With soaring dredging prospects, more and more shipping companies and port operators are taking the dredging route in India to boost their revenues. Source: Maritime Professional, January 4, 2010
SYDNEY, N.S. — The Sydney Marine Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with the ports of Philadelphia and Delaware to develop a deep-water container terminal in Sydney. [mappress] Source: The News, January 7, 2010
Listed Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has lodged resource consent applications to deepen its navigation channel for larger vessels, at a cost of up to $100 million; a process Port Otago hopes to follow during the next few months. [mappress] Source: Otago Daily Times, January 8, 2010;
Targets 3,000 tonnes waste extraction in 3 months Several hundred locals in a colourful boat procession were chanting slogans in support of saving the Buriganga as Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan… [mappress] Source: The Daily Star, January 7, 2010
The US Army Corps of Engineers launched today a tender for the lease of a Cutterhead, Hydraulic Pipeline Dredge for construction and maintenance dredging within the Vicksburg and adjacent Districts. More info: fbo.gov
Tuguegarao City — In an effort to further boost the business and tourism industry in this northern tip of Luzon, the municipality of Aparri, Cagayan is firm in its goal to complete the rehabilitation of its seaport until 2015. [mappress] Source: Philippine Information Agency, January 6, 2010;
NAIROBI — China will finance the building of a second port in Kenya, a transport corridor and the upgrading of a railroad linking Kenya’s Mombasa port and the Ugandan capital, a statement said Wednesday. Source: AFP, January 6, 2009
Gladstone Ports Corporation has invited expressions of interest in its proposed Western Basin Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) dredging project ahead of a decision on its environmental submission. [mappress] Source: Lloyd’s List DCN, January 7, 2009
In general, the work shall consist of the following: Rental of Hopper Dredge with Attendant Plant and Operators for Maintenance Dredging of approximately 2,500,000 cubic yards in navigation channels in Mobile Harbor. The work will consist of removal and satisfactory disposal of material as directed
SYDNEY — The marine group promoting the dredging of the harbour and construction of a container terminal has scheduled a news conference for Thursday to announce what the Sydney Ports Corp. is calling a unique development. [mappress] Source: capebretonpost,January 6,2010
VILLAGERS in Koh Kong province say they continue to suffer from large-scale sand-dredging operations in coastal estuaries, which they add have reduced fish catches and threatened the livelihoods of thousands of local fishermen. [mappress] Source: The Phnom Phen Post, January 6, 2010
Nearly five years after regional water-pollution cops announced a landmark order to clean toxic muck in San Diego Bay, they’re back with a plan that would remove just 16 percent of the sediment targeted initially. [mappress] Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 6, 2009
A $70MILLION project is being proposed for a diversion canal to prevent further flooding in Nadi town. [mappress] Source: Fiji Times, January 6, 2010;
Dhaka — Beginning next month, India will dredge Ichhamati river in Bangladesh and the south Asian neighbours will for the first time cooperate to protect the banks of the rivers they share. [mappress] Source: Asian-Indo News Service, January 6, 2010;
