Engineering consultancy DHV has won the contract to improve the navigability on 250 kilometers of the Mekong river in Vietnam… Source: New Civil Engineer, December 16, 2009
HOUSTON, Dec. 15, 2009 – Orion Marine Group, Inc., a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, today announced a contract award of approximately $20 million… Source: CNN Money, December 15, 2009
The chief executive officer of the Belledune Port Authority is concerned the proposed NB Power deal with Hydro-Québec could jeopardize a multimillion-dollar expansion of the northern port… Source: CBC News, December 14, 2009;
Google and a consortium of five telecommunication firms have joined together in a $400 million project to connect southeast Asia with the fastest undersea fiber-optic pipe in the world. The project is called Southeast Asia Japan Cable… Source: The Business Insider, December 14, 2009;
An ever-increasing flow of black sand appearing on the shores of the Kaipara Harbour could spell the end of a multi-million dollar marine turbine power project for Crest Energy, according to a Kaipara beach historian… Source:stuff.co.nz,December 14,2009;
DREDGING work on the second Tyne Tunnel is set to be finished this week… Source: The Shields Gazette, December 14, 2009;
The City of Burnaby got the go ahead Thursday to dredge Burnaby Lake, home to the endangered Western painted turtle… Source: Burnaby Now, December 12, 2009;
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;
