In this concise and timely paper CEDAâ??s Environment Commission portrays its consolidated view on what environmentally responsible dredging really means at the beginning of the 21st century.

Read at CEDA publishes information paper: â??Dredging and the environment: moving sediments in natural systemsâ??.

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• Awarded IADC emerging authors CEDA Dredging submitted days

    An IADC Best Paper Award for a young author was presented to Jelmer Braaksma for his paper entitled, â??Estimating the immeasurable: Soil propertiesâ? at CEDA Dredging Days 2009 in Rotterdam. Read at IADC young authors award to be presented at CEDA Dredging Days

• IADC Dredging Seminar for Singapore

    More than ever in this time of financial down-turn, the need for dredging and land reclamation are being viewed as basic elements for stimulating economic recovery and sustainable growth. Read at IADC dredging seminar set for Singapore

• Hapag-Lloyd walks in Latin America Prices

     Hapag-Lloyd said it will implement a general rate increase from Canadian Pacific Coast ports to ports in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. The increase will be $150 for 20-foot containers and $300 for 40-foot containers.

• New breakwater and dredging project for Canadian port

    The port of Lower Sandy Point, Canada, will soon begin work constructing a new breakwater and undertake dredging work, in a contract worth over US $2.5 million. Read at New breakwater and dredging project for Canadian port

• Antwerp welcomes move Scheldt dredging

    Antwerp Port Authority and Alfaport Antwerpen have welcomed the decision by the Dutch Council of State (taken today) overturning the stay of deepening work in the Western Scheldt. The decision means that dredging will be able to start in the… Read at Antwerp welcomes Scheldt dredging move

• New Scheldt dredging project will make the Port of Antwerp more accessible

    Dredging of the Dutch side of the river Scheldt began on the 12th of February, continuing plans to make the Port of Antwerp more accessible. Read at New Scheldt dredging project makes Port of Antwerp more accessible

• Mercator to extend dredging, bulk and tanker segments

    Mercator Lines is planning to increase its presence in a number of new markets including the bulk, tanker and dredging segments. Reports from India say Mercator Lines Ltd plans to expand in the dredging, bulk and tanker segments in the next 12-18 months

• Mercator to extend dredging, bulk and tanker segments

    Mercator Lines is planning to increase its presence in a number of new markets including the bulk, tanker and dredging segments. Reports from India say Mercator Lines Ltd plans to expand in the dredging, bulk and tanker segments in the next 12-18 months. Expansion in its coal mining capacity is

• Mombasa ports ability to grow with a deeper channel

    Kenya will start importing crude oil using large tankers with a capacity of a million barrels upon completion of dredging the navigation channel at the Port of Mombasa. Petroleum Institute of East Africa (PIEA) said the government’s Sh16 billion Mombasa port expansion plan entailing ocean floor dredging will allow large

• International Association of Dredging Company announces new Secretary-General of 1 January 2010

    The Board of Directors of the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) is pleased to announce that Mr. René Kolman will assume the position of Secretary General as of 1 January 2010. Read at International association of dredging companies announces new Secretary General as of 1 January 2010

• Repositioning of ports

    John H. Estey is Gov. Rendell’s point person for the long-delayed Delaware River dredging project. He was appointed nearly two years ago as the unpaid chairman of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority to navigate a 20-year battle to deepen the Delaware River and Bay channel by five feet in order to

• Port Klang dredging completed by December

     The dredging of the south channel in Port Klang is expected to be completed in December this year, reported The Business Times. The south channel, which will be 16.5m deep and 500m wide once completed, is now between 60 and 70 per cent done. ‘Initially, the plan was to deepen it to

• Asian airlines think Santos is a dredging Booster PAC

    Asia’s top container carriers – and possibly a Chinese dredging company – could gain from a plan by Brazil’s Port Minister Pedro Brito to make sure the South American country’s key port of Santos is dredged down to 17 metres within the next two years. For Brito says that such

• Gazprom set up to hold $ 500 mln issue to paper sources

    Russia’s most indebted company, energy giant Gazprom, is set to launch a commercial paper programme next week, with the first tranche likely to be $500 million, banking sources told Reuters. “Next week Gazprom begins meetings with investors. It will collect subscribers and will set the terms, volumes and yield of the

• Australian shippers back emissions trading

    The shipping industry has launched a plan it says offers a “practical solution” to reducing carbon emissions in the international freight network. The discussion paper, launched in London and backed by global shipping players, calls for a ‘cap-and-trade’ emissions scheme to encourage shipping operators to reduce emissions. The Australian Shipowners Association (ASA) says