Propelling port expansion plans further, the Shipping Ministry will award a Rs 1,407-crore contract for building a container terminal at Ennore and another contract for a project at Vizag next week… Source:business-standard,December 30,2009; [mappress]
Peru’s private investment promotion agency ProInversión has launched a tender to build and operate the new Yurimaguas-Nueva Reforma river port in Loreto region… Source: BN Americas, December 30, 2009; [mappress]
The effects of the economic meltdown and near collapse of the financial markets of late 2008 and early 2009 manifested themselves at the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) in a reduction of cargo volumes beginning in January of 2009… Source:jaxdailyrecord,December 30,2009; [mappress]
The Union shipping ministry has identified 17 projects to be executed on public-private partnership, or the so-called PPP, basis… Source: DNA, December 31, 2009;
In a year end update, Dockwise has announced that since the contract awards statement issued on November 19, a further 11 near-term contract wins have been secured by its subsidiary, Dockwise Shipping, for the transportation of rigs, barges and dredging cargoes. In addition, Dockwise has announced t
A consortium of Spain’s FCC, Mexico’s ICA and Costa Rica’s Meco has won the final Panama Canal dry-excavation contract with a US$ 267.8 million bid. The consortium beat Belgium’s Jan de Nul, Brazil’s Oderbrecht and the… Source: International Construction, December 30, 2009 [mappress]
Delaware appears increasingly anxious to churn out an approval for a Delaware River main channel deepening, under terms that would salvage its pride and protect states’ rights to have a say on such projects… Source: Courier Post, December 26, 2009 [mappress]
HUE — The dredging of Hue’s Phat Lat Canal, which has been blocked for years by debris, will help improve the flow of An Cuu and Nhu Y rivers… Source: VNS, December 30, 2009;
A 2,000-ton patrol ship built by Taiwan’s largest private shipbuilder under a consignment contract with the Cabinet-level Coast Guard Administration (CGA) was launched from a shipyard in Kaohsiung Harbor yesterday. The ship, christened The Tainan, is the largest patrol ship the CGA has ever ordered.
Conceived originally for a client with an exacting brief, Newman Stacey Design are developing a 72m cruising superyacht which utilises ICON Yachts optimised hull platform. In essence, the brief from the client was to design a family yacht. There was a great emphasis on well being, and it had to be a
China Ship Fund, the first investment fund for the Chinese shipping industry, began operations in Tianjin yesterday, mainly to support an industry caught in the middle of the economic slowdown. It was one of the ten approved industry funds by the National Development and Reform Committee.
Ship owners and chartered vessel operators are no longer willing to allow their vessels to call at any of the Nigerian ports for fear of attack by pirates. It was learnt that the few ones that called do so at very high freights. The Secretary of the Lagos Pilotage District Berthing Committee, Mr Ste
With as many as 130 ships being broken simultaneously, the Alang ship breaking yard has crossed the milestone of dismantling 5,000 ships before the end of 2009. Since its inception in 1982, the yard has recycled 35.61 lakh light displacement tonnage (LDT).
Prior to the implementation of SHT, certification for fishing boats to net fish in Indonesia’s territory, activists warned Indonesian government on Wednesday that the policy implementation could risk the development of Indonesian traditional fishermen. Responding to the Maritime and Fisheries Minist
