Phase I of the largest PCB dredging project ever undertaken began this past year on the Hudson River at Fort Edward. It went badly, with dredging completed in just over half of its planned area, and with discovery of a previously unknown, deeper layer of PCB-tainted sediments that threatens to extend the planned six-year project [...]
Dredging Corporation of India Ltd has announced the financial results for the quarter ended on 31-December-2009. The Net Sales was at Rs.181.21 crores (US$ 38.7 million) for quarter ended on 31-December-2009 against Rs.223.77 crores (US$ 47.7 million) for the quarter ended on 31-December-2008.
The Net Profit / (Loss) was at Rs.36.10 crores (US$ 7.7 million) for the quarter ended [...]
After years of politicking and paying of lip service to the issue of the dredging of the Lower River Niger, the Federal Government commencement of the dredging of the river is generating mixed reactions from operators and other inland water ways users.
The N34.8 billion project, kick started by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in September last [...]
Anyone weary of bad news about the economy would have felt a lot better Friday after hearing the Long Beach State of the Port speech. It was about creating thousands of new jobs, and investing many millions in the future.
Optimism is a bit scarce these days, but Richard Steinke, executive director of the Port of [...]
The US$360 million Saigon Premier Container Terminal, the most advanced of its kind in Ho Chi Minh City, was inaugurated on January 30 along with the phase-2 opening of the city’s North-South road axis.
Located along the western shore of the Soai Rap River on 23 hectares in the Hiep Phuoc Industrial Park, the SPCT is [...]
BHP Billiton today announced approval for US$1.93 billion of capital expenditure to underpin the further accelerated growth of its Western Australia Iron Ore business. This investment represents early expenditure for the company’s Rapid Growth Project 6. RGP6 is expected to increase installed capacity at the company’s Western Australia Iron Ore assets to 240 million tonnes per [...]
NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and Google have signed a cooperative research and development agreement outlining how they will work together to create sophisticated visualisations of scientific data to illustrate how our planet works.
“It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Here, we think NOAA’s billions of bits of data [...]
Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract, worth approximately €21 million, by Lundin Britain Limited for an augmentation pipeline at the Broom field in the UK North Sea. This field, which is located 320 kilometres North-East of Aberdeen, Scotland, is tied back to the Heather Alpha platform. The new augmentation pipeline will extend the [...]
Harbour sediments are very often contaminated. The contaminants may end in the harbour sediment by a number of routes, e.g. via industrial waste water, shipping, spillage during transhipment or via polluted water from rivers and streams. The contamination of dredged material is the result of current activities as well as poor environmental management in the [...]
MUMBAI — State-run Dredging Corp of India Ltd (DRDG.BO:) on Thursday reported a net profit of 361 million rupees on net sales of 1.81 billion rupees in Oct-Dec.
Year ago numbers were not immediately available.
