HUNDREDS of construction workers on the $43 billion Gorgon gas project will live on a luxury Norwegian cruise ship anchored off Barrow Island… Source: PerthNow, November 28, 2009;
As part of the project Port Baltic Iron and Steel Terminal has begun construction of 1st phase of the terminal in the commercial port of Ust-Luga, Leningrad region… Source: SteelGuru, November 28, 2009
American Marine Co. is waiting for permit approval to dredge Kíkíaola Harbor. Work could resume as soon as Monday… Source: Honolulu Advertiser, November 28, 2009;
China Merchant Holdings has virtually by-passed its local partner the Aitken Spence for the first terminal of the new Colombo South Harbour and has unilaterally enhanced its financial bid all round in recent days… Source: The Nation, November 29, 2009
FREEPORT — Containers of sediment soon will connect Freeport with a Civil War-era gunboat sunken 146 years ago in Galveston Bay… Source: The Facts, November 29, 2009;
Nearly 28 years after Congress authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to deepen the Delaware River’s main shipping channel, the only thing about the project that has deepened is the controversy… Read More: Delaware Online
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said the 5 million tonnes (mt) per year liquefied natural gas terminal at Dabhol has achieved mechanical completion and is likely to be commissioned in the fourth quarter… Source: DNA, November 27, 2009;
The House of Representatives Committee on Marine Transport has begun a probe into the alleged installation of substandard navigational aids at the River Niger by one of the leading contractors handling its dredging… Source: NEXT, November 27, 2009
The two Belgian dredge contractors which built the Palm Islands and other prestigious projects have still tens of millions of euros to invoices outstanding with Dubai World and its ailing subsidiaries in the project. It’s are DEME and Jan De Nul Dredging… Source: De Morgen, November 27, 2009;
Three-day tropical storm wipes out approximately 600,000 cubic yards… Source: Ocean City Today, november 27, 2009;
