The public private partnership appraisal committee has given its nod for the proposed Rs 3,686 crore mega container terminal at Chennai port. The port trust is likely to award the project by March this year. [mappress] Source:business-standard,January 12, 2010;
Mumbai: A major portion of the Arabian Sea has been reclaimed near Badhwar Park in south Mumbai’s Backbay Reclamation — the stretch which came into focus as the landing spot for Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab and his aides on the night of November 26, 2008. [mappress] Source:dna, January 12,2010;
Illegal activities: Enforcement officers inspecting the barge that was detained off the coast of Penggerang on Saturday. PENGGERANG: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has detained a tugboat and barge for allegedly dumping dredging silt at an unauthorised area here. [mappress] Source: Star, J
INDIALANTIC — Hurricane Wilma, tropical storms Fay and Noel, and a few Nor’easters stole the sand that lures tourists here. [mappress] Source: floridatoday,January 10,2010;
Decision follows Corps construction contract for channel extension Port Corpus Christi decided to proceed with the design of a multi-purpose dock and terminal project to be constructed on the port’s 1,000-acre site at La Quinta. [mappress] Source:joc,January 8,2010;
MUCK REMOVAL: The unwanted sediment is called many names: goo, ooze, muck, slurry. [mappress] Source: tcpalm,January 9,2010;
The Corps, in Buffalo, N.Y., applied for a water quality certification for the project, which includes the Maumee River and lake approach channel. [mappress] Source: The Press, January 7, 2010;
Wrightsville Beach is still hoping that its beaches might be nourished before Masonboro Island’s as Great Lakes Dredging begins phasing in equipment Dredge and Dock for stage one, of a two-stage program to nourish the barrier island beaches. Source: Lumina News, January 7, 2010;
With soaring dredging prospects, more and more shipping companies and port operators are taking the dredging route in India to boost their revenues. Source: Maritime Professional, January 4, 2010
Listed Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has lodged resource consent applications to deepen its navigation channel for larger vessels, at a cost of up to $100 million; a process Port Otago hopes to follow during the next few months. [mappress] Source: Otago Daily Times, January 8, 2010;
NAIROBI — China will finance the building of a second port in Kenya, a transport corridor and the upgrading of a railroad linking Kenya’s Mombasa port and the Ugandan capital, a statement said Wednesday. Source: AFP, January 6, 2009
SYDNEY — The marine group promoting the dredging of the harbour and construction of a container terminal has scheduled a news conference for Thursday to announce what the Sydney Ports Corp. is calling a unique development. [mappress] Source: capebretonpost,January 6,2010
VILLAGERS in Koh Kong province say they continue to suffer from large-scale sand-dredging operations in coastal estuaries, which they add have reduced fish catches and threatened the livelihoods of thousands of local fishermen. [mappress] Source: The Phnom Phen Post, January 6, 2010
Nearly five years after regional water-pollution cops announced a landmark order to clean toxic muck in San Diego Bay, they’re back with a plan that would remove just 16 percent of the sediment targeted initially. [mappress] Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 6, 2009
