New Delhi: The government targets to allot 17 port development projects to private players under its ambitious National Maritime Development Programme, which envisages increasing the capacity of the major ports by 410 million tonne per annum, with an investment of Rs 62,231 crore… Source: Financial
Construction has begun of a new ‘heavy lift’ inland port costing about €32m at Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal, the world’s busiest manmade waterway, linking the Baltic and the North Sea… Source: Maritime Journal, December 9, 2009
MANAMA: As a major part of its expansion plan, Arab Shipbuilding Repair Yard (Asry) has awarded a design and build contract for the construction of a 1,380-metre quay wall to Bahrain-based Nass Contracting. The $80 million contract… Source: Gulf Daily News, December 9, 2009;
SAUDI ARABIA – The proposed development of 100 plus square kilometres to the north of Jazan City, along a Red Sea waterfront stretching 12 kilometres has reportedly commenced despite the current economic downturn. Loans from the Saudi Industrial Development Fund… Source:Handy Shipping Guide, Decembe
U.S. Naval Station Mayport Channel The work includes dredging approximately 725 thousand cubic yards of material from the Entrance Channel… Source: U.S. Army, December 8, 2009;
LEE COUNTY — It looks like the beach will get wider at Fort Myers Beach, but only part of it. Lee County commissioners are poised to abandon a 4.6-mile, $10.5 million… Source: Naples Daily News, December 7, 2009
The dredger that Councillor Bob Spooner has dubbed Captain Cobourg has begun to pay for itself, he announced at last week’s council meeting… Source:North Umberland Today, December 7, 2009
The expansion of the Panama Canal has prompted Cuba to fund the expansion and modernisation of its three main ports in collaboration with China and Venezuela… Source: Port Strategy, December 8, 2009;
The National Human Rights Commission will ask Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to scrap a business proposal that would see the dredging of a large network of waterways in Phang Nga… Source: The Nation, December 8, 2009
AMSTERDAM – A majority of shareholders in Royal Boskalis Westminster NV Monday gave the green light for a share issue, which the Dutch dredging company will use to partly finance the takeover of Smit Internationale NV… Source: Morning Star, December 7, 2009
At least five international companies compete to build $2.5bn man-made island… Source: MEED, December 6, 2009;
Only four dredgers out of 28 in the country are fit for operations. The acting chief engineer of the Directorate of Dredgers even does not know the location and condition of the remaining 24 dredgers… Source: The Daily Star, December 7, 2009;
Richard Henry’s sojourns in West Asia had always been jinxed. He went to Abu Dhabi in 1980 to work as a deckhand on a dredger, but returned four years later when the Emirate did some belt-tightening to cope with falling oil revenues… Source: DNA, December 6, 2009;
PLUM ISLAND — A contract for the Plum Island-Salisbury beach replenishment project could be awarded next week, if the low bidder for the job satisfies questions from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… Source: Newbury Port News, December 5, 2009
