Despite reservations expressed by some of the communities and people doing business at the Niger River over the slow performance of the companies dredging the river, Transport Minister, Alhaji Ibrahim Isa Bio has said that the dredging work is going on smoothly and according to specification. [mappr
Twenty-three miles may not seem like much, but for a project to line a section of the All American Canal that snakes through the sand dunes west of Yuma, it’s meant 20 years in the making, legal challenges and the expenditure of $285 million. Source:yumasun,January 2,2010; [mappress]
The next round of negotiations on the Colombo Port Expansion Project is scheduled for this Wednesday between the China Holdings Merchant International (CHMI) and Aitken Spence (AS) Shipping Limited consortium and the Cabinet Appointed Negotiating Committee (CANC). Source:sundaytimes,January 3,2010;
Propelling port expansion plans further, the Shipping Ministry will award a Rs 1,407-crore contract for building a container terminal at Ennore and another contract for a project at Vizag next week… Source:business-standard,December 30,2009; [mappress]
Peru’s private investment promotion agency ProInversión has launched a tender to build and operate the new Yurimaguas-Nueva Reforma river port in Loreto region… Source: BN Americas, December 30, 2009; [mappress]
A consortium of Spain’s FCC, Mexico’s ICA and Costa Rica’s Meco has won the final Panama Canal dry-excavation contract with a US$ 267.8 million bid. The consortium beat Belgium’s Jan de Nul, Brazil’s Oderbrecht and the… Source: International Construction, December 30, 2009 [mappress]
Work is going ahead to expand the Russian Black Sea port of Sochi… Source:worldnews,December 29,2009; [mappress]
The Kribi Deep Sea Port construction project is getting into its final phase… Source:crtv,December 29,2009 [mappress]
Marine engineers have begun a £1 million clean-up operation at a flood-hit port blocked by thousands of tonnes of debris… Source: UKPA, December 30, 2009; [mappress]
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is mulling inviting global bids for appointment of a contractor to undertake the huge pending dredging work, as the selection of the consultant for preparing the tender document and sorting… Source: InfraNews, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended a ceremony December 27 to begin construction on a waterway passage to the Hau River for heavyweight vessels in the Mekong Delta’s Province of Tra Vinh… Source: Saigon Daily, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
Nord Stream has received its final permit from Germany for the construction of a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea to directly link Russia with western Europe. Critics are voicing environmental concerns… Source: Deutsche Welle, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
Kochi — Shipping Secretary K Mohandas today said the proposed International Container Transshipment Terminal at Vallarpadam and LNG terminal at Puthuvypeen are expected to be commissioned by March 2010 and January 2011 respectively… Source: Business Line, December 26, 2009 [mappress]
The China Harbor Engineering Co Ltd, renowned for its role in building ports in China and in overseas infrastructure projects, has won its first award from a foreign government for environmental protection… Source: Shanghai Daily, December 26, 2009
