Challenging the established aquatic allure of Amsterdam and Venice is the aim of an ambitious plan set to transform the waterways of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province… Source: China Daily, October 31, 2009
GIANT metal buckets designed and manufactured in the North East and exported to mining and construction companies worldwide are helping a family business to hold its own in the teeth of the recession… Read more: nebusiness
$46.3 million project awaits President Barack Obama’s signature… Read More: Jacksonville News
TWO big coal ventures, rail line development and a liquefied natural gas project are set to prompt massive expansion of the Abbot Point port, an economic development conference in Townsville was told yesterday… Read more: Townsville Bulletin
The dredging of the EKT dock will see the refinery utilise two docks simultaneously once its main dock is repaired. “This would significantly reduce our demurrage costs,” Winston Watson, general manager of Petrojam, told the Business Observer yesterday… More: Jamaica Observer
Why did the decision making process over the dredging of the Westerschelde go so terribly wrong that it has now soured relations between the Netherlands and Belgium? The Dutch parliament would like to know too and has summoned prime minister Balkenende to explain his role… More: NRC
PANAMA CITY – One hundred years after the first blocks of cement were placed in 1909 for construction of the Panama Canal, the interoceanic waterway through which 983,000 ships have sailed during a century of operations… More: Latin America Herald Tribune
The Belgian government is refusing to pay the Netherlands €300m it had agreed to hand over in compensation for environmental damage caused by deepening the Westerschelde estuary, news agency ANP reports on Monday… More: Dutch News
PREAH Sihanouk province customs officials prevented the export of several thousand tonnes of sand to Singapore in a recent raid, officials from the company transporting the material said Monday, adding, however, that it had obtained permission from the government to operate. More: Phomh Penh Post
The volume of sand exported to Singapore from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in the first half of 2009 was equivalent to the total exports of the last ten years. Ironically, most of it is shipped under falsely backdated contracts… More: VietNamNet
The Port Klang Authority has awarded a tender to local dredging company Integrated Marine Works Sdn. Bhd. to carry out capital dredging works at the Pintu Gedung or the South Channel. The tender was awarded to IMW Sdn. Bhd. and entails a work specification of deepening the south entrance to Port Kla
The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe. More: Guardian
The withdrawal of Dredge XVII would sound the death knell for Haldia as the depth of the river has dropped to 4.3 metres at Auckland and four metres at Jellingham… More: The Hindu Business
PANGNIRTUNG, NUNAVUT – Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged $25 million for a harbour refit today and promised to give northern residents a slice of future economic action… More: The Star
