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
The dredging of Melbourne’s shipping channels will continue for another six months and return every five years despite the controversial project being declared complete… Source: Herald Sun, November 25, 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;
THE controversial dredging of Port Phillip Bay is complete, at a cost of $969 million… Source: Herald Sun, November 25, 2009
The removal of underwater mines by exploding them starts in the Finnish Gulf along the route of the North Stream gas pipeline… Source: RZD-Partner, November 23, 2009
Awka — Alhaji Ibrahim Bio, Minister of Federal Ministry of Transport on Sunday in Onitsha commended the quality of work being done at the dredging of Lower River Niger… Source:All Africa, November 24, 2009;
Crews on contract with the Environmental Protection Agency have pulled about 85,000 tons of heavy metal-laced sediment from Keswick Lake. A hydraulic dredge is set to keep working until Dec. 12… Source: Redding, November 22, 2009
The harbor dredging project is more than 90 percent complete and is expected to be concluded ahead of schedule, according to Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, who yesterday commended Boskalis International, which is carrying out the work… Source: The Nassau Guardian, November 23, 2009;
Costs to deepen the Main Channel and other waterways at the Port of Los Angeles soared to $298 million Thursday night, when the harbor commission approved a plan that calls for dumping some of the dredged dirt at three new disposal sites… Source: Daily Breeze, November 20, 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
