On the morning of May 12, the 2018 construction of the Yangtze River Waterway
Dredging and Maintenance Project (the dredging and maintenance of the 12.5m
deepwater waterway below Nantong (Tianshen Port) was held in Nanjing. Yangtze
River Waterway Bureau Dredging and Maintenance Office, Audit Office, Navigational
Standards Office, Yangtze River Waterway Regulation Center, Archives Center, Yangtze
River Nanjing Waterway Bureau and Yangtze River Waterway Planning and Design
Institute, China Communications Wuhan Harbor Engineering Design and Research
Institute Co., Ltd., Yangtze River Nanjing Waterway Engineering Bureau, Representatives
of Nanjing Gongzheng Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd. and other units attended
the meeting.
At the meeting, the design unit elaborated the design idea of the project. The construction
unit introduced the start-up situation of the maintenance project and the key points of the
nextstep project management work. The supervision unit reported the preparation work,
requirements and the next stage of the supervision work. Other participants put forward
clear requirements on the safety, quality, progress, cost, environmental protection,
archives of the dredging maintenance project.
Gao Kaichun, Director of Dredging and Conservation Office of Yangtze River Waterway
Bureau, requested the participating parties to change work ideas and work functions
from the perspectives of the purpose, significance, and value of the market-oriented reform
of dredging maintenance projects by using silt curtains, and learned from the dynamic management, process
control, and other aspects of dredging in the deepwater channels of the Yangtze River,
management mechanism and experience, he required the people to carry out a standardized,
efficient and accurate manner, and comprehensively and systematically work, and implement
the major measures for the market-oriented reform of the dredging and maintenance of the
Yangtze River fairway.
It is reported that the convening of the meeting was marked the official start of the marketization
of the maintenance dredging of the fairway in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.