Colombian river management authority Cormagdalena said maintenance dredging was successfully completed at kilometer 11 of the access channels of Colombia’s Port of Barranquilla in early December 2016. Jan De Nul’s… Read More
Dredging & Marine Construction
The Waterways Journal has been covering dredging and marine construction news on the inland rivers since 1887. Now, with the combined power of IDR (International Dredging Review), we cover this news in greater depth, expanding our coverage to major projects along all US waterways, coastlines and the Great Lakes.
In December 2016 the City Council of Santiago de Guayaquil Ecuador’s most populous city signed an agreement with the coun-try’s Ministry of Transports and Public Works (MTOP) to dredge the… Read More
Dredging at Chilean Calle Calle Cau Cau and Cruces Rivers is reaching its final phase as the project reaches an 85 percent completion rate according to local media. Built in… Read More
Dredging at Brazil’s Madeira River located between the states of Amazonas and Rondônia should resume this year EBC Brazil’s government news agency said. The JEED-EPC consortium a partnership involving JEED… Read More
Early in November 2016 Brazil’s Port of Pecém in the state of Ceará received a number of technicians from the country’s National Institute of Waterways Research (INPH) and the nation’s… Read More
In November 2016 the access channel of Colombia’s Port of Barranquilla reached 10 meters (about 33 feet) raising once again concerns about its navigability. According to local media a sediment… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) won a EUR 120 million ($124.8 million US) dredging contract to expand Brazil’s Porto do Açú transshipment terminal in the city of São João da Barra… Read More
Nicaragua’s Port Authority Empresa Portu-aria Nacional (EPN) is building nine artificial islands at the Bluefields Bay area in an attempt to boost tourism in the region. A dredge owned by… Read More
Ecosystem Services concepts were applied at the Polders of Kruibeke in Belgium. Part of the polder has been converted into a tidal marsh by the creation of a Flood Control… Read More
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has been conducting a year-long series of webinars on Dredging Equipment and Technology. The webinars focus on the Cutter Suction Dredge and the Trailing Suction… Read More
