The dredging of the EKT dock will see the refinery utilise two docks simultaneously once its main dock is repaired. “This would significantly reduce our demurrage costs,” Winston Watson, general manager of Petrojam, told the Business Observer yesterday.
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Why did the decision making process over the dredging of the Westerschelde go so terribly wrong that it has now soured relations between the Netherlands and Belgium? The Dutch parliament would like to know too and has summoned prime minister Balkenende to explain his role.
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Antwerp port authorities say the Dutch delay is costing [...]
PANAMA CITY – One hundred years after the first blocks of cement were placed in 1909 for construction of the Panama Canal, the interoceanic waterway through which 983,000 ships have sailed during a century of operations, a new set of locks is being built that will allow passage of the new, larger ships of the [...]
The Belgian government is refusing to pay the Netherlands €300m it had agreed to hand over in compensation for environmental damage caused by deepening the Westerschelde estuary, news agency ANP reports on Monday.
Belgium and the Netherlands are in the middle of a diplomatic row over the estuary, which separates the two countries and accesses Antwerp [...]
Last year, Mrs. Arroyo created the task force for the Mindanao River Basin project to oversee its development and rehabilitation particularly the dredging of Rio Grande de Mindanao River and Tamontaka River that overflow and cause flashfloods in Cotabato City and some towns in Maguindanao during rainy days.
President Arroyo also ordered the release of P243-million [...]
PREAH Sihanouk province customs officials prevented the export of several thousand tonnes of sand to Singapore in a recent raid, officials from the company transporting the material said Monday, adding, however, that it had obtained permission from the government to operate.
Pen Pinith, a supervisor at the Cambodia-based company Dany Trading, said company ships entered waters [...]
The volume of sand exported to Singapore from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in the first half of 2009 was equivalent to the total exports of the last ten years. Ironically, most of it is shipped under falsely backdated contracts.
The many channels of the Mekong river are filled with sand dredging barges. Though the area has long [...]
The Netherlands will meet its treaty obligations to the Flemish region of Belgium and dredge the sea-lane to the port of Antwerp, the Dutch prime minister confirmed on Friday.
The delay in dredging work in the Westerschelde, the main point of entry for the port of Antwerp, had angered the Flemish region of Belgium. Flemish prime [...]
The Port Klang Authority has awarded a tender to local dredging company Integrated Marine Works Sdn. Bhd. to carry out capital dredging works at the Pintu Gedung or the South Channel. The tender was awarded to IMW Sdn. Bhd. and entails a work specification of deepening the south entrance to Port Klang from the current [...]
The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe.
“The Delta is a kind of Bangladesh story,” says Dr Rick Tutwiler, director of the American University in Cairo’s Desert Development Centre. “You’ve got a massive population, overcrowding, a threat to all natural resources from the pressure of [...]
