China has agreed to help finance a $8.7bn deep-sea port in Bangladesh, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said yesterday… [mappress] Source:gulftimes,March 23,2010;
Mangalore: The dredging work in Gurupur river near the estuary mouth off the Old Port here came to a standstill as the dredging machine broke down… [mappress] Source:mangaloreheadlines,March 23,2010;
FARGO, N.D. — The Red River Valley’s battle with major flooding for the second straight year has intensified the push for a solution that doesn’t rely on thousands of volunteers and millions of sandbags.Local governments say the best option is a massive 36-mile-long channel but the project’s $1.3 bi
The government has identified eight port development projects for award under the public private partnership (PPP) mode in 2010-2011. The projects are slated to bring in investment of around Rs 1,296 crore from the private sector. Taking this into account, the government would have to speed up the p
Dredging work has been finished on the first small section of the heavily polluted Grand Calumet River in northwestern Indiana… [mappress] Source:newstalk,March 23,2010;
RosMorPort announced an open prices request to choose an organization for the right to conclude a contract to perform maintenance dredging at the Taganrog approach channel and the approaches to the berths № 1-9 at port of Taganrog in 2010. According to the materials of the enterprise… [mappress] Sou
The province announced a project, worth VND 1.4 trillion (roughly US$ 74.2 million), to dredge the Truong Giang river for emergency flood drainage… [mappress] Source:nhandan,March 22,2010;
Everyone with a boat bigger than a tinnie reckons there’s nowhere to go, that the channels are terribly silted, and instead stay home and watch the footy with a beer in hand. But after many years of cruising the albeit not-so-broad Broadwater, we beg to differ. The points near Jumpinpin, the channel
Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) has invited companies to submit an expression of interest (EOI) for the construction of marine works at the New Port of Aqaba. The job is the first in a series that will help ensure the new port is ready by its 2013 deadline, the date by which the site of the [&he
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 March) – The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has earmarked an additional P75 million for the proposed expansion and upgrading of the terminal port in Glan town in Sarangani province within the next two years.Engr. Francisco Belimac Jr., PPA district manager… [mappr
Western Visayas is again a recipient of a billion-peso project from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo after the Investment Coordinating Committee (ICC) of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Board approved the inclusion of… [mappress] Source:thenewstoday,March 22,2010;
Hamburg Port Authority jury has just awarded Royal Haskoning first place in a competition to create a concept for the potential development of the port’s Steinwerder terminal… [mappress] Source:wnews,March 21,2010;
Amid its massive studies, technical jargon and propensity to take an interminably long time making decisions, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has offered a refreshing moment of clarity… [mappress] Source:poughkeepsiejournal,March 21,2010;
Nassau, Bahamas – An agreement uniting Government and a group of 20 private shipping interests under one port development umbrella and cementing the Arawak Cay container port contract could be signed in as little as six weeks with construction starting almost immediately and… [mappress] Source:theba