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Water wasteage
Nearly all the major ports in the world have at some time required new dredging works - known as capital dredging - to enlarge and deepen access channels, provide turning basins and achieve appropriate water depths along waterside facilities. Many of these channels have later required maintenance dredging, i.e. the removal of sediments which have accumulated in the bottom of the dredged channel, to ensure that they continue to provide adequate dimensions for the large vessels engaged in domestic and international commerce.
Dredging for construction, reclamation and miningDredging is an important way of providing sands and gravels for construction and reclamation projects. In the last two decades, the demand, and the associated extraction rates, for such
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