Friday.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has decreed to start the dredging immediately after the inauguration of the 72km-long New Suez Canal that has been convened Thursday.

The Authority has contracted with the Alliance of Challenge, tasked with digging the inaugurated new canal, to lift 17 million square meters of water-saturated sands within a period of five months, Mamish added.

The Alliance includes the SCA’s dredging fleet, the Emirati National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), Dutch Boskalis for Dredging, Dutch Van Oord, Belgian Jan De Nul group, Belgian Dredging International (DEME Group), and the U.S. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD.)

The new shipping lane is parallel to East Port Said and aims to allow vessels to sail in both directions simultaneously and reducing the waiting time for international vessels passing from and to the main Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, the SCA chairperson continued.

Mamish said digging of the new lane is a part of East Port Said development project, planned to be established on 2,600 hectares of an industrial zone.

On Thursday, Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has inaugurated the 72-Kilometers long New Suez Canal aims to increase traffic and revenue.

Source: The Kairo Post

Photo: Abdelrhman 1990

USA: Cohasset Harbor Dredging To Begin In October

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The dredging of Cohasset Harbor is now scheduled to begin in October and to end 10 to 12 weeks later, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

The project involves removing about 62,000 cubic yards of sandy sediment, from an 8-foot-deep entrance channel, a 7-foot-deep anchorage area, and three 6-foot-deep anchorages in the harbor.

Sand will be removed from the harbor using a hydraulic dredge with a cutter head, then transported along the coastline to Sandy Beach, where it will be distributed across the beach by bulldozers.

USA: Wilmington Harbor Annual Dredging Kicks Off

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The Wilmington Harbor Annual Dredging Program on the Christina River in Delaware started August 3, 2015 and will last until September 20, 2015.

Involved in this dredging project will be the dredge ESSEX along with support equipment, including tender boats DUKE, NORFOLK, and PUSHER 10.

All mariners are requested to stay clear of the dredger, booster, floating pipe, pontoon pipes, submerged pipelines, barges, derricks and operation wires around the dredger.

Operators of vessels of all types should be aware that the dredger and floating pipelines are held in place by cables, attached to anchors, some distance away from the equipment.

Buoys are attached to the anchors so that the anchors may be moved as the dredger advances and the location of the submerged pipelines are marked by buoys on either side of the channel.