Outer Harbor Dredging Plan

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South Australia’s largest port operator has applied to the State Planning Commission to widen the existing shipping channel at Outer Harbor by 40m for a distance of 7km.

Its proposal would require dredging of 1.55 million cubic metres of sea matter to be relocated at Gulf St Vincent which sparking “serious concerns” from local environmental groups.

According to Flinders Ports, the project is necessary because the number of ships calling into Outer Harbor has quadrupled this year and is expected to double again in 2018. Meanwhile the economic benefit of widening the channel did not outweigh the destruction of the environment.

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Dredging Project of Forked River Channels

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The state-funded dredging project of shallow navigational watercourses near Barnegat Inlet has already begun with the part dredging works of Forked River channels completed to maintain and ensure the safe navigation.

The dredge project in the Forked River channels, which included Forked River, Forked River Middle Branch, and Spur, the South Spur, and the channel known as the Elks Channel, began in August and was completed on schedule in September. The work is part of the $2.5 million projects to dredge the Forked River and Barnegat Bay channels. The dredge materials were hydraulically transported to the Oyster Creek confined disposal facility to drain.

The next project includes Double Creek Mainland, Double Creek Inlet, High Bar Harbor, and Barnegat Light Stake, located just off the municipal boat ramp. Dredging operations began last month and continue 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the end of December.

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Damen Dredger Starts Work at Gippsland Lakes

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Tommy Norton, a Damen trailing suction hopper dredger built at Damen Shipyards Yichang has been delivered to Gippsland Ports.The suction hopper dredger has been put into dredging work as soon as it arrived.

Capable of dredging to depths of 15m, the dredger has been built with bottom doors to enable self-emptying and can alternate between a bow connection and rainbow expulsion for beach reclamation work. In order to increase the vessel’s payload capacity when dredging sand with a high specific density, Damen has reduced the freeboard of the vessel and applied a dredge mark.

The 60m dredger has now started work to deliver safe and reliable ocean access for the commercial vessels, oil and gas suppliers and commercial fishing fleet that cross the entrance bar to the Gippsland Lakes area. The maintenance dredging also helps reduce the risk of flooding to local communities.

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Nieuwe Waterweg and Botlek Deepening Project

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2017.10.09

The Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are going to deepen the Nieuwe Waterweg and the Botlek.

A tender for the project has been issued. It will involve a 1.5m deepening along a 25km stretch of waterway between Hoek van Holland, the Benelux Tunnel and the adjoining Botlek port.

Carrying out the project will improve accessibility to the Botlek ports. The deepening will begin in the spring of 2018 and will take around six months.

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Dredging Project at Barnegat Bay

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New Jersey transportation officials on Monday announced an $8.7 million projected to dredge channels in Barnegat Bay – specifically near the area of Barnegat Inlet. This portion of the project will include five heavily-traveled channels: Double Creek Mainland, Double Creek Inlet, High Bar Harbor, and Barnegat Light Stake.

NJDOT’s contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, is now working to place pipeline in or near the channels, which will be both submerged and floating. The pipeline will be used to pump sediment to the Oyster Creek Confined Disposal Facility (CDF) and sand to the Barnegat Light beach near the Barnegat Lighthouse Stake Park.

Dredging operations are expected to begin in early October and continue 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week through the end of December. This project will ensure renewed safe navigation and maintain these Barnegat Bay Channels in a state of good repair.

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Boston Harbor Dredging Project

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The $350 million state and federally funded dredging project recently kicked off. Many dignitaries involved in this project included Gov. Charlie Baker, local government officials, members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the International Longshoremen’s Association, the Massachusetts Port Authority.

This project will deepen the outer harbor, the main shipping channel and reserved channel, and dredge the inner harbor. The outer harbor channel will be deepened from 40 to 51 feet, the main shipping channel from 40 to 47 feet, and the reserved channel from 40 to 47 feet.

Conley Container Terminal, on the reserved channel, will be able to accommodate 12,000 20-foot-equivalent-unit cargo ships. Deepening Boston Harbor and supporting infrastructure investments at Conley Container Terminal is crucial to Massachusetts and New England’s competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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