The Federal Government yesterday halted the dredging of the lower River Niger pending the total protection of shorelines through land reclamation of areas in the Niger Delta. [mappress] Source: All Africa, February 24, 2010
The Port of Salalah to embark on a major expansion of its container and general cargo terminals during the next phase of its development — an upgrade that would effectively launch Salalah into the major league of transhipment hubs of the world. [mappress] Source: Oman Daily Observer, February 23, 20
Work is to be “paused” on public facilities in the €300 million Greystones Harbour redevelopment project in north Co Wicklow, its backers have confirmed. [mappress] Source: Irish Times, February 23, 2010;
The Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) Priyath Wickrama has said that the port was in the final stages of negotiations with a private investor consortium, led by China Merchant Holdings, for the construction of a new deepwater container terminal. [mappress] Source: Baird Maritime, Febr
LR-Fairplay reports that Fortescue Metals has announced that it will postpone a key phase of a major iron ore mine, port and rail development until 2013. [mappress] Source:wotnews,February 22,2010;
BAY CITY — The country’s largest diversified supplier of construction materials has acquired two docks on the Saginaw River, creating the potential for increased shipping traffic on a waterway that has seen sluggish times of late. [mappress] Source:mlive,February 22,2010;
Morgan Joseph repeats ‘Buy’ advice for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (Nasdaq: GLDD), price target $8. Source: StreetInsider, February 22, 2010
Dredging work at Finnish harbours and along shipping routes are stirring up sediments on the sea bottom significantly more than the laying of the planned undersea natural gas pipeline would. [mappress] Source: Helsingin Sanomat, February 22, 2010
“SMELLY black goo” has been bubbling to the surface of Newcastle Harbour near the Stockton Ferry terminal, authorities confirmed yesterday. [mappress] Source: The Herald, February 22, 2010
A university scientist has been appointed chief investigator in a £607,000 research project aimed at understanding what happens when rivers meet tides in the world’s largest estuaries. [mappress] Source:brighton,February 19,2010;
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Projects to dredge sediment and silt from Tsengwen Reservoir in Tainan County and the Gaoping River in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung area were launched Thursday in an effort to complete them before this year’s rainy or typhoon season. [mappress] Source:chinapost,February 21,2010;
Officials with the Army Corps of Engineers will discuss a variety of restoration and hurricane risk-reduction projects that are either being planned or are under construction along Louisiana’s coastline. [mappress] Source:nola,February 21,2010;
Gov. Chris Christie has vowed to continue the state’s fight against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel from Philadelphia south. [mappress] Source:newjerseynewsroom,February 20,2010;
EAST CHICAGO | Invoices went out at the beginning of the year seeking money from industries along the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal and companies that use the waterways, but so far, no one’s paid up. [mappress] Source:nwitimes,February 21,2010;
