Statoil has confirmed that it will award contracts worth between 49 and 50 billion kroner in the second quarter of 2010, our sister site Offshore.no reports. The suppliers are competing for maintenance and modification deals on all of Statoil’s Norwegian installations.
BW Gas Ltd., the world’s biggest shipper of liquefied petroleum gas, idled four tankers because rates plunged so low that each vessel was losing the company about $25,000 a day. The Berge Racine will idle until the end of the year, when it will be given to new owners, Andreas Sohmen-Pao, chief execu
India’s major ports have reported a 5.5 percent growth in the period between April 2009 and February 2010 compared with the corresponding period one year ago. The Financial Express (India) said that this signalled a gradual revival in exports as the world economy recovered from the financial crisis.
Dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River will continue as planned in 2011, regardless of whether General Electric Co. decides against continuing to pay for and run the cleanup, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA will take over work if it has to, a position that the agency has h
MANATEE — Port Manatee’s governing board is poised to adopt a debt-management plan that anticipates borrowing more money to improve and expand the port… [mappress] Source:bradenton,March 16,2010;
FORT EDWARD — Dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River will continue as planned in 2011, regardless of whether General Electric Co. decides against continuing to pay for and run the cleanup, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency… [mappress] Source:timesunion,March 16,2010;
There is a compelling logic to the London Gateway plans — taking London back to its roots as a global trading hub… [mappress] Source:timesonline,March 16,2010;
BAGHDAD: Iraq will next month invite foreign firms to submit bids for the planned construction of a US$6 billion (US$1 = RM3.32) port south of Basra, which together with a new rail system will create a regional transport conduit to rival the Suez Canal, officials say… [mappress] Source:btimes,March
DP World starts work on Thames deep-sea port.A giant dredger will begin construction tomorrow of the first deep-sea port in Britain for 25 years, designed to receive the biggest container ships from the Far East… [mappress] Source:timesonline,March 15,2010;
Nigeria’s Minister of Transport Ibrahim Bio has served notice on the contractor involved with rehabilitating the inland river port of Onitsha to ensure that it is completed within the stipulated time and in good order… [mappress] Source: Ports & Ships Maritime News, March 16, 2010
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has signed an agreement with Somali’s Puntland state to help expand the capacity of the port of Bossasso in Puntland on the Horn of Africa… [mappress] Source: Ports & Ships Maritime News, March 16, 2010;
KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) – Federal regulators have concluded that it is technologically impossible to remove all the coal ash from the Emory River and an undetermined amount will stay in the water when the Kingston ash spill is complete… [mappress] Source:wkrn,March 15,2010;
Tugs, described in Bluff Your Way to Sea as the wrestlers of the marine industry, have predominantly been the domain of monohulls… Source:seatransport,March 15,2010
Elia System Operator (Elia), the Belgian transmission system operator (TSO), and Industry Funds Management (IFM), one of the largest global infrastructure investment managers, announced on 12 March the signing of an agreement under which they will acquire the German regional transmission system oper
