The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) will begin conducting pre-assessment conferencing in January 2012 to help reduce a backlog of violations before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. Read More
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Katie Worth has joined the International Dredging Review (IDR) staff as reporter for Central and South America starting with the January/February 2012 issue.From her residence in Santiago Chile she will cover dredging-related news in Central and South America. Her first article on expansion of the Rio de la Plata river system appears in this issue. She will write a roundup of short items of dredging news in Latin America to appear in each issue. Read More
On November 10 2011 DSC Dredge LLC and Supreme Dredge & Processing LLC form a new company Supreme-DSC Dredge LLC a Louisiana-based corporation with its major manufacturing component in Stoneboro Pennsylvania. The company allows the two companies to combine forces to complement each others product lines and build clamshell dredges for aggregate mining. Read More
From the National Waterways Conference: Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to introduce a highway bill on the Senate floor next week. As part of the consideration of that bill… Read More
From the National Waterways Conference: Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to introduce a highway bill on the Senate floor next week. As part of the consideration of that bill… Read More
On January 18 Barry Holliday reported that H.R. 104 – the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) bill has 150 co-sponsors and that industry stakeholders are continuing their information campaign to… Read More
On January 18 Barry Holliday reported that H.R. 104 – the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) bill has 150 co-sponsors and that industry stakeholders are continuing their information campaign to… Read More
Last February African Minerals Limited (AML) contracted Jan de Nul to re-establish a navigation channel along the Sierra Leone River from Pepel to Freetown Sierra Leone. The channel will allow passage of HandyMax Bulk carriers from the Pepel loading jetty to the offshore transshipment area as part of AMLs Tonkolili Iron Ore Project 200 km inland from the coast. Read More
Last February African Minerals Limited (AML) contracted Jan de Nul to re-establish a navigation channel along the Sierra Leone River from Pepel to Freetown Sierra Leone. The channel will allow passage of HandyMax Bulk carriers from the Pepel loading jetty to the offshore transshipment area as part of AMLs Tonkolili Iron Ore Project 200 km inland from the coast. Read More
The VOSTA LMG – Karnafuly joint venture consortium has delivered three Model 450 cutter suction dredges to the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA). On Wednesday January 18 the vessels… Read More