Stuck is an understatement. Stranded does it no justice. Marooned? Closer, but not quite… Source: Daily Press, November 29, 2009
MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has been granted an adjournment debate in the House of Commons… Source: Politics.co.uk, November 30, 2009;
Tons of sand is being removed from the harbor and deposited on the beach… Source: The Tribune, November 30, 2009;
The Jakarta administration is waiting for a World Bank loan channeled by the Finance Ministry before starting its project to dredge 13 main rivers… Source: Jakarta Post, November 30, 2009;
MELBOURNE’S most popular beach destinations are disappearing and concerned locals blame dredging… Source: Herald Sun, November 30, 2009
The project work consists of excavating shoal material from the project channel to a required depth of 40 feet plus an allowable 2-foot overdepth… Source: www.fbo.org;
The work consists of dredging approximately 3,000,000 cubic yards of maintenance material by pipeline dredge at Matagorda Peninsula to Point Comfort. No levee work. Estimated completion time is 180 calendar days… Source: www.fbo.gov;
After international construction and development major Dubai World failing to repay its huge pile of debt on time, the state of its bids for development of container terminal berths at major ports in India may come under the scanner… Source: Indian Express, November 28, 2009
GuySuCo is unable to boost sugar exports because of the siltation in the Demerara River and the Interim Board has proposed dredging the river… Source: Stabroek News, November 29, 2009;
HUNDREDS of construction workers on the $43 billion Gorgon gas project will live on a luxury Norwegian cruise ship anchored off Barrow Island… Source: PerthNow, November 28, 2009;
As part of the project Port Baltic Iron and Steel Terminal has begun construction of 1st phase of the terminal in the commercial port of Ust-Luga, Leningrad region… Source: SteelGuru, November 28, 2009
American Marine Co. is waiting for permit approval to dredge Kíkíaola Harbor. Work could resume as soon as Monday… Source: Honolulu Advertiser, November 28, 2009;
China Merchant Holdings has virtually by-passed its local partner the Aitken Spence for the first terminal of the new Colombo South Harbour and has unilaterally enhanced its financial bid all round in recent days… Source: The Nation, November 29, 2009
FREEPORT — Containers of sediment soon will connect Freeport with a Civil War-era gunboat sunken 146 years ago in Galveston Bay… Source: The Facts, November 29, 2009;
