Marine engineers have begun a £1 million clean-up operation at a flood-hit port blocked by thousands of tonnes of debris… Source: UKPA, December 30, 2009; [mappress]
Nord Stream has received its final permit from Germany for the construction of a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea to directly link Russia with western Europe. Critics are voicing environmental concerns… Source: Deutsche Welle, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
Prince Albert II of Monaco is planning to reclaim land from the sea with a ground-breaking scheme that will allow the tiny population to expand… Source: Telegraph, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
The European Commission adopted on December 18 the decisions for the financing of three major projects submitted under Priority Axis 2 – “Modernization and development of national transport infrastructure outside the TEN-T… Source:financiarul,December 23,2009; [mappress]
DREDGING has been completed on time for the £260m second Tyne Tunnel scheme – boosting new industrial development in South Tyneside… Source:shieldsgazette,December 26,2009; [mappress]
Primorje Wins Bid to Extend Container Terminal in Croatia’s Main Port Ajdovscina… Source: Invest Slovenia, December 23, 2009; [mappress]
Aberdeen company Subocean has won tens of millions of pounds of funding to allow it to expand overseas. The private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group (LDC)… Source: BBC News, December 21, 2009
Following an Adjournment Debate at the House of Commons on off-shore dredging, led by Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart, a government minister has answered a series of questions… Source: Graham Stuart, December 18, 2009;
Lean times lie ahead for companies on the hunt for maintenance dredging work, with the real effect of the economic downturn not hitting their balance sheets until next year and beyond… Source: Port Strategy, December 18, 2009;
Engineering consultancy DHV has won the contract to improve the navigability on 250 kilometers of the Mekong river in Vietnam… Source: New Civil Engineer, December 16, 2009
Two UK scientists and a Franco-British partnership have been awarded euros5m to find safe disposal methods for dredged marine sediments. Laurence Hopkinson and Kevin Stone from the University of Brighton’s School of Environment and Technology… Source: Maritime Global Net, December 14, 2009;
DREDGING work on the second Tyne Tunnel is set to be finished this week… Source: The Shields Gazette, December 14, 2009;
Construction has begun of a new ‘heavy lift’ inland port costing about €32m at Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal, the world’s busiest manmade waterway, linking the Baltic and the North Sea… Source: Maritime Journal, December 9, 2009
AMSTERDAM – A majority of shareholders in Royal Boskalis Westminster NV Monday gave the green light for a share issue, which the Dutch dredging company will use to partly finance the takeover of Smit Internationale NV… Source: Morning Star, December 7, 2009
