Demerara River dredging begins in June as port-access work clears the calendar

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Demerara River dredging is scheduled to begin in June, Demerara Waves reported Wednesday, clearing the path on one of Guyana’s most consequential infrastructure files — the maintained navigability of the river that handles the majority of the country’s port traffic and a growing share of the offshore-sector logistics chain.

The river’s channel has been a chronic constraint. Larger vessels servicing both the commercial port and the offshore supply industry have had to time their movements to tides and accept draft restrictions that increase logistics costs across the import chain. The Bharrat Jagdeo Demerara River Bridge — the new high-span structure opened earlier this year — was designed in part to remove one set of physical constraints; dredging addresses the other.

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Demerara River dredging begins in June as port-access work clears the calendar