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.

USA: DNREC Announces Plans To Dredge Little River

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DNREC’s Divisions of Watershed Stewardship and Fish & Wildlife announced plans for a cooperative dredging project on the Little River near Dover, from the Route 9/Bayside Drive bridge in Little Creek east into the Delaware Bay.

Dredging is scheduled to begin in the second week of August. Southwind Construction of Evansville, Ind., was awarded the contract for the project.

The channel is approximately 12,400 feet long and will be dredged to widths of 40 feet in the river portion and 60 feet in the Delaware Bay portion, and to a depth of 5 feet at average low tide. The Little River was last dredged by the state in 1981-1982.

The $1.01 million state-funded project includes dredging 79,000 cubic yards of material from the channel, and the removal of 30 derelict pilings and a derelict vessel from the waterway near Little Creek.

Project completion is anticipated by Oct. 1, before peak waterfowl season.

 

New Suez Canal Ready For Operation

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New Suez Canal is completed ahead of time and ready to receive its first ships on August 6.

Mohab Mameesh, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority said, “We have finished work on time and even before the specified time… We call on all the international maritime carriers to use the current and the new Suez canal. Your navigation is safe.”

The new canal is connected to the existing canal by four small channels. The canal will reduce navigation times for the vessels from 22 hours to 11 hours, which means that the New Suez Canal will be the fastest waterway in the world.

The existing canal earns Egypt $5 billion a year and the new canal, which will allow for two-way traffic of larger ships, will boost revenue to $15 billion by 2023. If the hub projects are also fully realized then Egypt could earn an extra $100 billion a year.

 

USA: Dredging for the New Tappan Zee Bridge Restarts Next Month

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Posted 7/30/2015

Dredging of the Hudson River for the new Tappan Zee Bridge will resume next month near Westchester.

The dredging project, costing $3.9 billion, will remove nearly 200,000 cubic yards of sand and silt south of the existing bridge to create a flotation channel for the largest crane on the bridge replacement project beginning on or about Aug. 6 and end no later than Oct. 31. Once the construction started, the work will last 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Aimed at protecting environment and avoiding the main season for spawning and fish migration, specifically for endangered Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon in the river, the U.S. Coast Guard warned boaters that two dredgers, barges and a plant will be working near Westchester. Meanwhile, water quality monitoring, using closed clam-shell dredge buckets and having federally-approved sturgeon observers on site around the clock will strengthen.

All of the dredged material will be solidified, stabilized and disposed of at various sites in New Jersey.

The first of the new two spans is scheduled to open to traffic in December 2016, with the second following the next year.

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