The superior quality of U.S. soybeans and corn is recognized around the world, and barge transportation plays a role in that. U.S. soybeans typically have fewer foreign materials, less breakage… Read More
South America
South America’s Parana River system is one of the continent’s most important. The second longest river after the Amazon, it arises in the central Brazilian plateau at the confluence… Read More
The Rio de la Plata Administrator Commission (CARP), a bi-national commission of Argentina and Uruguay, has awarded a Boskalis consortium the $128.9 million contract to dredge the Uruguyan… Read More
The Venezuelan Instituto Nacional de Canalizaciones, INCANAL, has contracted China Communications Construction Company LTD (CCCC) to dredge the navigation channel of the local Orinoco River, the nation’s government… Read More
Latin America’s busiest port, the Port of Santos, Brazil, expects to receive larger vessels following recovery works that deepened berths between warehouses 12-A and 23 in a 1,700-meter… Read More
Jan de Nul has started dredging at the Ecuadorian Port of Manta, following a crowded tender last year, which was awarded to Envisan, the environmental division of the… Read More
The Brazilian Ministry of Transports, Ports and Civil Aviation (MTPA) has included Maranhao state-run Port Administrator Companhia Docas do Maranhao (Codomar) in a nation’s concessions program, also known… Read More
Jan Van Den Driessche, WEDA’s New President for the South America Chapter Discusses Plans for the Region The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has welcomed a new president for the South… Read More
