Dredging
Hudson River: Call for improved dredging (USA)
Levels of PCB contamination in the Hudson River are far greater than first estimated and General Electric’s dredging operation must improve before the next phase of the toxic cleanup starts in 2011, according to a new report from federal regulators… [mappress] Source:lohud,March 10,2010;
India: Port development programme almost a failure
NEW DELHI: In what could be a setback for the government’s ambitious development goals, a latest audit finding reveals that investments in large infrastructure projects, many of them in the public private partnership (PPP), have failed to take off, getting stuck in bureaucratic hurdles… [mappress] S
USA: Green light for Raccoon Lake Dredging
The Centralia City Council Monday night voted to affirm the city’s funding commitment to the dredging project at Raccoon Lake… [mappress] Source:wjbdradio,March 10,2010;
Denmark: Kongsberg Maritime announces new Seapath 300 family of products
The next generation of the Kongsberg Seatex Seapath family will be displayed on the Kongsberg Maritime stand (E600) and demonstrated aboard MMT Seabeam at Oceanology International 2010. The new Seapath 300 family of products offers the best possible combination of GNSS… Source:frontierindia,March 9,
$2.42 billion Yangtze River Delta Dredging project almost completed this month
China’s costliest water transport project, a shipping channel dredging program to boost trade in the Yangtze River Delta area, is due to be completed in the middle of this month, a senior official with the Ministry of Transport said Tuesday… [mappress] Source:people,March 9,2010;
UK: Hopper Dredger Alexander von Humboldt will backfill new Tyne Tunnel
Work to backfill the new Tyne Tunnel, which was submerged in the river last month, is due to get under way… [mappress] Source:bbc,March 9,2010;
Ministry of Ports and Shipping will hire dredging firm to deepen and widen Port Qasim navigation channel (Pakistan)
The Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday (today) with Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Syed Naveed Qamar, in the chair will allow the Ministry of Ports and Shipping to hire a dredging firm to deepen and widen Port Qasim navigation c
Port of Durban: Dredger Pallieter provides ‘water ballet’
The R4 billion project to widen and deepen the Port of Durban entrance channel is just about complete, apart from a few finishing touches. Transnet Projects held a roadshow to ‘show off’ what has been done during which the dredger Pallieter and two harbour tugs provided a ‘water ballet’… [mappress]
USA: GE proposed halting further dredging of Hudson River
General Electric Co. on Monday proposed a halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup… [mappress] Source:ap,March 9,2010;
Fiji government launches Nadi River dredging tender
DREDGING work on the Nadi River will be outsourced by the Land and Mineral Resources Department… [mappress] Ssource: Fiji Times, March 9, 2010;
Brazil: $35.5m dredging tender lauched for Fortaleza port
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
CJS securities rates Orion Marine Group (USA) as market outperformer
According to CJS, Orion Marine Group (NYSE: ORN) reported Q4’09 EPS of $0.15, in-line with their recently reduced estimate of $0.14 and consensus. Sales of $71 million (vs. $69mmE) were consistent with management’s January 28th guidance revision and down 10% y/y… Source: Bezinga, March 8, 2010
UK: Westminster Dredging starts Ramsgate dredging project
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
USA: PLum Island Beach Re-nourishment Project Gets Attention From Contractors
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