SAN DIEGO — A giant crane towering over the waters of Mission Bay near Hospitality Point painstakingly picks up one huge boulder at a time from a barge and carefully sets it on the tip of the south jetty… Source: Sign on San Diego, November 3, 2009;
Victoria Harbour has been squeezed to less than half its original width – to a mere 910 metres – with the completion of the Central Reclamation Phase III. Before any reclamation began, the gap between Kowloon and Hong Kong – from Johnson Road in Wan Chai to Chatham Road in Tsim Sha Tsui – was [&hell
Bald Head Island has started work on a $15 million beach nourishment project to rebuild its badly eroded west and south beach areas… Source: Star News Online, November 2, 2009;
The dredging of Nassau Harbour is more than 70 percent complete, according to project manager Robert Garraway… Source: The Nassau Guardian, November 3, 2009;
DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)–Plans to invest almost $40 billion to triple port capacity across the oil-rich Persian Gulf region are sailing against stiff global economic head winds, according to industry experts… Source: Zawya Dow Jones, November 3, 2009;
The announcement that plans for a new major deep water port in Mexico have been renewed is bound to stir controversy locally if the project actually materializes… Source: YumaSun, October 31, 2009;
About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from U.S. waters as they move farther offshore, according to a new study by NOAA researchers.
A zero-emission motor yacht, a superyacht built by the first Western shipyard in China and a flats skiff that doubles as a duck boat were among the varied watercraft on display at the 50th anniversary Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
The Common Fisheries Policy, (CFP) is “the most ill thought out European policy affecting Scotland”, Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead will say. Mr Lochhead will also target rules which force fishermen to discard fish, as wasteful and unnecessary.
Providence Journal reports that the US Army Corps of Engineers has awarded nearly US$1 million to a New York company to begin dredging the navigation channel in Point Judith Harbour, and says the Corps is planning to dispose of the sediments off Matunuck to help replenish its beaches.
The Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA) in the US says it “applauds” the Internal Revenue Service’s recently posted directive to field officers establishing an issue management team in the wake of an IRS analysis indicating that a significant number of foreign vessels permitted to work in the
The Gardline Group in the UK has recently formed a brand new company to support the fast growing energy and renewables market: Alicat Workboats Limited. Alicat Workboats Limited (ACWL), a provider of aluminium vessels and repair specialist, plans to position itself as a major aluminium boatbuilding/
Up to 2,000 vessels could be setting out on their final voyages next year, Henning Gramman, head of ship recycling at Germanisher Lloyd’s, told a conference in London recently, according to Lloyd’s List. According to Gramman, about 1,200 vessels could be scrapped this year.
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