This morning, 17 March, saw the culmination of highly successful EU NAVFOR pirate disruption activities by the EU NAVFOR French warship Nivose against Pirate Action Groups (PAG) operating in the Somali basin, approximately 350 nautical miles off the Somali Coast. The PAG activities on 4 March led to
Statoil was the highest bidder on 21 leases today, 17 March, in the central area lease sale in the US Gulf of Mexico. “The lease sales are important events for us to high-grade our portfolio and to acquire new promising acreage”, explains Helen Butcher, Statoil exploration manager for the US Gulf of
China’s newest port, to be built at Huludao, Liaoning Province, will support the transportation of some 50 million tonnes of coal from landlocked Mongolia, China News Daily has reported. The first phase of the project will be finished by 2012, the paper quoted Zhao Rongging as saying. Annual through
Gulf News reported that the Phase I of Abu Dhabi’s USD 2.18 billion Khalifa Port will become operational in 2012 and the capital plans to develop smaller ports to cope with increasing traffic… [mappress] Source:gnews,March 19,2010;
HA NOI — Illegal sand dredgers will have their transport vehicles seized by the capital’s waterways police if they are caught committing illegal acts… [mappress] Source:vietnamnews,March 19,2010;
DELAWARE CITY, DEL. — Thursday is sirloin steak day for the 40-man crew on the cutterhead dredger that is now weaving back and forth in the channel of the Delaware River about 1.5 miles from Delaware City… [mappress] Source:courierpostonline,March 19,2010
PITTSFIELD — General Electric has until July 15 to propose its so-called Rest of River cleanup plan to remove PCBs from the Housatonic River, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. [mappress] Source:berkshireeagle,March 19,2010;
EAST China’s Yantai port, across from Korea on the Bohai Sea, plans to invest CNY2.5 billion (US$366 million) in 23 building projects with a expectation to reach a harbour throughput of 180 million tonnes in 2010, reports Xinhua. [mappress] Source:wnews,March 19,2010;
Mumbai: Rampant ,illegal sand-dredging,in contravention of rules laid down by the state government in its tender agreement with the dredgers,was witnessed on thuesday when TOI visited Bankot Creek in Raigad along with environmental activists… [mappress] Source:timesofindia,March 19,2010
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has received an award for supplier excellence from CNOOC, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation. After rigorous internal evaluation by project management teams, 28 Chinese and international vendors participating in nine of C
The UK Conservative Party has vowed to scrap backdated business rates bills owed by port-side operators if it wins the general election. A Tory government would scrap the “unfair” backdated bills – some totalling millions of pounds – and the party has called on local authorities to hold back from co
In what may be called a complete turnaround on its performance in awarding port projects under the public private participation (PPP) mode, the ministry of shipping has awarded 13 projects in fiscal 2009-10 compared to zero last year.
The Merchant Maritime Warfare Centre (MMWC), a UK based maritime anti-piracy organization, is launching their latest countermeasure, the MMWC Propeller Arresters. This is a non-lethal countermeasure to protect vessels underway regardless of vessel type, speed, cargo, flag state registration and weat
The work consists of maintenance dredging of approximately 800,000 cubic yards using a pipeline dredge in Gulf Intercoastal Waterway Texas main channel across Aransas bay in Aransas and Calhoun counties.The contract is awarded at March 16, 2010 to King Fisher Marine Service with a value of $4,940,65
