Following the Venice Port Authority’s push for a 16 metre draught in one of its navigation channels, the authority has rebuked claims that its dredging works in the Venice lagoon area could destroy the historic city… Source: Port Strategy, November 19, 2009;
TEXAS CITY — A New Jersey-based marine construction firm was awarded a $61.8 million contract Wednesday to deepen the Texas City Ship Channel… Source: The Galveston Daily News, November 19, 2009;
HARVEY CEDARS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and contractor Weeks Marine dumped the first load of sand Tuesday morning on the borough’s 86th Street beach, marking the beginning of the long-awaited beach-replenishment project… Source: Press of Atalantic City, November 17, 2009;
The Premier has disclosed further details on the $60 million cruise ship dock, saying “a slew of contract variations caused the project to escalate”… Source: The Royal Gazette, November 18, 2009;
Companies in Argentina have started building a key natural gas pipeline to connect two areas near the Straits of Magellan in southern Argentina, the gas regulator, Enargas, said in a statement Sunday… Source: Downstream Today, November 16, 2009
More than 430 TVA employees and contractors are working around the clock to fill and ship more than 85 rail cars a day of sludgy coal ash from the Kingston Fossil Plant spill, TVA officials said Monday… Source: Chattanooga Times, November 17, 2009
The United States Army Corps of Engineers awarded King Fisher Marine Service, LP, Port Lavaca, Texas, on Nov. 16, 2009 with a $8,937,945 firm-fixed-price contract… Source: DefPro, November 17, 2009;
The Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) proposes to undertake 36 million cubic metres of dredging associated with the deepening and widening of existing channels and swing basins, and the creation of new channels, swing basins and berth pockets in the Western Basin… Source: Port of Gladstone, November
Swiss shipowner Allseas has said that its pipelay vessel, the ‘Pieter Schelte’ will be built at an Asian shipyard… Source: Baird Maritime, November 18, 2009;
Waves carrying sand back to shore; federal emergency help expected… Source: Delaware Online, November 17, 2009;
The dredging of the lower River Niger, a project that has for over 40 years remained on the drawing board, finally kicks off… Source: Newswatch Magazine, November 16, 2009;
The foundation stone of the much-talked-about Sonadia deep-sea port will be laid in December 2010… Source: The New Nation, November 17, 2009
Bangladesh said Tuesday it would need 10 billion dollars from rich countries in the next four years to offset the effects of climate change — double its original estimate… Source: Voice of South, November 17, 2009;
National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), is a life line for steel makers like JSW, Ispat and Essar and now its huge cash reserves of over Rs 20,000 crore is set to become a new lifeline for Karnataka… Source: NDTV, November 17, 2009;
