River pilots and exporters are warning that the mouth of the Mississippi River is silting in, threatening a major commercial route, because… (latimes) [mappress] Source: latimes, January 27, 2011;
Harbor Advisory Committee members are scheduled to revisit harbor dredging when they meet on Wednesday, a topic that has stirred debate in… By Terry Date (swampscott) [mappress] Source: swampscott, January 27, 2011;
Dredging has been completed in the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, Fla., increasing mean low water depths to 10 … (fangaroo) [mappress] Source: fangaroo, January 27, 2011;
The Santa Rosa County Commission is set to give the go-ahead tomorrow for a project to begin what County Administrator Hunter Walker called… BY LOUIS COOPER (pnj) [mappress] Source: pnj, January 27, 2011;
It is reported that the design and construction of the USD 50 million iron ore facility at Port Pirie in South Australia has taken another… (steelguru) [mappress] Source: steelguru, January 27, 2011;
A study is underway to try to find out why the city’s deep-water port must be dredged annually while other similar ports around the world… By Sandra Davis (canadaeast) [mappress] Source: canadaeast, January 27, 2011;
A group of Montauk residents on Tuesday filed a $25 million lawsuit against East Hampton Town, Suffolk County and New York State, claiming… By Will James (27east) [mappress] Source: 27east, January 27, 2011;
Van Oord has been awarded the dredging contract for the Iraq crude oil export expansion project off the coast of Iraq in the Arabian Gulf. The client is the South Oil Company of Iraq. Van Oord will be working for main contractor Leighton based in Australia. The contract value for Van Oord amounts to
Van Oord and the green investment company Typhoon Offshore B.V. signed a letter of intent for the construction of the BARD-Netherlands offshore wind farm. The wind farm (600 MW output capacity) will consist of two adjoining wind farms with a capacity of 300 MW each, located 55 km north of the island
Multinational consortium Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) plans to invest US$750 million by 2043 in order to increase the cargo … (macauhub) [mappress] Source: macauhub, January 26, 2011;
The first two of an eventual total of six Super PostPanamax Ship-To-Shore (STS) cranes are being delivered this week to Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT) in the Cai Mep – Thi Vai port complex located approximately 80kms southeast of Ho Chi Minh City. Six Rubber Tyred Gantries (RTGs) will complet
The County Commission took the first steps Tuesday to take over control of the Hernando Beach Channel dredging project by rejecting the sole… By Barbara Behrendt (tampabay) [mappress] Source: tampabay, January 26, 2011;
DP World has announced it handled 49.6 million TEU across its 50 operating terminals in 2010, an increase of 14 percent against the prior… (bairdmaritime) [mappress] Source: bairdmaritime, January 26, 2011
New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I, D, WF-Sag Harbor) announced that he will be taking several actions to pressure the U.S. … (hamptons) [mappress] Source: hamptons, January 26, 2011;
