Dredging on the Hudson River will take a break in 2010… Source:Post-Star,December 12,2009
Kolkata Port Trust has run into fresh trouble, with the Union ministry of finance seeking a detailed report of operations at the Kolkata and Haldia Dock complexes, to gauge whether it is viable to continue to extend dredging subsidy… Source: Business Standard, December 14, 2009;
HARVEY CEDARS – The 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week, estimated $25 million beachfill project is on target to be completed in March despite several setbacks due to inclement weather since work began about a month ago… Source: Press of Atlantic City, December 10, 2009
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to rebuild the coast of Plum Island with sand dredged from the mouth of the Merrimack River has hit and sidestepped every roadblock from funding to factional disagreements to eminent domain proceedings to piping plovers. Now, the project faces a new snag: no
The first and largest part of the R3,9-billion project to widen and deepen Durban’s harbour mouth is on track for completion in March 2010… Source: Engineering News, December 11, 2009
KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has awarded the contract for marine protection works at the Pakistan Deep Water Container Port to a Chinese company, at a cost of Rs12.8 billion… Source: Dawn, December 11, 2009;
According MEED, Successful firm to undertake dredging and reclamation work at port The Public Works Authority (Ashgal) received bids in early December for the contract to upgrade the fishing harbour at Ruwais in Qatar… Source: MEED, December 9, 2009;
KARACHI: The KPT project Pakistan Deep Water Container Port scheduled for completion in 2013 is expected to generate a capacity of 3.1 m TEUs, Nasreen Haque, chairperson KPT said… Source: Daily Times, December 10, 2009
ExxonMobil as operator has awarded a number of contracts for pipeline construction and other works on its Papua New Guinea (PNG) LNG Project, following the final investment decision on the project announced earlier this week… Source: Pipelines International, December 8 ,2009;
The disastrous coal ash spill that occurred a year ago at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee dumped a whopping 2.66 million pounds of 10 toxic pollutants into the nearby Emory and Clinch rivers — more than all the surface-water discharges from all U.S. power p
PORT SALERNO — Lined with marinas and restaurants, boatyards and fueling stations, the Manatee Pocket has long been a busy commercial hub for boating… Source: TC Palm, December 9, 2009;
The Palm Jumeirah is not sinking into the sea, contrary to speculation in recent days, a Nakheel executive says… Source: The National, December 9, 2009
THE prospect of another multi-billion-dollar gas plant being built in Darwin took a giant stride forward yesterday… Source: Northern Territory News, December 8, 2009
The last phase of the channel deepening at the Port of Portland is now under way – and it has been a marathon project… Source: Port Strategy, December 8, 2009;
