The endless saga of incompetence regarding the Cirkewwa terminal is continuing, said the Labour Party spokesperson for Infrastructure and Public Works, Charles Buhagiar in a statement yesterday. [mappress] Source:independent,February 28,2010;
The massive expansion of a north-east town’s harbour is well under way. [mappress] Source:pressandjournal,February 28,2010;
Work is to be “paused” on public facilities in the €300 million Greystones Harbour redevelopment project in north Co Wicklow, its backers have confirmed. [mappress] Source: Irish Times, February 23, 2010;
Local German authorities have completed the deepening of a 23.7km stretch of the northern Peene River to allow bigger ships to reach Wolgast. [mappress] Source: Maritime Journal, February 18, 2010;
ONE of the largest dredging operations the world has ever seen will begin in the Thames Estuary on Monday, March 8. [mappress] Source: Yellow Advertiser, February 18, 2010
IT’S showtime at last after the longest, most hyped build-up in Essex industrial history. Eleven years have rolled by since plans for a giant new container port on the Essex shore of the Thames Estuary were first announced… [mappress] Source: Echo, February 16, 2010
The £6.4m Welsh Assembly Government-funded scheme is set to see the construction of a new rock breakwater above low tide level, rock groynes, and rock revetment to protect properties in the town. [mappress] Source: Cumbrian News, February 10, 2010;
Local scientists are claiming that the Marine Facade project and other construction on reclaimed land is a threat to the ecological situation in the Neva Bay. [mappress] Source: The St. Petersburg Times, February 9, 2010
Preliminary construction work on a new commercial seaport south of Baku will begin in April, now that the blueprint has been completed. mappress] Source: News.az, February 8, 2010
Pike anglers are warning that Broads Authority plans to dredge Heigham Sound on the Upper Thurne could cause an ecological “catastrophe” by triggering a bloom of killer algae. [mappress] Source: Lowestoft Journal, February 5, 2010
HAYLE’S Harbour Management Ltd (HHML) has halted its winter dredging operation after the mechanical digger failed to make any real progress clearing the silted-up channel. [mappress] Source: This is Cornwall, February 3, 2010
A NEW outer harbour which will extend tidal access times into Wells is taking shape as dredging work enters its second phase… [mappress] Source: Fakenham & Wells Times, January 27, 2010
The Malta Environment and Planning Authority has approved the extension of the West Quay at the Malta Freeport, an extension which was turned down last year, to the consternation of many Birżebbuġa residents present… [mappress] Source: di-ve, January 21, 2010;
The recession has slashed container traffic and the cranes in the harbour lie still. But large-scale expansion is still underway… [mappress] Source: NRC International, January 21, 2010
