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Dredging off Faro, "the first in 27 years"

FaroDocksNewMarinaSmallPortugal’s harbour authority, Docapesca, finally has launched a public tender for dredging work at Faro docks at a target price of €100,000.

The dredging, the first in 27 years, will see 16000m3 of silt removed in an effort to restore the dock area in preparation for the refurbishment of the floating piers used by fishermen.

The dredging also will allow more vessels to access the fuel station.

The notice has been published in Diário da República and covers an area of 1.75 hectares.

Docapesca stated, highlighting the fact that there has been no dredging at the site for nearly three decades, that, "This intervention is essential for the restoration of operating conditions in the interior of the Faro dock and is part of a larger project.”

The chosen company will have two months within which to do the work.

Further to the east in the Ria Formosa, the dredger that sank near the island of Armona yet may be refloated as a new salvage operation is being planned for September .

Engaged in urgent dredging activity, the massive 400-tonne vessel capsized, leaving the crew floundering.

The Maritime Authority gave the owner two days to remove the obstacle to shipping but nothing has happened since an aborted mission to refloat the vessel in January.

The hull broke up in the springtime storms and the expectation is that new flotation balloons from China will give sufficient lift to get the hulk off the seabed.

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+2 #3 Peter Booker 2018-08-17 08:52
"Just one event in 19 years of war between us and our allies Portugal (and their cousins, Spain)" Historyman makes another strange comment. Yes, England and Spain were at war 1585 - 1604; at that time, Portugal was a part of Spain, and her actions were similar to those of Scotland in support of the united monarchy in Great Britain after 1707.

What about Drake´s raids on Portugal? What about Grenville and the Revenge? Lastly, why should ships have been sunk in the Essex raid of 1596? In any case, the English came ashore at Farrobilhas, and not at Faro itself.

Let Historyman explain his comment.
0 #2 Darcy 2018-08-17 08:27
[quote name="Historyman"]When us Ingles knocked Faro about back in 1596 as payback for our 'erstwhile' Portuguese allies attempting to attack us earlier in the Armada - surely ships got sunk then?


Yes... With nonsense such as above, the ingles will not be missed within the European community, post March 2019.
-1 #1 Historyman 2018-08-16 18:22
This sunk dredger is a recent ship wreck. Has any marine archaeologists had the time to survey for much older vessels remains? When us Ingles knocked Faro about back in 1596 as payback for our 'erstwhile' Portuguese allies attempting to attack us earlier in the Armada - surely ships got sunk then? Just one event in 19 years of war between us and our allies Portugal (and their cousins, Spain)

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