UP to 55 million cubic metres of dredge spoil will be dumped on seagrass beds in Gladstone harbour to allow the development of the LNG export industry, despite the risks to the region’s dugong population.
With Curtis Island, on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, already declared the site of planned LNG terminals [...]
US ports are finding that they have to come up with increasing amounts of money to keep pace with demands from shipping lines serving the Pacific route, or jeopardise partnerships with Chinese and other Asian investors.
Jacksonville needs more than US$1 billion to deepen its shipping channel and build a $200 million container terminal at Dames [...]
JOB DESCRIPTION: The work consists of maintenance dredging of Richmond Inner & Outer Harbor Channel of approximately 500,000 cubic yards of materials, to provide a project authorized depth, -38 feet plus 1 foot allowable paid over-depth for the Inner Harbor Channel and -45 feet plus 1 foot allowable paid over-depth for the Outer [...]
CHINA’s largest water transport project, Yangtze River Mouth’s deepwater channel’s phase three rectification, has passed the state inspection,dredging has been successfully done and the channel has been opened for trial operations, reports Xinhua.
The channel linking East China Sea to Shanghai’s Waigaoqiao Terminal is 12.5 metres deep and 92.2 kilometres long and widened to 350 400 [...]
After having established his group as the largest private port (Mundra Port and SEZ Ltd) on the west coast of India, Gautam Adani, chairman, Adani group, is on the verge of setting up a very large all-weather, deep-water port (possibly the largest private port) on the eastern coast of the country as well.
If all goes [...]
A further Echoscope® system sale to a major construction contractor has seen the introduction of our unique sonar technology to a port expansion project in northwest Spain.
Situated in Galicia and oriented to the Atlantic Ocean, Punta Langosteira in Coruña is exposed to the most extreme maritime conditions, which have been known to produce waves up [...]
The port of Philadelphia and ports of the Delaware River are at a crossroads, and the river’s shipping channel must be deepened for jobs and Pennsylvania’s future, five candidates seeking to be the state’s next governor said yesterday.
Speaking at a candidates’s forum, each pledged to get the 45-foot channel dredging completed, and funded. [...]
THE year 2010 will be a big year for Penang Port.The extension to its container wharf will be completed and the six new cranes built by ZPMC and delivered in December 2009 will commence service.As the Penang Port managing director Datuk Ahmad Ibnihajar puts it: “There will be new operational options including on wharf storage [...]
Karachi—Minister for Ports and Shipping, Senator Babar Khan Ghauri in presence of the Vice Minister for Transport, Peoples Republic of China, Xu Zuyuan, inaugurated the construction of marine protection and quay wall works of the Deep Water Container Port at Karachi Port on 30th March 2010.
The Minister highlighted that Pakistan is blessed to have long [...]
The Turkish government is going to support Bangladesh in dredging its rivers and in implementing the much-expected Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Phase-II project inside the existing hospital premises.
Outgoing Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Sakir Ozkan Torunlar said this when he paid a farewell call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office yesterday.
The ambassador further [...]
