The contract value: $10 121 000 The work consists of furnishing all plant, labor, materials and equipment, and constructing the Upper Yazoo Projects… [mappress] Source:fbogov,March 10,2010
A consortium-led by China Merchant Holdings may construct a new deepwater container terminal for Sri Lanka Ports Authority for which negotiations are in final stages, according to a report by Port Technology… [mappress] Source:commodityonline,March 10,2010;
An engineering firm announced Tuesday that it has found no “show stoppers” preventing dredging of the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir, which comes as music to the ears of those who say dredging should be included in the current water supply plan… [mappress] Source:dailyprogress,March 10,2010;
Levels of PCB contamination in the Hudson River are far greater than first estimated and General Electric’s dredging operation must improve before the next phase of the toxic cleanup starts in 2011, according to a new report from federal regulators… [mappress] Source:lohud,March 10,2010;
NEW DELHI: In what could be a setback for the government’s ambitious development goals, a latest audit finding reveals that investments in large infrastructure projects, many of them in the public private partnership (PPP), have failed to take off, getting stuck in bureaucratic hurdles… [mappress] S
The Centralia City Council Monday night voted to affirm the city’s funding commitment to the dredging project at Raccoon Lake… [mappress] Source:wjbdradio,March 10,2010;
China’s costliest water transport project, a shipping channel dredging program to boost trade in the Yangtze River Delta area, is due to be completed in the middle of this month, a senior official with the Ministry of Transport said Tuesday… [mappress] Source:people,March 9,2010;
Work to backfill the new Tyne Tunnel, which was submerged in the river last month, is due to get under way… [mappress] Source:bbc,March 9,2010;
The Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday (today) with Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Syed Naveed Qamar, in the chair will allow the Ministry of Ports and Shipping to hire a dredging firm to deepen and widen Port Qasim navigation c
The R4 billion project to widen and deepen the Port of Durban entrance channel is just about complete, apart from a few finishing touches. Transnet Projects held a roadshow to ‘show off’ what has been done during which the dredger Pallieter and two harbour tugs provided a ‘water ballet’… [mappress]
General Electric Co. on Monday proposed a halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup… [mappress] Source:ap,March 9,2010;
Sea level rise creates new business opportunity and “green jobs” that we’ll see more of, borne from the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise. The first floating island has just been commissioned this week by the sinking island nation of the Maldives, from Dutch Docklands… [mappress] Source:
The minister of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), Javier Flores Galarza, along with the minister of the Presidency, Rodrigo Arias Sánchez, visited the regions of Ortega and Bolsón of Santa Cruz, Guanacaste,in order to observe the lower bank of the Tempisque river… [mappress] Source:insidecostarica,Ma
The folks at Dole are looking forward to the day when a deeper shipping channel on the Delaware River might allow them to bring in their fruit in bigger ships… [mappress] Source:delawareonline,March 7,2010;