Dredging
China: Wuhan’s waterways set to rival canal network of Venice
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
Bucket-loads of orders for Midland Steel Traders
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
Dredging near Mayport Naval Station OK’d by Congress
$46.3 million project awaits President Barack Obama’s signature… Read More: Jacksonville News
Huge expansion at Abbot Point (AU)
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
Petrojam (Jamaica) to spend $202 million on dredging following June crash
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
Shifting blame in the Westerschelde debacle
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
Work to Begin Soon on New Set of Locks for Panama Canal
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
Belgium refuses to pay 300 million Euro Westerschelde bill
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
Cambodia’s Coastal dredging operation halted
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
Singapore demand and phony contracts sustain booming Mekong sand exports
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
World’s largest Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger arrives at Port Klang (Malaysia)
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
Nile Delta: ‘We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands’
The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe. More: Guardian
‘Kolkata port’s (India) interests will be protected in dredging issue’
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
Nunavut harbour (Canada) refit will benefit fish industry
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