The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) rules are being implemented and single hulled tankers have been phased out. This would result in a large fleet of vessels going out of service by the year 2010-12… Source: Daily News, November 27, 2009;
ROTTERDAM – Bert Groothuizen, spokesman of Dredging company Van Oord said Thursday that they are not affected by the financial turmoil around Dubai World, the state owned project developer… Source: De Financiele Telegraaf, November 26, 2009
AMSTERDAM – Royal Boskalis Westminster nv is not active in Dubai and is therefore not affected by the current financial problems in the country, said a spokesman from the dredging contractor Thursday… Source: Financieel Dagblad, November 26, 2009
According to MEED (Middle East Business Intelligence) Bahrain’s local real estate developer Manara Developments has awarded US-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company an estimated BD10m ($26m) contract… Source: MEED, November 24, 2009 / Gulf Daily News, June 29, 2oo9
The investment of more than RM1.1 billion to upgrade Penang Port will come to naught if the port’s north channel is not deepened, said Penang Port Sdn Bhd (PPSB) managing director Datuk Ahmad ibni Hajar… Source: The Edge Malaysia, November 25, 2009;
Wrightsville Beach could get sand in its stocking this Christmas… Source: Lumina News, November 25, 2009
The dredging of Melbourne’s shipping channels will continue for another six months and return every five years despite the controversial project being declared complete… Source: Herald Sun, November 25, 2009;
A private investment group led by Highstar Capital has agreed to invest as much as $1.3 billion to expand the Port of Baltimore as ports in the eastern U.S. push to make changes needed to serve a new generation of supersize cargo vessels… Source: The Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2009
Subtech has once again made history when they removed the last section of the sub-aqueous tunnel from beneath the Durban harbour mouth. This is the first time that a sub-aqueous tunnel has been removed in its entirety… Source: Subtech
WASHINGTON — Manson Construction Co., Seattle, won a $3,751,000 federal contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Ga., for maintenance dredging. Place of performance will be at Charleston Entrance Channel, Charleston county, S.C… Source: Targeted News Service, November 24, 2009
Kuwait yesterday assured Bangladesh to provide all necessary support for the economic development of Bangladesh and procurement of dredgers for implementing the government’s capital and maintenance dredging in the country’s major rivers… Source: The New Nation, November 25, 2009
Work on the deepening of Liepaja Port has begun, LETA was informed by the Liepaja Special Economic Zone’s public relations specialist Liga Ratniece-Kadege. The work is being carried out by Belgian company Dredging International N.V… Source: Baltic Zone, November 25, 2009;
Shipbuilder IHC Merwede BV closes in mid March 2010 the slope of the former Merwede Shipyard in Rivierdijk Hardinxveld-Giessendam indefinitely… Source: Het Kompas, November 24, 2009
THE controversial dredging of Port Phillip Bay is complete, at a cost of $969 million… Source: Herald Sun, November 25, 2009
