The Ministry of Works (MoW) has completed the first phase of dredging of the Bahrain Approach Channel (BAC), which leads to the new Khalifa Bin Salman Port (KBSP) and other port facilities in the kingdom… [mappress] Source:tradearabia,March 15,2010;
The cutter sweeps back and forth across the channel like an enormous, ultra-powerful vacuum cleaner, ingesting everything it comes across. The metal machine gnaws at the sand to loosen it up before it is drawn about 20 feet away, to the bowels of a chugging, 700 horsepower diesel engine… [mappress]
A GIANT dredger is helping to make the £260m second Tyne Tunnel a reality – and protecting the environment… [mappress] Source: Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette, March 12, 2010;
Jordan’s Aqaba Development Corp (ADC), the central development company for the Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ), has invited firms to submit expressions of interest by April 11 for a marine works contract on the $700m Aqaba New Port project… [mappress] Source: AME info, March 14, 2010;
The first phase of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) is almost complete, apart from the land-side works, and all the various dredgers, hopper barges, survey vessels and ancillary craft have now left the port… [mappress] Source: Maritime Journal, March 11, 2010;
JOHANNESBURG – Aim-listed Firestone Diamonds has been selected as the preferred candidate to build and operate a new dredge and a 11,5-million ton a year floating treatment plant (FTP) for Namibian diamond-miner Namdeb… [mappress] Source: Mining Weekly, March 12, 2010
A sustained dredging program of the Swansea Channel over the 2009-10 summer means that boats should have no problems coming up the coast and getting into the lake… [mappress] source: Sail World, March 12, 2010
The authorities in Abu Dhabi are reportedly on track to complete by US$409m project to construct a channel that will improve access to the Mussafah industrial zone by the middle of 2010… [mappress] Source: Maritime Journal, March 11, 2010
Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE) recently completed its scheduled comprehensive, maintenance dredging project, 11 days ahead of schedule and more than two million dollars under budget… [mappress] Source: The Dolphin, March 11, 2010; October 14, 2008
DREDGING work on the Nadi River will be outsourced by the Land and Mineral Resources Department… [mappress] Ssource: Fiji Times, March 9, 2010;
Brazil’s special ports department (SEP) has launched a 63.5mn-real (US$35.5mn) tender for dredging at Ceará state’s Fortaleza port… [mappress] Source: BN Americas, March 8, 2010
Three weeks of dredging has begun at the Port of Ramsgate in preparation for the launch of a new ferry service to Belgium… [mappress] Source: Thanet News, March 8, 2010
PLUM ISLAND — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open bids Monday on a long-awaited project of beach re-nourishment at Plum Island and Salisbury… [mappress] Source: The Daily News of Newburyport, March 7, 2010
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District intends to issue an Invitation for Bids (IFB) for the award of a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Contract to perform maintenance dredging of the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway Federal Navigation Project, NY, in the Moriches Bay section of the channel… [m
