GREEN BAY – More than $12.5 million in state grants will be used to improve ports and add jobs in Green Bay and Manitowoc… [mappress] Source:fox11online,March 7,2010;
Russian investors would like to develop a coal terminal at Liepaja Port, according to the newspaper Bizness&Baltija. The planned investment is from EUR 50 to 100 million (LVL 35-70 million), but the time period for the implementation of the project has not been revealed… [mappress] Source: The Balti
A BOOZY sea captain who was drunk in charge of a ship on the Tyne has been fined… [mappress] Source: The Shields Gazette, March 5, 2010;
The hearing for a Port of Tauranga resource management consent application to dredge existing shipping channels in Tauranga Harbour begins in Tauranga on Monday 8 March… [mappress] Source:scoop,March 5,2010;
Cebu can accommodate bigger ships once the dredging project of the Cebu Ports Authority is completed in nine months’ time… [mappress] Source:globalnation,March 5,2010;
A council is being asked to back a masterplan for regeneration of a town after its ferry port moves out… [mappress] Source:news.bbc,March 5,2010;
It cost $500,000 and was finished only last month, but the newly-dredged Brisbane Water channel near Ettalong Beach is already silting up again… [mappress] Source: Press Advocate, March 5, 2010
Two years of work on bolstering flood defences on the East Frisian island of Baltrum have ended with German authorities saying the €9m project has now closed the last gap in the North Sea island’s coastal protection network… [mappress] Source: Maritime Journal, March 4, 2010
Premier Colin Barnett has unveiled plans for a new deepwater port in the Pilbara that would be operating by 2015… [mappress] Source: The West Australian, March 4, 2010
THE $27.8 million Albany Waterfront project is well on track with the protective outer breakwater already finished… [mappress] Source:albany,March 4,2010;
Local group says dredging of the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir can proceed with no additional cost… [mappress] Source:wina,March 4,2010;
OCEAN CITY – After a month of weather delays, a $17 million beach replenishment project in Ocean City is finally moving ahead, a town official said yesterday… [mappress] Source:philly,March 4,2010;
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH – Working around the clock has paid off for the Army Corps of Engineers’ sand dredging project at Wrightsville Beach. The project is done a week ahead of schedule… [mappress] Source:news14,March 4,2010
The use of larger vessels, construction of new ports, an increased focus on coastal shipping, inland transportation and government support are likely to drive demand for both capital and maintenance dredging… [mappress] Source: Money Life, March 3, 2010;