The Bangladesh’s leading shipyards recently have been awarded contracts for the construction of six dredgers. Details: – Karnaphuli Ship Builders Limited (KSBL) – 3 dredgers, – Ananda Shipyard and Slipways Limited – 2 dredgers, – Western Marine – 1 dredger. Also, the officials have decided to procure 10 more dredgers for capital dredging projects on [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Sims Metal Management, located at the Port of Redwood City, Calif., to comply with federal Clean Water Act laws following inspections that found evidence of unlawful discharges of PCBs, mercury, lead, copper and zinc into San Francisco Bay. The South Bay facility is home to one of the [...]
IHC Merwede has announced that it has recently secured orders for advanced vessels and equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to the value of €200million. The latest agreements confirmed by IHC Merwede include: a new pipelaying vessel for Subsea 7; an engineering and components package for the build of a trailing suction [...]
As the Thai capital is facing flooding of crisis proportions, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday ordered concerned agencies to u… (mcot) Source: mcot, November 9, 2011
Flood prevention measures have been put up to protect Bangkok, Thailand‘s capital from possible floods… By Marhgil Macuha (batangastoday) Source: batangastoday, October 11, 2011;
The government cares and will never neglect you. President Benigno S. Aquino III assured this when he inspected Tarlac, Pampanga, and … By GENALYN D. KABILING and FRANCO G. REGALA (mb) Source: mb, October 6, 2011;
BL reported that the Orissa High Court has ordered Kolkata Port Trust to maintain status quo on its expansion mode till the disposal of the… (steelguru) Source: steelguru, October 5, 2011;
Van Oord has been awarded two dredging projects in the port of Suape, Brazil. Together the two contracts are worth more than EUR 165 million. The client is Suape Complexo Industrial Portuario Governador Eraldo Gueiros, the port authority for the State of Pernambuco. Work on the two projects is scheduled to begin in late 2011. [...]
Prime Minster Hun Sen yesterday ordered a review of marine dredging operations, warning the practice must be strictly monitored or it could… (phnompenhpost) Source: phnompenhpost, July 12, 2011;
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has placed an order with Samsung for the construction of a power cable laying vessel. The vessel with an overall length of 100 meters and with a cable loading capacity of 5,000 ton is expected to be completed in the second half of 2012. Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has also been [...]
