According to MEED (Middle East Business Intelligence) Bahrain’s local real estate developer Manara Developments has awarded US-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company an estimated BD10m ($26m) contract… Source: MEED, November 24, 2009 / Gulf Daily News, June 29, 2oo9
Wrightsville Beach could get sand in its stocking this Christmas… Source: Lumina News, November 25, 2009
A private investment group led by Highstar Capital has agreed to invest as much as $1.3 billion to expand the Port of Baltimore as ports in the eastern U.S. push to make changes needed to serve a new generation of supersize cargo vessels… Source: The Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2009
Subtech has once again made history when they removed the last section of the sub-aqueous tunnel from beneath the Durban harbour mouth. This is the first time that a sub-aqueous tunnel has been removed in its entirety… Source: Subtech
WASHINGTON — Manson Construction Co., Seattle, won a $3,751,000 federal contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Ga., for maintenance dredging. Place of performance will be at Charleston Entrance Channel, Charleston county, S.C… Source: Targeted News Service, November 24, 2009
Work on the deepening of Liepaja Port has begun, LETA was informed by the Liepaja Special Economic Zone’s public relations specialist Liga Ratniece-Kadege. The work is being carried out by Belgian company Dredging International N.V… Source: Baltic Zone, November 25, 2009;
Shipbuilder IHC Merwede BV closes in mid March 2010 the slope of the former Merwede Shipyard in Rivierdijk Hardinxveld-Giessendam indefinitely… Source: Het Kompas, November 24, 2009
Banks in Europe are breathing easy after it was confirmed much of the continent has emerged from recession… Source: Associated Press, November, 2009;
Following a hostile takeover, Smit’s salvage business will remain in the group for three years. But what then?… Source: Fairplay, November 19, 2009
Kandla Port Trust is busy exploring ways to expedite the setting up of a Special Economic Zone over 5,000 hectares identified for the purpose… Source: The hindu Business Line, November 23, 2009
DUBAI – Abu Dhabi’s National Marine Dredging Co or NMDC, said Monday it won a 1.5 billion U.A.E. dirham ($408.7 million) contract to build a 63.5-kilometer canal in the U.A.E.’s largest emirate… Source: Maktoob, November 23, 2009;
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., Inc., Oak Brook, Ill., was awarded on Nov. 18, 2009, a $5,559,750 firm-fixed-price contract for the maintenance dredging, Wilmington Harbor Outer Ocean Bar, Brunswick County, North Carolina… Source: Defpro, November 23, 2009;
Marshfield – Boats bottoming out and tilting over toward their heaviest side in Green Harbor during low tide… Source: Marshfield, November 19, 2009
A joint venture of VolkerStevin Marine and Westminster Dredging has been named as preferred contractor for the design and construction of the Siadar Wave Energy Project on the Isle of Lewis… Source: Construction News, November 20, 2009;
