BNP Secretary General and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan on Tuesday said government has taken up a plan for dredging of rivers to encourage river route business and trade, reports BSS. He said as part of this programme dredging of rivers has started in various parts of the count
A new effort is underway to make it possible for much larger ships to move through Wilmington. Maintenance dredging could begin on the Cape Fear River as early as next fall. This is all part of the $500 million Wilmington Harbor Project.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will end dredging and maintenance of harbors with annual commerce of less than a million tons if President George Bush’s funding proposal stands. The president has proposed cutting a half billion dollars from the corps’ current $4.71 billion budget, leaving $4.21 bil
Bluewater has been awarded a contract to supply a Soft Yoke Tower Mooring System (SYMS) for the Bohai Development Project located in Bohai Bay. The partners in the field development are ConocoPhillips China Inc. (Operator) and CNOOC, one of China’s national oil companies. The production facilities f
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South Korea will embark on a plan this month to develop a maritime observation satellite capable of providing data on waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula, reported South Korean Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. The envisioned geostationary satellite will be jointly designed and constructed by the K
The VO70 Telefonica MoviStar, on the second part of her ocean training schedule for the Volvo Ocean Race, rounded Cape Horn last Friday. In just two weeks, she has sailed the 4,300 miles separating Wellington from the southernmost tip of the American continent, going from the Pacific Ocean to the At
India’s petroleum exports recorded a 24.9 percent rise during April-February 2004-05 compared to the same period in the previous year. “While 12.93 million tonnes of petroleum products were exported during the first 11 months of 2003-04, the export during the same period of 2004-05 amounted to 16.14
Thailand has shelved its ambitious $7.3 billion plan for an oil “land bridge” after the Dec. 26 tsunami made potential investors question its safety and viability, a senior Energy Ministry official said on Tuesday. “Tsunami risks around where the sea ports would be built have been raised and we need
Australia’s largest air and sea operation targeting illegal fishing has netted 27 Indonesian boats carrying 240 crew in the past week off the country’s north coast, Fisheries Minister Ian Macdonald said on Wednesday. The nine-day “Operation Clearwater” uncovered organized large-scale illegal fishing
The world’s biggest iceberg has hit the end of an Antarctic glacier, snapping off a block about 5 square kilometers (3 square miles), a New Zealand scientist said Wednesday. The giant iceberg, known as B15A, ran into the tip of the Drygalski Ice Tongue in “more of a nudge than a collision,” said Lou
For the last several years, freight deliveries by tanker have tripled on average. More than $5 billion were spent on shipping Russian oil by tanker in 2004. But Russian oil companies are still less than enthusiastic about entering the shipping business. A proposed law approved by the administration
The Federal Government is under pressure to spend an extra $100 million on securing Australia’s ports. A new report released today by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute also calls for a specialised police force to patrol ports and greater security checks on foreign crews. The study on the ter
The demand for barges is set to increase in the coming years when steel-hulled vessels will replace wooden dhows, said a leading exhibitor taking part in the Gulf Maritime 2005 exhibition at Expo Centre Sharjah.
