The Federal Executive Council (FEC) last week approved the award of N8.3 billion contract for the land reclamation project at Abam-Nnuju water front in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State. Briefing newsmen after FEC meeting, Information Minister Labaran Maku, said the council also approved
The Township Committee finally is moving ahead to hire a contractor to deepen the Shadow Lake by removing contaminated sediment from it. According to app.com, the Committee on Monday agreed to advertise for bids to dredge the lake and transport the silt to a disposal site in Sayreville. The dredging
The Berkshire Eagle reports that the work on one of the most visible PCB cleanups in the city since the first two miles of the Housatonic River is set to begin next week. General Electric Co.’s contractor, Sevenson Environmental Services, will begin staging Silver Lake next week for a two-year remed
The Mediterranean Shipping Company’s vessel MSC Sola is expected to arrive off Durban in the early hours of Wednesday, according to the IOL News. This vessel weighs 131,771 tons and has the length of three-and-a-half rugby fields. Fully loaded it is capable of carrying 11,660 standard containers. IO
Heavy Load Maldives has claimed that Thilafushi Corporation Limited (TLC) owed MVR26 million for land reclamation work done by the company in Thilafushi, according to haveeru.com. “We obtained the fuel when TCL gave us a guarantee of MVR5 million. But we have been hindered by the unpaid MVR26 millio
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been briefed by the National Water Resources and Flood Policy Committee on the progress in various flood prevention projects while assuring that the deadlines will be met. Prime Minister Yingluck said her recent meeting with the National Water Resources and Flo
The Hussain Sagar lake cleaning and catchment area improvement project began four years ago, but so far only 60% work has been completed, The Times of India reports. Though the state government fixed a fresh deadline (March 2013) to complete the project, the authority is likely to miss this deadline
According to tempointeractive.com, the Jakarta Emergency Dredging Initiative will be applied to 13 rivers in Jakarta starting this October. The project will be undertaken by the Jakarta administration in collaboration with the Ciliwung-Cisadane Center and Cipta Karya. The tender process was complete
Laser technology specialist Measurement Devices US, LLC (MDL) has introduced the industry’s first custom designed land and marine survey vessel. Following the success of their Dynascan mobile mapping system and the increasing market demand for a combined multi-beam sonar and LiDAR data collection sy
According to positivenewsmedia.com, payments for projects covered by the Cebu City Government’s calamity fund last year might be delayed because the City Council decided “to lay on the table” a resolution seeking to charge P98,757,187.69 to the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council’s
According to goerie.com, a Mandeville company has received a $27.8 million flood control contract for about four years of work for the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans. The Pentagon said in a news release that the contract went to B&K Construction Co., LLC. The same news release says Weeks Mar
As Macauhub reports, a lack of cranes, tractors, tugs and other port equipment is affecting the productivity and efficiency of the ports of Beira and Nacala in Mozambique. The local newspaper said that despite this, the two ports were gradually positioning themselves as regional ports and attracting
According to Port Technology, residents have called on the Thai government to postpone studies into the expansion of Laem Chabang Port amid growing environmental concerns. The news follows the proposal put forward by the Transport Ministry to invest as much as 120-billion-baht to further expand the
Last month, the Harbors Committee discussed maintenance plans for Old and New Harbors, on everything from dredging to beautifications, launch ramps and policy documents. Committee member Bob Littlefield provided updates on Old Harbor dredging, saying that dredging of the harbor is almost complete, w
