A consortium of Spain’s FCC, Mexico’s ICA and Costa Rica’s Meco has won the final Panama Canal dry-excavation contract with a US$ 267.8 million bid. The consortium beat Belgium’s Jan de Nul, Brazil’s Oderbrecht and the… Source: International Construction, December 30, 2009 [mappress]
Delaware appears increasingly anxious to churn out an approval for a Delaware River main channel deepening, under terms that would salvage its pride and protect states’ rights to have a say on such projects… Source: Courier Post, December 26, 2009 [mappress]
HUE — The dredging of Hue’s Phat Lat Canal, which has been blocked for years by debris, will help improve the flow of An Cuu and Nhu Y rivers… Source: VNS, December 30, 2009;
The Maryland Port Administration has ceased dumping sediment dredged from Baltimore’s harbor at Hart-Miller Island… Source: Baltimore Business Journal, December 29, 2009; [mappress]
In the past dipper dredges have often been cobbled together with machinery designed to work in a terrestrial environment. When working in a marine environment their useful life is severely limited by the saltwater environs. Now the Netherlandss Yard De Donge… Source: MarineLink, December 29, 2009 [m
The Gloucester County Improvement Authority is planning another Delaware River port just three miles from the newly created Port of Paulsboro, where major construction has not yet begun… Source:nj.com,December 29,2009; [mappress]
Work is going ahead to expand the Russian Black Sea port of Sochi… Source:worldnews,December 29,2009; [mappress]
The central government seems to be in no hurry when it comes to capacity addition in the ports sector for the current five year plan even as the top offices have been pushing for more pro-active action in roads and highways and power… Source:indianexpress,December,30,2009; [mappress]
NEW ORLEANS — With the recession showing signs of ebbing, Gulf of Mexico ports hope hundreds of millions of dollars in expansion projects proposed before the downturn will help them capture more trade as the world economy recovers… Source:latimes,December 29,2009 [mappress]
The Kribi Deep Sea Port construction project is getting into its final phase… Source:crtv,December 29,2009 [mappress]
Marine engineers have begun a £1 million clean-up operation at a flood-hit port blocked by thousands of tonnes of debris… Source: UKPA, December 30, 2009; [mappress]
Marina waste will be dumped on the continental shelf near Great Barrier Island in a trial given the go-ahead by Maritime New Zealand… Source: The New Zealand Herald, December 28, 2009; [mappress]
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is mulling inviting global bids for appointment of a contractor to undertake the huge pending dredging work, as the selection of the consultant for preparing the tender document and sorting… Source: InfraNews, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended a ceremony December 27 to begin construction on a waterway passage to the Hau River for heavyweight vessels in the Mekong Delta’s Province of Tra Vinh… Source: Saigon Daily, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
