The Obama administration will approve significant oil and gas exploration off America’s coasts, including a possible sale two years from now of leases off Virginia’s coast, administration officials said Wednesday. The move, which President Obama will announce Wednesday morning with Interior Secretar
CHINA’s largest water transport project, Yangtze River Mouth’s deepwater channel’s phase three rectification, has passed the state inspection,dredging has been successfully done and the channel has been opened for trial operations, reports Xinhua. [mappress] Source:Xinhua,March 31,2010;
After having established his group as the largest private port (Mundra Port and SEZ Ltd) on the west coast of India, Gautam Adani, chairman, Adani group, is on the verge of setting up a very large all-weather, deep-water port (possibly the largest private port) on the eastern coast of the country as
The port of Philadelphia and ports of the Delaware River are at a crossroads, and the river’s shipping channel must be deepened for jobs and Pennsylvania’s future, five candidates seeking to be the state’s next governor said yesterday. [mappress] Source:philly,March 31,2010;
THE year 2010 will be a big year for Penang Port.The extension to its container wharf will be completed and the six new cranes built by ZPMC and delivered in December 2009 will commence service.As the Penang Port managing director Datuk Ahmad Ibnihajar puts it… [mappress] Source:btimes,March 31,2010
Karachi—Minister for Ports and Shipping, Senator Babar Khan Ghauri in presence of the Vice Minister for Transport, Peoples Republic of China, Xu Zuyuan, inaugurated the construction of marine protection and quay wall works of the Deep Water Container Port at Karachi Port on 30th March 2010. [mappres
The Turkish government is going to support Bangladesh in dredging its rivers and in implementing the much-expected Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Phase-II project inside the existing hospital premises. [mappress] Source: The Daily Star, March 31, 2010
The dredging of Pashur channel near Mongla Port will begin soon involving Tk 100 crore with a view to easing vessel movement around the port channel. Sourcess aid that 13 kilometres long Pashur channel from the port’s jetty to Dakkhin Harbaria will be dredged. [mappress] Source: The New Nation: Marc
After almost three years, the Belgian dredging and hydraulic engineering group DEME today completes a major port upgrading programme in Durban, South Africa. [mappress] Source:worldnews,March 30,2010;
MARQUETTE — It was a busy night for the Marquette City Commission Monday.The commission voted 6 to 1 to give the go ahead on the Presque Isle and Founders Landing marina projects.Mayor John Kivela stressed that it’s simply a working master plan, and designs and costs could certainly change before th
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — A small group of pelicans waited patiently last week as watery sand from the Pascagoula River shot out of a 14-inch pipe, hoping a fish might end up in the mix. [mappress] Source: Gulf Live, March 30, 2010
The scope of the work involved is Dredging of Cochin Shipyard Quayside from North end of Quay-1 to South end of Quay-3 up to a distance of 120 Metres from quay line. More details: Cochin Shipyard [mappress]
Armed militants and prominent youths from some communities in the Niger Delta are now giving security cover to officials of Fung Tai Company handling the dredging of Lot one that covers Bifurcation to Warri in the war tone region. [mappress] Source: All Africa, March 30, 2010
The wind farm developer PNE WIND AG (ISIN: DE000A0JBPG2) has today published the certified figures for the past year together with the 2009 business report. According to IFRS accounting principles the company has generated an annual result of 10.1 million euros. Unlike the previous year’s amount of
