NEW DELHI: The government has removed cap on the number of players who can participate in financial bidding for port expansion projects under public private partnership (PPP) to minimise litigations and get better returns. [mappress] Source:,February 17,2010;
NEW ORLEANS — Port officials from Savannah, Ga., to Mobile, Ala., to Long Beach are moving full steam ahead to expand and modernize their ports. [mappress] Source: USA Today, February 17, 2010
FREMANTLE harbour dredging will be suspended for two months from May as key equipment is required for the $30b Gorgon gas development – delaying the project into Spring. [mappress] Source: Perth Now, February 17, 2010
Description of Work: – The work includes construction of breakwaters, an entrance channel and mooring basin… [mappress] More info: fbo.gov
MUMBAI: DP World, the world’s third-largest container terminal operator, will complete the first phase of the Rs 3,000-crore Vallarpadam terminal project in Kochi by June and is expected to commission it by this year-end. When the International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT)… [mappress] Sour
IT’S showtime at last after the longest, most hyped build-up in Essex industrial history. Eleven years have rolled by since plans for a giant new container port on the Essex shore of the Thames Estuary were first announced… [mappress] Source: Echo, February 16, 2010
ALBANY — A panel of independent experts this week will begin sorting out two massive technical reports on the first year of PCB dredging from the Hudson River to offer a possible road map for the project’s future. [mappress] Source: Times Union, February 16, 2010
SLUDGE-LIKE sediment containing lead, copper, chromium and mercury is washing up onto river-side rocks in East Fremantle, activists say. [mappress] Source: Perth Now, February 16, 2010
CHITTAGONG, Feb 15: After a lapse of over two decades the physical work of the capital dredging of the heavily silted areas of the River Karnaphuli is likely to begin this year. [mappress] Source: The Financial Express, February 16, 2010;
INDIALANTIC — An Illinois dredging company began to deliver the first new sand over the weekend in a $12.4 million project to widen Indialantic and Melbourne Beach… [mappress] Source:floridatoday,February 15,2010
US Amry Corps of engineers has launched a dredging tender to maintain Bayou Freshwater. [mappress] More info: fbo.gov;
While the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the Point at Emerald Isle gained beachfront. [mappress] Sourcecarolinacoastonline:,February 12,2010
Porto Novo, Cape Verde, 12 Feb – The first phase of refurbishment and expansion work on the port of Porto Novo is due to begin next May, the chief executive of national ports management company, Enapor, Jorge Pimenta Rodrigues said in Santo Antão. [mappress] Source: Macauhub, February 12, 2010;
Larry Penny, East Hampton’s director of natural resources, said on Tuesday that he was shocked during a Jan. 29 meeting when representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it would be at least three years before the Montauk Harbor Inlet and a portion of the harbor itself got the thorough d