HUE — The dredging of Hue’s Phat Lat Canal, which has been blocked for years by debris, will help improve the flow of An Cuu and Nhu Y rivers… Source: VNS, December 30, 2009;
The Maryland Port Administration has ceased dumping sediment dredged from Baltimore’s harbor at Hart-Miller Island… Source: Baltimore Business Journal, December 29, 2009; [mappress]
The Gloucester County Improvement Authority is planning another Delaware River port just three miles from the newly created Port of Paulsboro, where major construction has not yet begun… Source:nj.com,December 29,2009; [mappress]
The central government seems to be in no hurry when it comes to capacity addition in the ports sector for the current five year plan even as the top offices have been pushing for more pro-active action in roads and highways and power… Source:indianexpress,December,30,2009; [mappress]
NEW ORLEANS — With the recession showing signs of ebbing, Gulf of Mexico ports hope hundreds of millions of dollars in expansion projects proposed before the downturn will help them capture more trade as the world economy recovers… Source:latimes,December 29,2009 [mappress]
Marina waste will be dumped on the continental shelf near Great Barrier Island in a trial given the go-ahead by Maritime New Zealand… Source: The New Zealand Herald, December 28, 2009; [mappress]
Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company (Adgas) on Mondaysigned an agreement for a $1 billion (Dh3.67 billion) project with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co for the engineering, procurement and construction of an integrated gas development plant on Abu Dhabi’s Das Island… Source:g
Chinese engineering contractor Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600583) will build a large deepwater maritime engineering base in Zhuhai, a southern Chinese city, enhancing its deepwater oil and gas exploitation capacity and enabling it to gain more deepwater resources in South China Sea… S
NEALE Hollier believes as much as $100 million each year floats past the Gold Coast and is buoying the economies of other towns and cities because of the state of the Broadwater… Source:goldcoast.com,December 29,2009 [mappress]
Mercator Lines, India’s third-largest shipping company by tonnage, has been attempting to diversify its activities in a bid to minimise impact of the cyclical nature of the global shipping industry. In the last two years, the company has made investments in offshore, dredging and coal mining activit
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]
Canals in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Munshiganj will soon become non-existent unless the authorities concerned immediately bring them under the ongoing river-saving drive, said district administration officials and environmentalists of the four districts… Source: The Daily Star, December 28, 20
Holiday Isle’s eroded beaches will not be restored with the sand now being dredged from Destin harbor, those involved in an all-day Dec. 21 mediation effort say… Source: Destinlog, December 25, 2009 [mappress]
OCEAN CITY — As one major storm passed over the town of Ocean City last weekend, resort officials were putting the finishing touches on plans to clean up the damage left behind from last month’s storm that hit Ocean City square in the face… Source:mdcoastdispatch,December 25,2009;