Essar Ports Ltd. today announced its audited results for the financial year 2013-14 and for quarter ended March 2014. Mr. Rajiv Agarwal, Managing Director, Essar Ports Ltd. said: “We have started receiving many pending approvals which will ensure early commissioning of our pending projects. With the
The Nigerian Ports Authority said it will continue the dredging of Nigerian waterways to enable more big vessels to call at the nation’s ports. The Managing Director of NPA, Mallam Habib Abdullahi, disclosed this during the inaugural call of West Africa Maximum (MAFWAS) to Onne Port in Rivers State.
Nearly 40 years after he first began sharing the beauty of Bimini’s coral reefs luring divers from around the world to the tiny island in the northern Bahamas, one of the most respected names in the world of undersea adventure yesterday issued a warning that Bimini was on the verge of a ‘pending cat
Approximately 15,000 cubic yards of unclassified material will be dredged soon from the United States Coast Guard Tradd Street Pier in Charleston, South Carolina. The total value of the project is between $1 million and $5 million, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, recently completed the maintenance dredging of nearly 680,000 cubic yards of sand from the Jones Inlet Federal Navigation Channel in Nassau County, to a depth of more than 14 feet. The channel, approximately 2.3 miles long, separates Point Lookout
Chatham Rock Phosphate yesterday submitted its formal marine consent application to the Environmental Protection Authority. Should it be accepted as complete, the six-month formal process is expected to lead to a decision in November. The application, representing four years’ work and $25 million in
IHC Merwede has commissioned a prestigious new jubilee book, entitled 70 years IHC Merwede. The first copy of this publication was presented to the mayor of Rotterdam, Mr Ahmed Aboutaleb, at the city’s Maritime Museum. Written by maritime historian Dr Joke Korteweg, this unique and beautifully desig
Two Post Panamax Cranes are on their way to Port Freeport. The Gantry cranes, departed from Shanghai on May 7, are expected to arrive at Port Freeport by the end of July, Executive Port Director/CEO Glenn Carlson said. Being approximately 80 feet wide each, both cranes will occupy a portion of Berth
Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the ruler representative of the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, has recently visited a number of the Western Region development projects. He also met with officials from Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) at Marfa Port, which lies north of Marfa city in Al Ghar
U.S. Senators Thad Cochran, R-Miss., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said that a House-Senate agreement on a new water resources bill would benefit Mississippi’s flood-control projects and modernize many of the state’s ports and waterways. The deal is likely to be voted on by the House and Senate as earl
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, the County of Santa Barbara and the City of Santa Maria will host a Santa Maria River Levee Improvement Project Completion Ceremony tomorrow. This event signals the end of the six year long construction project to repair the levee. The ceremony
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, plans to repair the Bearskin Neck Jetty in Rockport Harbor in Rockport, Massachusetts, beginning in October 2014 and extending over a 5 to 6 month period. The work of this project consists of repairing the 540-foot-long jetty that was damaged d
HYPACK Inc, one of the leading Hydrographic Surveying Software Companies in the world, has introduced its new Real Time Point Cloud, an upgrade to the HYPACK®2014. The new program runs in conjunction with HYSWEEP® SURVEY and displays both multibeam and topographic laser data in a corrected and geo-r
Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez said that the Dagupan rivers dredging scheme will start soon. Fernandez made the assurance after noting that some sectors have expressed impatience after dredging works has yet to commence despite the fact that three modern dredging machines are already in the city