The state Board of Public Works approved Wednesday a 50-year lease that will allow a private company to manage operations at the port of Baltimore. Officials say the deal will generate at least $1.3 billion and 5,700 new jobs… Source:baltimoresun.com,December 17,2009;
Lean times lie ahead for companies on the hunt for maintenance dredging work, with the real effect of the economic downturn not hitting their balance sheets until next year and beyond… Source: Port Strategy, December 18, 2009;
GREEN BAY, Wis. — A federal judge in Green Bay has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to make 20 companies and governmental units share in the massive costs of cleaning up the lower Fox River… Source: Associated Press, December 17, 2009
Hauraki Gulf tribes and environmental groups are unhappy about a plan to dump dredged spoil on the continental shelf near Great Barrier Island… Source: New Zealand Herald, December 18, 2009
The consequences of failure to address maintenance dredging issues effectively is probably being felt nowhere more severely than in America’s Great Lakes… Source: Port Strategy, December 17, 2009
Almost half of the funds for Pakistan will be spent on irrigation and water infrastructure projects, report states… Source: USAID;
TAIPEI, Taiwan — As the useful lives of southern reservoirs are threatened by the accumulation of typhoon-induced silt deposits, the Water Resource Agency (WRA) and related officials have put their heads together to find the best method for excavating sediment from the dams, and in turn provide sust
STX Group, the nation’s 19th-largest conglomerate, said Tuesday it would turn its shipbuilding affiliates in China into a holding company-led system to streamline its Chinese business… Source:koreatimes,December 15,2009
Plans for a $190 million Miami-Dade Water and Sewer project are washed up after officials decided they couldn’t build the “utility tunnel” in time for the Port of Miami dredging project they said earlier this month necessitated it… Source:miamitodaynews,December 17,2009;
THE State Government looks to have given the nod for funding of the first stage of the $100 million-plus Townsville Marine Precinct Project at the mouth of Ross River… Source:townsvillebulletin,December 16,2009;
The construction of the $4 billion Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal (WICET) at Gladstone has moved a step closer to becoming a reality, with the Queensland Government signing a mandate that gives the green light to the project… Source: The Courier Mail, December 15, 2009
Surveys underway in Tuas View Extension, which looks set to become next big port development… Source: The Business Times, December 16, 2009;
Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC) has announced the overall completion of the Channel Deepening Project – ahead of schedule and at least $200 million under budget… Source: Logistics ,December 16, 2009;
Engineering consultancy DHV has won the contract to improve the navigability on 250 kilometers of the Mekong river in Vietnam… Source: New Civil Engineer, December 16, 2009
