{"id":193268,"date":"2025-12-20T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:52:11","slug":"exclusive-port-of-santos-dredging-begins-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193268\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Port of Santos dredging begins next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Santos Port Authority (APS) is gearing up for a maintenance dredging program on the navigation channel and berthing areas. According to APS, this is a seasonal campaign, carried out during periods of greater sediment deposition intensity.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brasil-768x508.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of APS<\/p>\n<p>The dredging project, scheduled to start on December 21 and continue until February 28, aims to maintain the depth of port water areas at 15 meters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDredging is an essential measure precisely to maintain the competitiveness of the port complex and the ideal conditions for navigation and berthing,\u201d said Anderson Pomini, APS President. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time as we maintain the current depth, we are already deepening the channel up to 16 meters with rock removal works.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dredgingtoday.com\/advertising\/2025-offer-25-off-on-all-advertising\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2184\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DredgingToday-2025-advertising-offer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100533\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Port of Santos is situated in an estuary that receives a significant volume of sediment, which can cause silting and reduce the depth of the channel, mainly due to rainfall \u2013 especially summer storms, and intense oceanographic events such as storm surges. <\/p>\n<p>For these reasons, maintenance dredging is essential to ensure the efficiency of port operations, Pomini concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Santos Port Authority (APS) is gearing up for a maintenance dredging program on the navigation channel and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-193268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}