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South Central Asia
Posted: over 14 years ago

Jakarta set to use WB loan to dredge dam and canals

The city’s Public Works Agency (PU) plans to use the first disbursement of a World Bank loan to dred...

Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

FinMin (India) seeks report on dredging subsidy for Kolkata, Haldia ports

Kolkata Port Trust has run into fresh trouble, with the Union ministry of finance seeking a detailed...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Karachi Port Trust awards Rs12.8bn contract to CHEC (China)

KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has awarded the contract for marine protection works at the Pa...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Pakistan Deep Water Container Port scheduled to be completed by 2013

KARACHI: The KPT project Pakistan Deep Water Container Port scheduled for completion in 2013 is expe...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

India: Private players to get 17 ports for development

New Delhi: The government targets to allot 17 port development projects to private players under its...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Special Coverage: Arabian dreams gone sour

Richard Henry’s sojourns in West Asia had always been jinxed. He went to Abu Dhabi in 1980 to ...

Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Asian carriers think Santos PAC (Brazil) is a dredging booster

Rio de Janeiro: Asia’s top container carriers – and possibly a Chinese dredging company – coul...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

China launches 13.000 cbm Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger

Chang Jing 6, one of the country’s largest trailing suction hopper dredgers, is to be launched...

Categories:
  • Vessels
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Bangladesh will seek $10 billion in Copenhagen to fight climate changes

Bangladesh will seek Tk 70,000 crore from the international community at the Copenhagen conference t...

Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Indian Government will buy two dredgers and a Watermaster for the river Kosi

The river Kosi, known as shok (sorrow) of Bihar, is also infamous for its heavy silt deposits, one o...

Categories:
  • Equipment
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

DP World projects in India not affected by financial turmoil

The financial turmoil in Dubai is not going to affect the DP World projects in India, including the ...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Macau (China) to reclaim 360 hectares of land from the sea

HONG KONG – CHINA has approved plans by Macau to reclaim an area of land equivalent to 500 foo...

Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

300 million cubic meters of soil needed to build islands in Shandong province (China)

Shandong province in east China plans to create man-made islands at Longkou Bay, Longkou… Sour...

Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Jakarta (Indonesia) is still waiting on funds to clear up heavily-clogged rivers

The Jakarta administration is waiting for a World Bank loan channeled by the Finance Ministry before...

Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

India: DP World’s port bids may come under scanner

After international construction and development major Dubai World failing to repay its huge pile of...

Categories:
  • Business & Finance
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

China rescues Sri Lanka’s new Colombo South Harbour

China Merchant Holdings has virtually by-passed its local partner the Aitken Spence for the first te...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

Dabhol LNG terminal (India) commissioning waits for completion of dredging works

New Delhi: The government on Thursday said the 5 million tonnes (mt) per year liquefied natural gas ...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: over 14 years ago
Posted: over 14 years ago

India: DCI completes dredging at Mormugao port, contracts for 2010 and 2011 already signed

The quantity dredged is about 4 million cubic metres and the contract value is about Rs.29.7 crores&...

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  • Business & Finance
Posted: over 14 years ago