The council is to invest £3 million this year in dredging Scalloway Harbour, it was agreed at a meeting of the harbour board today. The work will create a channel 8.5 metres deep by 100 metres wide, and straighten the approaches into the harbour. The harbour board had originally… [mappress] Source:s
For (future) decision makers and their advisors in governments, port and harbour authorities, offshore companies and other organisations that have to execute dredging projects, the International Association of Dredging Companies, in co-operation with UNESCO – IHE, organises… [mappress] Source:IADC,A
Olmsted and Wabasha counties’ efforts to establish a dredging district around Lake Zumbro are back to square one. Legal research by the Olmsted County Attorney’s office turned up a 1989 state attorney general’s opinion that the 50-percent threshold for signatures… [mappress] Source:postbulletin,Apri
The under-utilised Cuddalore minor port in Tamil Nadu is to be developed by the private sector under the public-private-partnership (PPP) mode. This is for the first time in the country that an existing minor port is to be developed in the PPP mode while other minor ports developed… [mappress] Sourc
Holland harbor’s first commercial vessel of the season got stuck before it got there. Annual dredging is scheduled to start as early as next week, according to the Army Corps of Engineers Detroit office. A tug boat-barge combination had to back off of a sandbar at the entrance to the Holland… [mappr
With a three-year, $300,000 award from the National Science Foundation, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is studying the… [mappress] Source: physorg, April 28, 2010;
AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division and Dutch consortium partner Keppel Verolme B.V. have secured a €62 million order for an Offshore High Voltage Substation project with Wetfeet Offshore Windenergy GmbH, a German wind energy project development company and AREVA T&D partner. This turnkey
ST. PETERSBURG — The Baltic Sea port of Ust Luga expects to more than double exports this year on its way to becoming a major trade route for refined oil products, coal, grains and even cars, the port’s director said. Coal miner Kuzbassrazrezugol will expand its terminal at Ust Luga… [mappress] Sour
WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown today announced that the University of Toledo will receive $750,000 in funds from the U.S…. [mappress] Source: abclocal, April 28, 2010;
SAN DIEGO — The last time Mission Bay Channel was dredged, Los Angeles was hosting the Olympic Games, Apple just introduced the Macintosh computer, and Robert Duvall won an Academy Award for best actor in “Tender Mercies.” A lot of water has rushed in and out of Mission Bay since… [mappress] Source:
Korea and the Netherlands have agreed to work together on Korea’s river restoration and land reclamation projects.During a bilateral summit between President Lee Myung-bak and the visiting prime minister of the Netherlands, Peter Balkenende in Seoul, the two leaders welcomed the signing of various a
A whole new way of generating electricity in the U.S. drew a big step closer to reality Wednesday, and it could look like this: 130… [mappress] Source: cbs4denver, April 28, 2010;
A whole new way of generating electricity in the U.S. drew a big step closer to reality Wednesday, and it could look like this: 130… [mappress] Source: cbs4denver, April 28, 2010;
In January 2010, wind farms in Germany had a generating capacity of 25,777 megawatts. This means that almost eight percent of Germany’s… [mappress] Source: dlr, April 28, 2010;
