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JUNE 2005

WEDA's Silver Anniversary Congress

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
June 19-22, 2005
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CONTENTS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Tony Slinn Tel: +44-(0)1737-379159
Email: tony.slinn@lrfairplay.com
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Stephen Cousins Tel: +44-(0)1737-
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WEDA executive director Larry Patella on why you should be in New
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The Eastern Dredging Association Heavily congested Brazil has been crying out for more ports – Rob WEDA's Silver Anniversary Congress
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June 19-22, 2005
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WEDA XXV & TAMU 37 DPC AMERICAS

Way Down Yonder

“I’m always wondering if it would have been best in my life if I’d stayed like I
was in New Orleans, having a ball...”

Larry Patella and early settlers laid her foundations

at last year’s while artists, chefs, musicians, writers,
WODCON in politicians – and dredgers – built her into
Hamburg the Queen of the Mississippi.
And no matter if this is your first visit
to New Orleans or your tenth, you’ll be
thrilled with your stay at the Astor
Crowne Plaza Hotel in the French Quarter
where WEDA and Texas A & M
University will treat you to an outstanding
technical and social programme. The red spot marks the
With its mission statement that Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel
Dredging Creates a Strong Economy and
a Cleaner Environment, WEDA’s chosen
Dredging for Sustainability as its Silver
ESSENTIAL
Anniversary celebration theme. It will
allow delegates to focus on the
INFORMATION
importance and need for dredging – quite ♦ DATES – June 19-22 in the Astor Crowne
simply, the process by which ports, Plaza Hotel, New Orleans, USA.
harbours, inland waterways and ♦ ORGANISERS – the Western Dredging
navigation channels are maintained so Association
that ships may pass safely. tel: +1-360-750-0209; fax: +1-360-750-1445;
That focus is balanced by awareness email: weda@comcast.net;

A
nd once you’ve been to the
Crescent City, you’ll understand
why the immortal Louis Armstrong
felt that way, writes Western Dredging
Association executive director Larry
Patella.
The Mississippi River first defined her,
carving out her crescent shape, explorers
that the marine environment is maintained
in a healthy and sustainable condition
through dredging – not only essential to
support life, but essential for the stability
of our economy.
So come join us this June 19-22 for the
most exciting social and stimulating
technical dredging programme of 2005!
web: www.westerndredging.org
♦ ACCOMMODATION – WEDA’s arranged special
rates at the HQ hotel, the Astor Crowne
Plaza. Call them from within the US on 888-
696-4806, internationally on +1-504-696-
4806, and be sure to mention you’re
attending WEDA XXV and Texas A & M’s 37
Annual Dredging Seminar.

The Social Programme

...is tailored to maximize your
opportunity to enjoy New Orleans’
French Quarter and all the city has to
offer
In addition to WEDA’s Ice Breaker – often
referred to as the most important social event
of the year! – keen golfers won’t want to
miss the 13th George Watts Open
Tournament.
And what better city could we have found
than New Orleans for our Spouses Tours?
Ranked as the city’s oldest neighbourhood,
the French Quarter is laced with European
flavour, its narrow streets ablaze with
Mediterranean colour, intricate balconies and
full of sounds and mysteries.
Don’t wait! Register now at...
www.westerndredging.org

Jazz funerals are a New Orleans
tradition

Coffee and beignets at the Café Du

Monde opposite Jackson Square are a

New Orleans comes alive at night
Typical French Quarter alley must!

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Exhibitors
As we went to press, and in alphabetical ♦ CSI Wireless ♦ Dredging Supply Co.
order, they were... Booth Contact – Lyle Geck Booth Contact – Bob Wetta
Email: tsehult@csi-wireless.com Email: dredge@dscdredge.com
♦ Advanced Flow Technologies ♦ Damen Dredging Equipment ♦ Dredge Technology Corp.
Booth Contact – Robert Batey Booth Contact – David Tenwolde Booth Contact – Ruud Owerkerk
Email: rbatey@advancedflow.com Email: mn@damendredging.com Email: dredge@dtcihcholland.com
♦ ANAMAR Environmental Consulting ♦ Dredging and Port Construction ♦ Elastec/American Marine
Booth Contact – Jim McCullough Booth Contacts – Tony Slinn and Adam Foster Booth Contact – Mark Wilke
Email: jmccullough@anamarine.com Email: dpc@lrfairplay.com Email: elastec@elastec.com
♦ Anvil Attachments ♦ Ellicott Dredges
Booth Contact – Larry Carlisle Booth Contact – Paul Quinn
Email: larry@proline.com Email: pquinn@dredge.com
♦ Arc Surveying & Mapping ♦ EnviroFuels
Booth Contact – John Sawyer Booth Contact – Jim Emerson
Email: darndt@arcsurveyors.com Email: jim.emerson@envirofuelslp.com
♦ Bean Stuyvesant, LLC ♦ ER&DC, USACE
Booth Contact – Arthur Burgoyne Booth Contact – Billie Skinner
Email: Aburgoyne@cfbean.com Email: billie.h.skinner@erdc.usace.army.mil
♦ Cable Arm ♦ Fugro West
Booth Contact – Ray Bergeron Booth Contact – Jim Grant
Email: Info@cablearm.com Email: jgrant@fugro.com
♦ Collins Engineering ♦ General Laboratories
Booth Contact – Nick Nicholson
DPC's sales manager Adam Foster at Booth Contact – Thomas Seabrook
Email: Nicholson@collinsengr.com last year's show Email: tms@gel.com

The Conference
Afternoon Session 2B: Dredging and the
Environment
Chair: Bob Engler, USACE Engineering Research
& Development Centre (ER&DC)
1.30-2.00 – Hamilton Wetlands Restoration
A unique forum for discussion between dredging Project: An Environmental Opportunity for
Dredging in San Francisco Bay, Steve Bianchi,
contractors, port authorities, government agencies, Shaw Group; Gregory L. Hartman, Dalton,
environmentalists, consultants, academicians and Olmsted & Fuglevand, Inc.; the late Robert J.
Hopman, Shaw Group, and Jack Word, Weston
civil and marine engineers Environmental Inc.
2.00-2.30 – Channel Maintenance and Coastal
Restoration in Louisiana, Edmond J. Russo, Jr.

W
ith the theme Dredging For
Sustainability, the three-day WEDA
XXV and TAMU 37 conference
programme’s backed by a technical exhibition
available to all delegates. Though subject to change,
as we went to press the agenda was as follows:
MONDAY, JUNE 20
Session 1 – 9.00-14.00: Dredging Theory and
Equipment
Chair: Dr. R. Randall, Texas A&M University
9.00-9.30 – Prediction of Slurry Pump
Component Wear and Cost, A. Sellgren,
G. Addie, GIW Industries, Inc. and K. Pagalthivarthi
9.30-10.00 – Laboratory Dredge Carriage for
Modelling Dredge Operations, R. Randall, Texas
A&M University; P. de Jong, S. Sonye, N. Krippner,
Digital Automation and Control Systems, Inc. and
J. Henriksen, Texas A&M University
10.00-10.30 – Break
10.30-11.00 – The Cutting of Water Saturated
Sand, the Complete Solution, S. A. Miedema,
Delft University of Technology
11.00-11.30 – FEM Analyses of Cutting of
Anisotropy Densely Compacted and Saturated
Sand, J. He, Delft University of Technology
11.30-12.00 – New Dredging Equipment: 8”
Amphibious Dredge – Bob Wetta, Dredging
Supply Inc.
12.00-1.30 – Lunch
Afternoon Session 2A: Case Studies of
Dredging Projects
Chair: Dr. B. Edge, Texas A&M University
1.30-2.00 – Economic and Contracting
Justifications for Geotechnical Site
Investigations, Kyle D. Johnson, Great Lakes
Dredge and Dock
2.00-2.30 – Case Studies on the Use of
Environmental Clamshell Buckets for
Remediation of Contaminated Sediments,
Darrell Nicholas, John Lajeunesse and Ray
Bergeron, Cable Arm Inc.
2.30-3.00 – Local Sediment Management at
Leeward: Going-Through in Providenciales, Turks
& Caicos, Leaf Erickson, Billy L. Edge, Texas A&M
University and Karyn M. Erickson, Erickson
Consulting Engineers
3.00-3.30 – Break
3.30-4.00 – Sustainable Approach to Dredging
for the Bosphorus Immersed Tube Tunnel
Crossing in Istanbul, Vahan Tanal, Parsons
Brinckerhoff, and Isikhan Guler, Yuksel Proje
International
4.00-4.30 – Application of CSDs in Deep Water:
Archimedes VS Newton, G.A.P.L Teheux and
S. Bergkamp, VOSTA LMG
4.30-5.00 – Third Generation Rock Cutting
System for Cutter Dredges with 3000-6000kW
Cutter Power: Field Results, Klaas Wijma,
VOSTA LMG
and Linda G. Mathies, USACE, New Orleans
District
2.30-3.00 – Maintenance Dredging in a
Sensitive Environment Case Study: Manchester
Entrance Channel, Carlos G. Peña, CLE
Engineering
3.00-3.30 – Break
Afternoon Session 2C – 1.30-3.00: USACE
National Dredging Programme Overview
Chair: T. Verna, USACE
Afternoon Session 3A – 3.00-5.00: WEDA
Environmental Commission Panel
Chair: C. Vogt, USEPA
Session 3B – 3.00-5.00: WEDA Safety
Commission Panel
Chair: T. Verna, USACE
TUESDAY, JUNE 21
Session 1A – 08.30-12.00: Monitoring and
Surveying of Dredging Projects
Chair: Ancil Taylor, Bean Environmental, Inc.
8.30-9.00 – Monitoring of Sediment Plumes
Generated by the Subaqueous Disposal of
Dredged Material, John T. Morris, Scott E.
McDowell, Science Applications International
Corporation; Thomas J. Fredette, USACE New
England Division, and Christopher R. Kincaid,
Dutch Island Geophysical Services
9.00-9.30 – Turbidity, TSS, and Toxicity: An
Investigation of Operational Impacts Due to

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♦ Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.
Booth Contact – Bill Hanson
Email: WHHanson@gldd.com
♦ Hagglunds Drives
Booth Contact – Adam Houseknecht
Email: adam.houseknecht@us.hagglunds.com
♦ Hagler Systems
Booth Contact – Bob Hagler
Email: bobhagler@haglersystems.com
♦ HYPAC
Booth Contact – Lourdes Evans
Email: Lourdes@hypack.com
♦ Innerspace Technology
Booth Contact – Richard Easson
Email: reasson@innerspacetechnology.com
♦ Kamloops Precision Machine
Booth Contact – Eric Dean
Email: edean@Shawbiz.ca
♦ Measutronics Corporation
Booth Contact – Greg Harbeson
Email: greg_harberson@measutronics.com
♦ Metso Minerals
Booth Contact – Albert ‘Bubba’ Savage
Email: Bubba.Savage@metso.com
Dredging-Induced Resuspension of Sediments,
Nick Buhbe, AMEC Earth & Environmental;
Chris Stransky, Nautilus Environmental; Bob
Moore, MBC Applied Environmental Sciences;
Tom Johnson, Port of Long Beach, and Steve
Bay, Southern California Coastal Water
Research Project
9.30-10.00 – Suspended Sediment Plumes
Associated with Mechanical Dredging at the
Port of Oakland, California, Douglas Clarke,
USACE ER&DC; Andrew Martin, Weston
Solutions; Charles Dickerson, Weston
Solutions, and David Moore, USACE ER&DC
10.00-10.30 – Break
10.30-11.00 – A Preliminary Assessment of the
Incidental Take of Sturgeon by Dredges, Dena
Dickerson and Douglas Clarke, USACE ER&DC
11.00-11.30 – Locating Utilities: A Critical
Component in Dredge Planning – Case Study:
Gas Lines in the Providence River, John A.
DeRugeris and Susan E. Nilson, CLE
Engineering
11.30-12.00 – Using Dual Frequency Echo
Sounders for Determination of Suspended Silt
in the Water Column, Larry A. Buchanan,
Odom Hydrographic Systems, Inc., and Tim
Welp, USACE ER&DC
Session 1B – 8.30-12.00: Dredged Material
Disposal
Chair: Norman Francingues, OA Systems
Corporation
8.30-9.00 – Don’t Let Your Disposal Site Go
Sour on You, Norman Francingues, OA Systems
Corporation
9.00-9.30 – Open Water Disposal Optimization
Using Linear Programming, Trefor Williams,
M. Jafari, and H. Valian
9.30-10.00 – Confined Disposal Facility
Utilization Optimization, Derek Wilson,
USACE ER&DC
10.00-10.30 – Break
10.30-11.00 – Dredging and Geotextile Tube
Dewatering of Digested Bio-Solids, New
WEDA XXV & TAMU 37 DPC AMERICAS
♦ Mobile Dredging & Pumping Co.
Booth Contact – Alexander Krantz
Email: akrantz@mobiledredging.com
♦ MTG Corp.
Booth Contact – Sonya Chesson
Email: sonya.chesson@mtggroup.com
♦ Odom Hydrographic Systems
Booth Contact – Kim Dailey
Email: email@odomhydrographic.com
♦ Phoenix Process Equipment Co.
Booth Contact – John Waugh
Email: johnw@dewater.com
♦ Reson
Booth Contact – Al Rougeau
Email: arougeau@reson.com
♦ Rotonics Mfg.
Booth Contact – Claretta Jo Segura
Email: brownwood@rotonics.com
♦ Royal Purple
Booth Contact – Peter Dalrymple
Email: rpindtech@royalpurple.com
♦ SAIC
Booth Contact – John Morris
Email: john.t.morris@saic.com
Orleans East Municipal Sewage Treatment
Plant, Jack Fowler, Geotec Associates; Kirby
Larkin and Mike Duke
11.00-11.30 – A Stick in the Mud: US Coast
Guard, Slip 36 Dredging and Rebuild, Seattle
Washington, Peter Leon, Washington
Department of Natural Resources and
Stephanie Stirling, USACE Seattle District
11.30-12.00 – Environmental Port
Management: Dredging Brazilian Ports, An
Example of the Port of Rio Grande, R.J. Torres,
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil.
12.00-1.30 – Lunch
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
7.00-8.30 – WEDA Environmental Commission
Meeting
Session 1A – 8.30-12.00: Dredging Projects
Chair: Greg Hartman, DOF, Inc.
8.30-9.00 – Miami River Dredging for
Sustainability, William Pearson and David Cole,
Weston Solutions, Inc.
9.00-9.30 – Channel Deepening in the Port of
New York & New Jersey: Utility Relocations,
Thomas Constanzo, Port Authority of NY & NJ
9.30-10.00 – Impacts of Evolving Shipping and
Vessel Characteristics on Berth Maintenance
Dredging, Marcel Hermans and Sebastian
Degens, Port of Portland
10.00-10.30 – Break
10.30-11.00 – Supporting a Vision:
Redeveloping the Port of Bellingham
Waterfront, Michael Stoner and Steve Jilk, Port
of Bellingham; Mark Larsen, Joe Scott, Anne
Fitzpatrick and Christian Houck, RETEC
Group Inc.
11.00-11.30 – New England and Florida Case
Studies of Dredging Effects on Seagrasses,
Bruce Sabol and Deborah Shafer,
USACE ER&DC
11.30-12.00 – LNG: Accessing an Energy
Option, Margaret W. (Peg) Johnson and
Andrea Rosenthal, Parsons Brinckerhoff
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♦ Salem-Republic Rubber Co.
Booth Contact – Jim Willis
Email: jwillis@salem-republic.com
♦ Sevenson Environmental Services
Booth Contact – James Damon
Email: JMDamon@sevenson.com
♦ SNF Inc.
Booth Contact – Patrick O’Donnell
Email: podonnell@snfhe.com
♦ Taylor Engineering
Booth Contact – John Adams
Email: jadams@taylorengineering.com
♦ Tri-Flo International
Booth Contact – James Griffin
Email: jgriffin@triflo.com
♦ Trimble Navigation
Booth Contact – Keith Trider
Email: keithtrider@trimble.com
♦ VOSTA LMG
Booth Contact – Sandy Bergkamp
Emil: Bergkamps@vostalmg.com
♦ Weston Solutions
Booth Contact – John Pauling
Email: John.Pauling@westonsolutions.com
Session 1B – 8.30-12.00: Environmental
Dredging
Chair: Philip Spadaro, BBL
8.30-9.00 – Performance Standards for
Environmental Dredging Projects: Are We
Entering a New Era? Jeff Budzich, Steve
Garbaciak and Ram Mohan, Blasland,
Bouck & Lee
9.00-9.30 – Important Factors in Specifying and
Contracting Environmental Dredging Projects and
Case Histories, Richard H. Weber, Natural
Resource Technology Inc.; Timothy J. Harrington,
Harrington Engineering and Construction Inc. and
Richard G. Fox, Natural Resource Technology, Inc.
9.30-10.00 – Construction Challenges and
Solutions: Intertidal Sediment Remediation,
Middle Waterway Area C, Tacoma, Washington,
R.F. Moore, Hart Crowser, Inc.; T. Goodman,
Washington State Department of Natural
Resources, and B. Conley, KPFF
10.00-10.30 – Break
10.30-11.00 – Onondaga Lake Sediment
Remediation: Dredging and Capping Alternatives,
Mike Palermo, Mike Palermo Consulting; Don
Hayes, University of Utah; Dan Reible, University
of Texas; Steve Warren, Parsons, and John
McAuliffe, Honeywell
11.00-11.30 – Water Quality Monitoring During
Capping at the Pacific Sound Resources
Superfund Site, Marine Sediments Operable Unit,
Seattle, Washington, Shannon Dunn, Paul
Krause, Kris Fabian, Blasland, Bouck & Lee and
Travis Shaw, USACE
11.30-12.00 – Environmental Dredging for
Sustainability, Robert Romagnoli, Blasland,
Bouck & Lee
Final Session – 12.00-12.30
12.00-12.10 – Concluding Remarks, John Adams,
WEDA President
12.10-12.20 – Best Paper Award, R. Mohan,
BBL, and Jim Rausch, DCA
12.20-12.30 – Door Prizes, L. Patella, WEDA
Adjourn Conference
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DPC AMERICAS Port Construction
For years, heavily congested Brazil has been crying out for more ports, but to
no avail – then, like London’s famous red buses, two come along at more or
less the same time, writes ROB WARD
T
he news is a relief to shippers and
port users in the South American
country as they’ve had to suffer
severe congestion and lack of space for
almost all commodities during the past two
years.
Now, as you read this, the two new
ports are about to come on stream in the
north eastern state of Bahia:
♦ The Port of Cotegipe – usually called ‘C-
Port,’ and
♦ The Port of Ponta da Lage.
Both are located in the Baia de Todos os
Santos (All Saints Bay), which is home to
five other port complexes, the largest of
which is state capital port Salvador.
The increased production of soya in
Brazil, especially in this isolated, spacious,
but impoverished inland state, has created
JUNE 2005 D R E D G I N G A N D P O RT C O N S T R U C T I O N A M E R I C A S
Brazil’s Baia
de Todos os
Santos
Not Just One...
pressure on ports’ export capacity – as has
devaluation of Brazil’s currency, the real,
which made prices more than competitive
on the international market.
OPERATORS
Ponta da Laje will focus on exporting
cars for the growing automobile industry at
nearby Camacari – Ford are the main
players here.
The TPC company has won a tender to
TPC directors (l. to r.) Eng. Sergio
operate Ponte da Lage for the next five Faria, operations, Dr. Leonardo Barros,
years and its managers say they’ll switch commercial, and Dr. Luiz Eduardo
the 10,000 cars per month they already Chamadoiro, logistics
handle through the Port of Salvador’s
public Codeba (port authority) terminals owned by Grupo Moinho Dias Branco
and look to up the total to around 30,000 (GMDB), TPC has access to an area where
cars per month. some 25,000 cars can be securely stored
In the grounds of nearby wheat mills and pre-delivery inspections carried out.
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C-Port under construction

Strategic Position
C-Port was originally destined solely to import wheat for Grupo Moinho Dias
Branco’s biscuit and pasta plant...
But, Demir Lourenco told me, when the two partners realised what a good strategic location
they had – along with plenty of room for expansion and rail connections – they started making
Artist’s impression of the completed
inquiries among soya exporters. C-Port
A manager for Port of Salvador container terminal Tecon Salvador, Lourenco commented:
“The competition’s really hotting up now for soya exports. Aside from the public berths in and even Salvador, which has between
Salvador, the international Bunge group has also decided to build a soya export terminal at the 10m and 12m.
Port of Aratu. There’re also soya terminals at the Port of Ilheus, which is not so far away.” “With the extra draught, we’ll be able to
Aratu port complex, pictured above, has previously been used for chemical exports, as well as handle much bigger vessels and that will
liquid bulk and solid bulk cargoes, but a fourth soya berth is likely to attract growers from Bahia’s considerably improve our productivity,”
western areas. And under the terms of the private concession granted, the facility must be ready claims Custodio.
for operations within two years. TPC’s managers are talking to a number
of soya producers and say they’re close to
clinching deals that will bring in business
GMDB, who claim to be one of the Presently, TPC is handling wheat next year, possibly in time for the Brazilian
biggest producers of pasta and biscuits in imports through Salvador’s public berths, soya export season, which starts in March
Latin America, are also partnering TPC to where operations are slow owing to 2006.
operate C-Port – which will cost R200M congestion – “But once we start operations
(about US$81M) once the various phases at C-Port, we’ll be able to discharge 300 FINALLY...
of the project are completed. As this is tonnes per hour and around 3,500 tonnes The powers that be in Brazil are said to
written, around R100M has already been per day,” promises Custodio. be pleased that the new ports are opening
spent preparing three berths for the When they begin next year, the soya up in a quick, and relatively cheap, manner.
opening phase. GMDB has a controlling exports will initially be transported by Chronic congestion in Brazil has started
51% shareholding in the newly-established road to C-Port, but there’re plans to use to hinder President Lula’s efforts to help
joint venture – also called C-Port – TPC the the rail network as soon as possible, pay off international debts with a rapid
remaining 49%. according to TPC president Sergio Sergio export drive that will also increase the
C-Port will specialise in importing wheat Faria. country’s trade surplus.
and exporting soya, but other goods – such Only one of the first phase three berths He’s also promised to raise living
as fertilisers – will also be handled in the will be available for C-port’s opening, TPC standards – and port construction is very
future. The new port will initially have the admitted, but that berth will have a 14m much the key to that too.
capacity to handle 600,000 tonnes of alongside depth – considerably more than More info at www.lisbrasil.com.br/
wheat annually, plus facilities for the the rival port of Aratu, which has 10m, newsports.htm
export of soya and import of fertilisers for
the soya-growing regions of western Bahia.

MOVING SWIFTLY
C-Port operations manager João
Custodio told me that: “Everything is in
place, the environmental license to operate
has been granted and all we’re waiting for
is the installation of four buoys and
approval for the turning basin to be given
by the Brazilian navy.”
As we went to press, C-Port managers
were also holding meetings with Brazilian
customs officials about turning 200,000m2
of the port’s surrounding 300,000m2
industrial complex into a bonded area,
complete with warehouses and other
facilities. Overall expenditure on the entire
complex – which will employ around
4,500 once completed – has already
exceeded R1Bn.
Custodio commented: “One of our big
advantages is that we’re not part of
Codeba, so there’re no unions – we have
our own workforce. Also, we’ll be
operating automated systems that don’t
require that much manpower.”
Even major ports like Santos are congested

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CB-8’s clearly
marked below
A Diamond Year “By this time in 2006, the Port of
Savannah will have over 9,800 feet of
continuous dock, increasing what’s
already the largest single container
terminal facility on the East and Gulf
Coasts”
T
hat was the confident report from
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA)
executive director Doug Marchand
as the 2,100-foot Container Berth 8 (CB-
8) expansion of Garden City Terminal
(GCT) reached the halfway stage in April.
It was a fitting way to celebrate the
start of GPA’s Diamond Jubilee –
dredging, plus the demolition of an
existing structure, have already been
completed; a new storage area is currently
under construction and as you read this,
two new super post-Panamax cranes are
scheduled to arrive.
Container Berth 8 will include an
additional 72 acres of storage area and
increase GCT’s capacity by 20% when
the final phase is completed.
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“We’re encouraged this exciting new
project is on schedule and on budget,”
Marchand said. “Our steady growth this
fiscal year further underscores the
importance of our expansion
programme.”
SURGING AHEAD
That growth was underlined in January
when the GPA posted double-digit figures
in every category as exports surged.
“The demand for Georgia products
abroad continues to have a significant
economic impact here at home with
kaolin clay and paper products leading
the way,” Marchand was happy to
confirm. Of the total 150,626 TEU
handled in January, GPA exported 79,171
8

On-dock railhead boosts Savannah’s
productivity
TEU – a 19.7% increase over January
2004.
Across the board, GPA’s terminals
experienced impressive gains during the
first three quarters of fiscal year 2005
(July 2004 to April 2005). Total TEU was
1,307,892M – an 11.9% increase – and
in March record gate volumes were
posted as a result of increased exports.
Gate activity for the month exceeded
114,000 moves, up 16% on the prior
month.
“All of this was accomplished without
delays at our gates,” said Marchand,
“and is a tribute to the hard work of our
employees and the people who serve
commerce through the Port of
Savannah.”
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Governor Sonny Perdue helps out at
Savannah
Cash & Jobs
During a breakfast at his mansion to
celebrate GPA’s 60th anniversary,
Governor Sonny Perdue released
figures showing the tremendous
economic impact that Georgia ports
have on the state
Nearly 276,000 jobs depend on the ports,
which handled over US$69.3Bn worth of
goods during 2004, said Governor Perdue.
“I’m proud to report that Georgia’s ports
are creating new jobs and driving new
business opportunities throughout our state,”
he continued. “Our ports are more than just
ships, concrete and containers – they
represent the thriving and prosperous business
environment Georgia has to offer.”
Along with the inland barge terminals, the
deepwater ports contribute $10.8Bn in
income, $35.4Bn in revenue and some $1.4Bn
in state and local taxes. Top commodities
exported from Georgia include kaolin clay,
forest products, poultry and auto and
machinery units. Top imports include metals,
retail goods and industrial machinery.
Governor Perdue recently made a string of
economic development announcements that
will create new jobs, build on the state’s
existing logistics and transportation
infrastructure and produce additional cargo
throughput for the ports, including:
♦ Bass Pro Shops will open a 600,000
square foot outdoor sports and regional
distribution centre likely to create 400 jobs
and bring over 2,000 TEU through the Port of
Savannah
♦ Pirelli Tire North America are opening a
247,000 square foot distribution centre
generating 40 jobs and bringing a further
2,000 TEU through Savannah

First section of CB-8 gets its concrete cap
Port Projects DPC AMERICAS

Surging – Garden City Terminal achieves record results
During the expansion programme, the
GPA has also improved security and in
April awarded a further $430,000 in
On Top
security contracts – made possible via a Savannah’s getting used to plaudits – it
grant from the Georgia Emergency was ranked the USA’s number one
Management Agency. The cash will go on distribution and logistics location
a series of infrastructure and technology The award came from
improvements to regulate and monitor monthly business
access in and out of GCT without having magazine Expansion
to allocate additional manpower. Management and was
based on findings by a
GARDEN CITY TERMINAL variety of public sources,
Owned and operated by GPA, the including the US Bureau of
1,200-acre terminal currently features Economic Analysis, the
7,726 feet of continuous berthing and Bureau of Transportation
Also a nice
over 1.3M square feet of covered storage. Statistics, the Census place to live...
The terminal’s equipped with thirteen Bureau, the Federal
high-speed container cranes – two super Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway
post-Panamax and 11 post-Panamax – Administration and Rand McNally.
plus an extensive inventory of yard The ranking covered 331 US metro areas,
handling equipment. which were assessed in terms of workforce,
It’s also well served by transport infrastructure, road conditions, interstate
facilities and is within a few miles of both highways, rail-to-highway connections,
the major east-west and north-south waterborne / air cargo resources and
interstate highways, with access to over capabilities.
100 trucking companies. Additionally,

CB-8’s storage area is next
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Additional warehousing is vital

Call to Action
The Port of Savannah anticipates 150%
growth in under 15 years, says DOUG
MARCHAND
“This is a call to action,” Marchand told
over 400 of Savannah’s business and
maritime leaders during his State of the Port
address late last year.
“Based on state of the art economic
modelling, we anticipate that Savannah will
handle at least 4M TEU by 2019,” he
continued, calling on his audience to help
Now at the halfway mark! him “mobilize local, state and national
leaders to fully understand the Port of
Savannah’s strategic importance to global
both CSX Transportation and Norfolk first quarter 2006 and to be followed trade and prepare for future growth.”
Southern Railroad provide ‘Class 1’ rail immediately with the development of Beyond road, rail and infrastructure
services, with the James D. Mason On- additional terminal space to further improvements, Marchand said GPA had
Terminal Intermodal Container Transfer enhance productivity and operating projected the need for 30M to 40M
Facility offering overnight rail service to efficiencies. additional square feet of warehouse space to
Atlanta, plus two to four-day deliveries to Plans are also in hand to deepen the accommodate anticipated growth. And he
such key inland destinations as Charlotte, port’s access channel from its present 42ft made job training a vital issue – “Port
Chicago, Dallas and Memphis. to 48ft at mean low water in order to operators construction, transportation
It’s the continuing diversification of accommodate the next generation of box services and distribution centres will all
Savannah’s ocean carrier portfolio, ships – the GPA expects completion of continue to create tens of thousands of new
however, that’s made CB-8 – and future this project by 2010. jobs in and around Savannah,” he concluded.
expansion projects – essential. Sailings as More info at www.gaports.com
fast as 22 days from burgeoning Asian
ports, and nine days from Europe, have
led more and more retailers to make
Savannah their import distribution centre
– they’ve built over 9M square feet of
warehousing that annually generates
more than 300,000 TEU.
As this is written, a comprehensive
paving and overlay programme, designed
to transform GCT from a chassis to a
stacked operation, is also well on its way
to completion.
CB-8 has followed hard on the heels of
CB-7, which was completed in December
1999.
Doug Marchand led the ground
breaking ceremony in January last year,
announcing the two distinct phases of
work:
1). A US$2.4M million contract to
GCT’s first two super post-Panamax cranes slide under Talmadge Bridge – two
demolish an abandoned dock at the site more are due about now
and dredge the ship berthing area – the
latter performed by Norfolk Dredging
Company
2). The $20.5M contract awarded to
Misener Marine Construction to build the
pile-supported concrete dock.

FINALLY...
When complete, CB-8 will total 83
acres, including the 2,100ft quay, and be
equipped with an ample supply of the
latest cargo handling equipment and
technology.
The two new super post-Panamax
cranes will become operational with CB-
8’s first phase completion, anticipated in
Savannah’s preparing for the next generation of box ships

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Worksites around the bay
T
he project will widen the 51-mile
long channel to 530 feet from 400
feet and deepen it to 45 feet from 40
feet.
It will also take in the Houston-
Galveston Navigation Channel (HGNC)
and see 12ft-deep lanes constructed across
the bay on either side of the channel to
allow slower barge traffic to navigate.
The project’s vital to the Port of
Houston’s future, especially now that the
Bayport Container and Cruise Terminal
project is underway – the first phase is on
course for completion in mid-2006.
Widening and deepening means 60
million cubic yards of new material will be
dredged with an estimated 190 million
cubic yards of material to be deposited
over the 50-year life of the project. And
that material is being used to create 4,250
acres of marshland and to rebuild historic
islands that have eroded over the years:
♦ The marshes will act as nurseries for fish
and shrimp, as well as filtering the water
in Galveston Bay
♦ The islands will be bird sanctuaries and
boater destinations, and in addition
♦ New oyster reefs and other
environmental developments are included
in the project.
PROJECT BREAKDOWN
A coalition including the Port of
Houston Authority (PHA), US Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE), plus local,
state and federal government agencies
Ensuring safe navigation
to Bayport
The Biggest
Over the next 50 years, the HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL
DEEPENING AND WIDENING PROJECT will cost US$705.23M and
involve environmental engineering on a massive scale
working with private contractors, are popular boater destination, and
driving the project and call themselves the ♦ Construction of access channels and
Beneficial Uses Group (BUG). The plan anchorages for recreational boaters in mid-
calls for the following to be created – and lower Galveston Bay.
primarily with material dredged from the To make it happen, there are no less
expansion and maintenance of the HGNC: than nine separate contracts, some
♦ The 4,250 acres of salt marsh already completed, some in progress – let’s look at
mentioned, to restore lost wetlands them in more detail.
♦ Evia Island, a six-acre bird-nesting site 1). Oyster Reefs Mitigation – before the
♦ An underwater berm to provide ship channel expansion began, studies
topographic relief for fishery habitat, and determined that 118 acres of oyster reefs
♦ Partial restoration of Goat Island in would need to be replaced. Created with
Buffalo Bayou. limestone rock, ‘oyster pads’ were
The plan also includes: strategically placed in mid-Galveston Bay –
♦ Restoration of the eroded Redfish and recent sampling showed oysters, some
Island in Galveston Bay, once a very of commercial size, colonizing the reefs.
The Port
Houston’s a 25-mile-
long complex just a
few hours’ sailing from
the Gulf of Mexico
Ranked first in the US in foreign
waterborne commerce, second in total
tonnage and sixth in the world, the port
moves around 190M tons of cargo annually
and caters to well over 6,000 vessel calls.
About 88 steamship lines offer service,
linking Houston with 1,053 ports in 203
countries – and it’s also home to a US$15Bn
petrochemical complex, largest in the nation
and second largest worldwide.
More info at www.portofhouston.com

Planning for the future
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The project’s vital to development of the Bayport complex
2). The Offshore Extension – deepening
and widening is now complete.
3). Jetty and Entrance Channel – contract
dredging has been completed and the
channel now extends 14.4 miles into the
Gulf of Mexico from the Bolivar
Peninsula.
4). Lower Bay – expansion of this portion
of the channel has also been completed
and two beneficial use sites have been
created from the material dredged: Evia
Island and Bolivar Marsh (see panel).
5). Upper Bay – also now completed, the
contract including construction of
Atkinson Marsh and placement of material
in two existing upland disposal sites
(known as ‘cells 14 and 15’).
At Atkinson Marsh, by Atkinson Island,
levees created four cells: one filled with
material from the expansion of the
channel’s mid bay section; another with
maintenance material from the upper bay
reach and the final two will be filled with
channel maintenance dredgings over the
Mid Bay Beneficial Use Site
...was the final and largest part of the
mid bay contract
Coastal and dredging engineering firm
Gahagan & Bryant Associates (GBA) played
a major role in the construction of what will
eventually become about 1,100 acres of both
marsh and upland habitat.
To build it, levees were first created that will
be filled in phases as maintenance dredged
material becomes available. GBA co-ordinated
the design effort with USACE, performed
independent technical reviews of the design
plans and specifications produced by USACE
for dredging the channel, provided inspection
services at the beneficial use sites and
monitored the development of those sites.
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next 20 years. Until they’re filled, they’ll
serve as open water lagoon habitat.
USACE has used cells 14 and 15 as
disposal islands for many years, but this
contract enabled PHA and the Corps to
start construction of levees around them –
in fact, this and the following mid bay
contract included construction of 16,830
feet of levees.
6). Mid Bay – was only completed a
couple of months ago and called for
material from the channel’s mid bay
section to create a third marsh site and be
added to the offshore beneficial uses berm
– in addition to the levee building at cells
14 and 15.
A dredger also created the North
Boaters Cut (north of the mid bay marsh),
restored Five Mile Cut and created a
circulation channel to the south side of
mid bay marsh.
The largest part of the mid bay contract,
however, was construction of the Mid Bay
Beneficial Use Site (see panel). By 2050,
GBA were also heavily involved in the rest of
the project, their services including
establishment of environmental requirements,
planning and supervision of hydrographic and
topographic surveys, circulation and
sedimentation studies and geotechnical
investigations among much else.
And as a result, they won the coveted
Honour Award from the American
Consulting Engineering Council for
‘fostering excellence in engineering design on
the dredged materials and environmental
resources project for the Port of Houston
Authority’s ship channel modernization
project.’
More info at www.gba-inc.com
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the site will provide approximately 1,100
acres of both marsh and upland habitat –
600 acres of it within 20 years.
7). Mid Bayou – continuing as this is
written, it includes the reconstruction of
Goat Island and restoration of 40 acres of
land near the San Jacinto Monument in
Buffalo Bayou.
Goat Island subsided and eroded in
recent years and the plan called for a two-
island concept with a connecting
breakwater that’ll create almost 200 acres
of upland habitat and will be managed
and maintained by the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department (TPWD).
Across the channel from Goat Island,
PHA and USACE have built a levee, with
shore protection and fill, along San Jacinto
State Park that’s allowed for the recovery
of about 40 acres – now restored to
parkland by TPWD.
8). Upper Bayou – partially completed,
but with various works, including
completion of levees at Lost Lake,
Mid Bay Beneficial Use Site under
construction...
...and completed last December
(photos courtesy GBA)
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Great Lakes Dredge and Dock at work
in the channel

Building levees at Atkinson Marsh
now under the mid bayou contract.
9). Lower Bayou – overall deepening and
widening of this section of the HGNC is
virtually complete as this is written and
includes restoration of Redfish Island.
This once popular boater anchorage in
Galveston Bay submerged in recent years
due to erosion and subsidence. At
community meetings, the BUG, PHA and
USACE heard repeatedly that people
wanted the island restored, so partial
restoration was incorporated into the BUG
plan.
Limestone rock and shell was used to
rebuild four acres to function as bird
habitat – with a rookery on one end – plus
a boater’s hook that will maintain calm
water for safe anchorage.
FINALLY...
The HGNC also includes a contract for
improvements to the Galveston Ship
Channel, but it’s presently on hold
awaiting funding of the local cost share.
Newly restored
Redfish Island

Checking on wetland progression
As this is written, however, USACE had
finalized environmental impact studies of
the barge lanes that will run alongside the
ship channel from Morgan’s Point to the
Bolivar Peninsula.
The lanes are in the process of being
dredged to a depth of 12 feet at MLW,
plus a one-foot allowable over-depth for a
distance of 500 feet off the channel’s
centre line on each side. And the work
should have been completed as you read
this, with dredged material placed in the
channel where excess space exists.
The barge lanes will impact 54 acres of
oyster reefs and the Corps’ selected
mitigation sites and issued the contract for
their placement.
It’s been, and continues to be, a massive
undertaking, but if the Port of Houston is
to grow in balance with its surrounding
environment, it’s also an essential
investment in the future.
More info at www.usace.army.mil +
www.portofhouston.com
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Evia & Bolivar
The first beneficial use site to be
completed was Evia Island, followed
by Bolivar Marsh
The BUG decided to include the creation
of a six-acre bird nesting island in their plan
because of a decrease in island habitat – Evia
Island’s now home to thousands of birds of
varying species.
The group recognized dredging of the ship
channel as a great opportunity to replenish
the nesting habitat, but were astounded by
the actual numbers for the first season.
Nesting pairs included an estimated 750 royal
terns, 12 gull-billed terns, 950 sandwich
terns, 50 least terns, 10 forester terns and
450 black skimmers. The federally-listed
endangered brown pelican has also been
using the island for resting and loafing.
The 750-acre Bolivar Marsh, adjacent to
the north side of the Bolivar Peninsula, is
being created by cells filled with dredged
material from the channel – two are full and
a third is partially filled and will be completed
over the next 20 years using maintenance
dredged material.
Engineers and biologists are now waiting
for the material in the two filled cells to settle
and consolidate and will then plant Spartina
Alterniflora vegetation – as well as look for
the development of creeks and ponds that
will mirror those found in Galveston Bay’s
natural marshes. And if that needs a little
help, machinery will be brought in.

Resting and loafing – the
endangered brown pelican

Evia Island under construction
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Canada’s Hamilton
Harbour is an
environmental ‘area of
concern’ in the Great
Lakes – but the port
authority’s working
hard to correct that,
writes BOB MATTHEWS
A
t the western end of Lake Ontario,
the Port of Hamilton is a major
economic generator for Hamilton
city and the surrounding region with recent
annual cargo throughput averaging 12M
tonnes.
Administered by Hamilton Port
Authority (HPA), the port has multiple
docking facilities and is home to a variety
of industries responsible for a diverse range
of cargo, including dry and liquid bulk,
break-bulk and agricultural products.
But it’s also home to sediment that’s
contaminated with polyaromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals...
RANDLE REEF
Key to HPA’s remediation strategy is the
Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan
(RAP). And reports have been prepared
with the intention of identifying current
environmental conditions in the harbour
and recommending methods of improving
water quality, fish and wildlife habitat,
wetlands and more.
Centre stage is the Randle Reef area in
the port’s western sector, identified as being
highly contaminated with both PAHs and
heavy metals.
Through extensive public consultation
with local stakeholders over the past five
years, a ‘confine & cap’ solution has been
adopted. And HPA partnered with
Environment Canada and Ontario’s
Bitumar’s
storage tanks
under
construction
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The Future
Is Green
environment ministry in the study.
Today, the engineering design of the
9.5ha site is underway, with Blasland
Bouck & Lee leading the design team of
Hart Crowser, Riggs Engineering and
Ocean & Coastal Engineers. Several
preliminary design options have been
developed, and next month a preferred
design will be identified through the
application of rigorous evaluation criteria.
That will be carried forward to a detailed
design which will be finalized in late 2006.
Open House
HAMILTON PORT AUTHORITY is working
with the community to remediate
Randle Reef
The campaign included an open house
meeting for stakeholders and residents to
view plans for options to resolve issues
surrounding the contaminated sediment in
Hamilton Harbour – a key component of the
Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan.
More info at
www.hamiltonharbour.ca.

Residents
examine plans
for Randle
Reef
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The primary aim is environmental
improvement – and remediation of Randle
Reef is widely seen as a prerequisite to the
de-listing of Hamilton Harbour as a Great
Lakes ‘area of concern.’ But the port will
win out too – current plans propose a mix
of commercial use and green space. It’s a
beneficial use of highly contaminated
sediment that will enable HPA to capitalize
on under-utilized land at Pier 15 – piers are
numbered roughly sequentially from west
to east – that was acquired over the past
two decades.
LOOK EAST TOO
With much of the 550 acres of port land
already developed, HPA’s also looking at
available real estate in the eastern sector –
Eastport – for current and future activities.
Part of HPA’s remediation strategy, this
140-acre area has been reclaimed using the
harbour’s dredged material and capped
with clean fill.
Eastport’s also the location of Hamilton’s
confined disposal facilities (CDFs) for
dredged material and will ultimately be the
site of a long-term dredged material
management facility – in keeping with
HPA’s goal of protecting and enhancing the
environment.
Already, liquid bulk operations have
been attracted to Eastport’s hinterlands,
where valve and pipeline arrangements
replace direct pier access and do not
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Bitumar plant nears completion
impede dockside marine operations. The
strategic location of Eastport and its
proximity to area highways will likely see
freight ferry operations sited there too – it
may even accommodate wind turbines.
CDF MANAGEMENT
As need dictates, HPA undertakes
maintenance dredging projects to ensure
that seaway draft is maintained, placing the
dredged material in CDFs on Eastport’s
Piers 26 and 27.
Recently, HPA contracted Dean
Construction Company to dredge around
60,000m3 from Eastport’s Strathearne
Avenue Shipping Channel, adjacent to Pier
25, at a cost of about C$1.1M. Dean used
a clamshell dredge to excavate the material,
placing it into barges that transported it to
Pier 26 where it was transferred to trucks
for disposal in the CDF’s ‘Cell 3B.’
Prior to project commencement, the
proposed dredged material was sampled
and analyzed as part of the Canadian
Environmental Assessment Act screening
process. Turbidity monitoring was also
carried out during dredging to ensure it
was not adversely affecting the
environment.
That campaign saw Cell 3B filled to
capacity and the spoil is currently being
capped using clean fill that meets stringent
environmental criteria. Subsequent
surcharge programmes will accelerate the

Material dredged from the harbour...
rate of settlement and allow for future
development on the newly created real
estate.
ENVIRONMENTAL GROWTH
Such programmes mean Hamilton’s well
positioned for the future, but HPA’s
environmental initiatives don’t stop there –
tenants are involved too, recent
developments including:
1). Toronto Tank Lines – involving the

...is shipped by barge and unloaded...
construction of a 35,000 square foot
warehouse and office complex on Pier 26.
Building on reclaimed land meant the
facility had to be pile-supported and
necessitated the use of an engineered
concrete slab for the warehouse floor.
TTL’s operations include storage,
transportation and loading of food grade
products from ships to rail and truck
tankers and, working with them, the port
authority was able to influence
environmentally sound projects:
♦ Waste heat from neighbouring Bitumar
Inc. – generated by Bitumar’s asphalt
...into trucks that dump it...
storage and processing
operations – was reclaimed to
heat TTL’s wash water
♦ Rainwater’s collected in a
large concrete cistern and
used for landscaping
irrigation and sanitary
requirements, and
♦ The steel-framed building

...at an Eastport confined disposal
facility
Bay Area
Restoration
Council
...works alongside the port and is
doing all it can to enhance the
harbour
Based at Hamilton’s McMaster University,
BARC mustered 150 volunteers to plant 950
willows and dogwoods earlier this year to
protect the shoreline at Princess Point.
BARC also publishes a quarterly newsletter,
Bringing Back the Bay, with subscription
available at...
www.hamiltonharbour.ca/subscribe
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Steelcare plant under construction
is aesthetically pleasing with an imitation
stucco finish.
2). Steelcare – a Canadian owned company
specializing in warehousing, transhipment
and logistical services for finished steel,
their 2004-built, 83,000 square foot
warehouse on Pier 25 was designed with
the environment in mind:
♦ A double-skinned roof, additional
insulation and high-speed truck doors keep
heat in the warehouse
♦ Radiant tube heating warms stored piles
of heavy steel coils, leaving them to heat
the rest of the facility
♦ A panel lining an exterior wall captures
Fisheries
Management
The Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources has partnered with Royal
Botanical Gardens to develop a
fisheries management plan for
Hamilton Harbour
Encompassing all areas of the harbour
watershed, the plan will describe physical
attributes critical to fish habitat, plus the
current state of fish communities, with the
goal of providing strategic direction to
fisheries resource planners for the long-term
sustainability of fish communities.
Due for completion by January 2006, the
project’s attracted numerous individuals and
groups actively involved in protecting local
fish resources – and workshops, public
meetings and club presentations are planned.
More info at www.rbg.ca

Pleasure craft in the harbour
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solar energy, which is pumped into the
building via a canvas plenum
♦ The sustainable and innovative floor uses
interlocking pavers to accommodate
settlement on the waterfront land – again,
a former dredge disposal site.
Natural Resources Canada rates the
building to consume 36.9% less energy
than a normal equivalent, plus 41% less
energy due to process improvements. The
company feels the building is so energy
efficient that it’s applied to the Canada
Green Building Council for ‘Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design’
certification.

Left to right – HPA engineering
manager Bill Fitzgerald, Steelcare
capital projects manager Bob Edwards
and port technologist Jonathan
Wetselaar
Not Just Commerce...
Back in 1938, the HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT
PLAN took account of Hamilton’s
recreational aspect
The then Harbour Commissioners
constructed a marine railway and dockyard
specifically for pleasure boaters and small
commercial craft at the foot of west harbour’s
James Street that today offers dockage for
around 250 pleasure craft and houses over 400
vessels in winter storage.
In 2003, however, the HPA announced a
major proposal for land surrounding the
harbour entrance at Burlington Canal – the
Fisherman’s Pier Development, that calls for a
new marina with over 400 slips, recreation
facilities, shops, restaurants and other amenities
to be developed with private partners.
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Steelcare’s internal
paving is designed to
accommodate settlement
3). Bitumar – again Canadian owned, it
specializes in asphalt conversion, blending
and distribution for the roofing and paving
industries and now has a 9.2-acre plant on
Pier 25’s North Gateway with terminal
access to ships via a pipeline, plus rail and
truck transport facilities.
Bitumar operates 24/7 and all handling
of liquid asphalt is carried out in an
enclosed environment.
FINALLY...
Hamilton Port Authority relies on a
strong staff and in recent years the
multiple port developments have come
under the aegis of the engineering
department, led by Bill Fitzgerald. His
team has maintained a clear focus on
environmental responsibility alongside
business viability.
That’s in tandem with efforts to attract
quality operations to the port, led by
myself and my team through our
OpPORTunity marketing campaign that
showcases Hamilton as a preferred
location, highlighting the port’s waterborne
transportation facilities, links with other
intermodal services and logistics providers.
Hamilton’s future is proudly linked to
the success of its commercial port and if
that future is green, it’s also planned and
sustainable.
More info at www.hamiltonport.ca
About The Author
Bob Matthews is Hamilton Port
Authority’s vice president of marketing
An environmental study was presented at
the end of last year and discussions are
underway with both provincial and federal
governments to secure the necessary
approvals, easements and rights.

Development overview