It’s a go for deepening the Delaware River shipping channel an additional 5 feet… [mappress] Source: Philly News, January 28, 2010
City government targets to start dredging works on 13 rivers in Jakarta by June 2010. The project is to be funded with a loan of Rp 1.5 trillion (around 150 million US dollars) from World Bank. The debt will be shouldered by central government by 59 percent of the total loan, and city government by
A NEW outer harbour which will extend tidal access times into Wells is taking shape as dredging work enters its second phase… [mappress] Source: Fakenham & Wells Times, January 27, 2010
Technip has been awarded a contract for the development of the flexible pipe system in the Aseng Field, located in Block I offshore Equatorial Guinea… [mappress] Source: Pipelines International, January 22, 2010;
CHINESE company Shanghai Co has been selected by the government to develop infrastructure at Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP)… [mappress] Source: Phnom Phen Post, January 22, 2010
AUTHORITIES have temporarily suspended three Kampot province dredging operations for sand to export, a local official confirmed on Tuesday, but confusion remains over the exact reason… [mappress] Source: Phnom Phen Post, January 27, 2010;
Work on the second largest contract of the Panama Canal Expansion Program has begun. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) issued consortium FCC-ICA-Meco the Notice to Commence the fourth and final dry excavation (PAC-4) contract… [mappress] Source: MarineLink, January 26, 2010
DUBAI – Abu Dhabi-based National Marine Dredging Co., or NMDC, said Wednesday it made a net profit of 413.2 million U.A.E. dirhams ($112.6 million) in 2009, a 55.6% increase on the previous year… [mappress] Source: Maktoob, January 26, 2010
The first phase of a multi-billion dollar plan to build a new port in Doha will be up and running by November 2014, a senior project official has announced… [mappress] Source:arabiansupplychain,January 27,2010;
With private players deliberating on investing in infrastructure projects in the aftermath of the global slowdown, nearly half of the projects for capacity expansion at ports, scheduled for awarding this year, are likely to spill over into the coming financial year (2010-11)… [mappress] Source: Busi
BROOKSVILLE — While Hernando County has already paid its dredging contractor a third of the contract amount, only 6 percent of the work had been completed before the project at Hernando Beach was recently brought to a halt because of environmental problems… [mappress] Source: St. Peterburg Times, Ja
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure is likely to take up the matter of allowing Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) to buy three dredgers at a cost of more than Rs 1,700 crore this week. DCI proposes to purchase the dredgers through international… Source: The Financial Express, Januar
THE government is going to formulate a policy to stop haphazard sand extraction from different rivers as unplanned sand extraction is harming the country’s aquatic resources… [mappress] Source: The New Nation, January 23, 2010;
In the trial court, Timothy Corbin, a commercial fisherman was awarded damages against the Subaqueous Services, a dredging company, after his boat collided with unmarked dredge pipeline. The dredging company appealed on three issues… Source: Newsome, January 21, 2010
