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;
Waves carrying sand back to shore; federal emergency help expected… Source: Delaware Online, November 17, 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
The area around the pier is dredged to make it deep enough for the 220,000-tonne cruise ships it has been designed to berth. Sand will be stored on the land next to Dr. A.C. Wathey Cruise and Cargo Facilities until it is trucked to Pond Island or funnelled via a pipeline to Great Salt Pond […
RESON has been awarded a contract by the South African-based Marine GeoSolutions to upgrade their SeaBat 8101 to the new and more advanced SeaBat 7101 multibeam sonar system… Source: Oil Online, November 13, 2009
Glimmer of hope for Haldia port – After months of hampered operations, there is now an official assurance that the floundering Haldia Dock Complex (HDC), West Bengal’s only facility capable of handing large vessels… Source: The Business Standard, November 16, 2009;
A decades-long dispute about whether to dig a deeper shipping channel in the Delaware River has centered on both environmental and economic concerns… Source: The Star-Ledger, November 16, 2009;
PANAMA CITY – Construction of a new set of locks for the Panama Canal will begin in January, the consortium that holds the concession for the expansion project said… Source: Latin America Herald Tribune, November 14, 2009;
Under the Government initiatives to set up a modern port system in the country, many ports are being constructed throughout the coastal belt… Source: Ceylon Daily News, November 14, 2009;
Manson Construction Co., Seattle, Wash., was awarded on Nov. 6, 2009, a $6,976,300 firm-fixed-price contract for the Mississippi River, Cubit’s Gap and Southwest Pass, Hopper Dredge Rental Contract No. 11-2009, Plaquemines Parish, La… Source: DefPro, November 13, 2009
KOCHI: The ordeal of the captain and crew members of dredging vessel Meka I, stranded in Kochi after being detained by port officials here, has finally come to an end… Source: Express Buzz, November 12, 2009;
