AVALON CONDITIONS WORSE THAN EXPECTED… Source: Shore News Today, November 18, 2009;
Europe’s largest energy project, Nord Stream, this month received vital approvals from Sweden and Finland when they gave their OKs for the twin underwater pipelines to pass through their exclusive economic zones in the Baltic Sea… Source: ENR, November 18, 2009;
TEXAS CITY — A New Jersey-based marine construction firm was awarded a $61.8 million contract Wednesday to deepen the Texas City Ship Channel… Source: The Galveston Daily News, November 19, 2009;
HARVEY CEDARS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and contractor Weeks Marine dumped the first load of sand Tuesday morning on the borough’s 86th Street beach, marking the beginning of the long-awaited beach-replenishment project… Source: Press of Atalantic City, November 17, 2009;
The Premier has disclosed further details on the $60 million cruise ship dock, saying “a slew of contract variations caused the project to escalate”… Source: The Royal Gazette, November 18, 2009;
Companies in Argentina have started building a key natural gas pipeline to connect two areas near the Straits of Magellan in southern Argentina, the gas regulator, Enargas, said in a statement Sunday… Source: Downstream Today, November 16, 2009
More than 430 TVA employees and contractors are working around the clock to fill and ship more than 85 rail cars a day of sludgy coal ash from the Kingston Fossil Plant spill, TVA officials said Monday… Source: Chattanooga Times, November 17, 2009
The United States Army Corps of Engineers awarded King Fisher Marine Service, LP, Port Lavaca, Texas, on Nov. 16, 2009 with a $8,937,945 firm-fixed-price contract… Source: DefPro, November 17, 2009;
Waves carrying sand back to shore; federal emergency help expected… Source: Delaware Online, November 17, 2009;
The foundation stone of the much-talked-about Sonadia deep-sea port will be laid in December 2010… Source: The New Nation, November 17, 2009
The area around the pier is dredged to make it deep enough for the 220,000-tonne cruise ships it has been designed to berth. Sand will be stored on the land next to Dr. A.C. Wathey Cruise and Cargo Facilities until it is trucked to Pond Island or funnelled via a pipeline to Great Salt Pond […
RESON has been awarded a contract by the South African-based Marine GeoSolutions to upgrade their SeaBat 8101 to the new and more advanced SeaBat 7101 multibeam sonar system… Source: Oil Online, November 13, 2009
Glimmer of hope for Haldia port – After months of hampered operations, there is now an official assurance that the floundering Haldia Dock Complex (HDC), West Bengal’s only facility capable of handing large vessels… Source: The Business Standard, November 16, 2009;
A decades-long dispute about whether to dig a deeper shipping channel in the Delaware River has centered on both environmental and economic concerns… Source: The Star-Ledger, November 16, 2009;