HUNDREDS of construction workers on the $43 billion Gorgon gas project will live on a luxury Norwegian cruise ship anchored off Barrow Island… Source: PerthNow, November 28, 2009;
As part of the project Port Baltic Iron and Steel Terminal has begun construction of 1st phase of the terminal in the commercial port of Ust-Luga, Leningrad region… Source: SteelGuru, November 28, 2009
American Marine Co. is waiting for permit approval to dredge Kíkíaola Harbor. Work could resume as soon as Monday… Source: Honolulu Advertiser, November 28, 2009;
China Merchant Holdings has virtually by-passed its local partner the Aitken Spence for the first terminal of the new Colombo South Harbour and has unilaterally enhanced its financial bid all round in recent days… Source: The Nation, November 29, 2009
FREEPORT — Containers of sediment soon will connect Freeport with a Civil War-era gunboat sunken 146 years ago in Galveston Bay… Source: The Facts, November 29, 2009;
Nearly 28 years after Congress authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to deepen the Delaware River’s main shipping channel, the only thing about the project that has deepened is the controversy… Read More: Delaware Online
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said the 5 million tonnes (mt) per year liquefied natural gas terminal at Dabhol has achieved mechanical completion and is likely to be commissioned in the fourth quarter… Source: DNA, November 27, 2009;
The quantity dredged is about 4 million cubic metres and the contract value is about Rs.29.7 crores… Source: The Hindu, November 28, 2009
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s Environmental Protection Department (EPD) and the Offshore Projects Division of the Saudi Aramco’s Northern Area Projects Department (OPD/NAPD) have sponsored a coral relocation project in the Arabian Gulf… Source: Offshore, November 25, 2009;
The government of Maldives has obtained a loan of 34.5 million Euro from a Dutch bank to develop harbors in three islands… Source: Miadhu News, November 26, 2009
Global Real Estate Development Company (Gredco), a Bahraini developer, has invited companies to bid in early December for major dredging works… Source: MEED, November 26, 2009/GREDCO
According to MEED (Middle East Business Intelligence) Bahrain’s local real estate developer Manara Developments has awarded US-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company an estimated BD10m ($26m) contract… Source: MEED, November 24, 2009 / Gulf Daily News, June 29, 2oo9
Wrightsville Beach could get sand in its stocking this Christmas… Source: Lumina News, November 25, 2009
The dredging of Melbourne’s shipping channels will continue for another six months and return every five years despite the controversial project being declared complete… Source: Herald Sun, November 25, 2009;