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;
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
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;
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,
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;
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;
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
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]
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;
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
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
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
