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Angle's Mark Mason called to stricken dredger off St Anne's Head
(Western Telegraph) Angle's all weather lifeboat, the Mark Mason, was called out for the first time this year on Friday, when she was involved in a five hour rescue off the South Pembrokeshire coast. The lifeboat, which has just returned to Angle after maintenance work at RNLI headquarters, was launched to the aid of a Dutch dredger which was taking in water. The 65-metre, 949 tonne hopper dredger, Heron, had ...read full story...
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Interest shown in dredging project
(NewBurryPortNews) PLUM ISLAND — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open bids next Monday on a long-awaited project of beach re-nourishment at Plum Island and Salisbury. Contractors' interest in bidding for the project is difficult to gauge precisely, but 10 companies sent representatives to a pre-bid conference last month at the Army Corps New England District office in Concord, according to the ...read full story...
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Proposed iron ore terminal garners much interest in India
(Sea Trade Asia Online) Mubai Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) is planning to build an iron ore terminal west of its breakwater and has received 14 bids from companies keen to get involved in the project. ‘We are employing the PPP (public-private partnership) model for the proposed terminal, which is the single largest project we have ever undertaken at the port,' said MPT chairman Praveen Agarwal.
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Project: Tangier a leading yachting marina in the Mediterranean
(MoroccoBoard) A project for an overhaul of the port in the city of Tangier is in the offing. The plan hopes to transform Tangier into a leading yachting marina in the Mediterranean. Many changes are expected to give back to Tangier a leading place among Mediterranean cities by 2011. "This major project, which will begin construction in 2011 - will make the port of Tangier and its bay one of the first marinas ...readf full story...
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CCA Texas plants new marsh at Goose Island
(RockPortPilot) The Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) Texas recently completed a marsh planting project at Goose Island State Park. “It is designed to greatly minimize wetland loss and shoreline erosion,” said park superintendent Stormy Reeves. The project was made possible by a $25,000 donation by CCA Texas which enabled the planting of 10,000 salt-tolerant plants native to coastal marshes of ...read full story...
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Dredging Service Sought for Harbours
(Isle of Man) The Department of Transport is inviting tenders from companies interested in providing a dredging service for Douglas and Peel harbours. Dredging or levelling of all harbours is necessary on an ongoing basis to maintain an effective and safe depth for the operation of berths. Director of Harbours Michael Brew explains, "In those harbours where access can be gained at low water, dredging is ...read full story...
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Dredge spoils bill heads to governor's desk
(TDN) State lawmakers have approved a bill eliminating fees for Mount St. Helens dredge sand, the bill's sponsor, Rep. Dean Takko, D-Longview, said Monday. The bill now goes to Gov. Chris Gregoire. Under House Bill 2598, landowners who receive sand dredged from the Toutle, Cowlitz and Coweeman rivers within the next 25 years no longer would pay royalties if they resell the material. Landowners also ...read full story...
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New Jersey lawmakers continue dredging fight as project begins
(NJ) NATIONAL PARK As the first bits of sediment and rock were being scraped off the bottom of the Delaware River 32 miles south of here Monday, three of New Jersey's top political leaders pledged their support to make sure deepening of the channel never comes to fruition. It all came on a busy day on which the state filed litigation to seek to block the project. "This plan makes no sense," Gov. Chris Christie ...read full story...
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Govt buying 3 dredgers after gap of 35 years
(bdnews24.com) – The government is set to purchase three dredgers, the first in over three decades, for critical maintenance of river navigability, shipping minister Shajahan Khan told parliament on Monday. To a question by Comilla-8 MP Nasimul Alam Chowdhury, he said the government is procuring three dredgers "soon". Another 17 dredgers will be procured by 2015, he added. They will be the first dredgers to be purchased in ...read full story...
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Wärtsilä delivers engines to Polar Supply and Research Vessel
 Wärtsilä has signed a contract with the STX Finland Oy shipyard in Rauma, Finland, to deliver four Wärtsilä 32 engines for a Polar Supply and Research Vessel. The Owner of the vessel will be the Republic of South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs, and it will be operated by SMIT Amandla Marine, of South Africa. The vessel’s crew will be trained at the Wärtsilä Land and Sea Academy in Turku, Finland.
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CHEC registers record revenues |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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(People.com.cn) Despite an industry downturn worldwide, port building contractor China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd (CHEC) had record revenues of $1.89 billion last year and signed new contracts worth $4.49 billion. As growth slowed due to the global economic crisis, CHEC responded by reorganizing its resources and moving into new sectors. Shrinking infrastructure markets in the Middle East and ...read full story... |
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GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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(Business Week) General Electric Co. on Monday proposed halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup. GE made the proposal as the company and the federal Environmental Protection Agency were set to release separate reports assessing the dredging in 2009 of PCB "hot spots" north of ...read full story... |
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Wind power boost with new jack-up vessels |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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(Cranes Today) RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of German utility company RWE, is to take delivery of two new jack-up crane vessels for the installation of offshore wind farm foundations and turbines. The two vessels are to be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd, and will be based on a design by Finnish firm Wärtsilä Corporation and Germany’s IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH. Tailored specifically for ...read full story... |
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New multibeam attracts forward thinking |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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(BYM) Kongsberg Maritime announces during Oceanology International 2010 that one of the first customers to order its cutting-edge 4th generation multibeam echosounder, the EM2040, is Dutch survey company Geoplus BV. The order for the EM 2040, which is the world's only true wide band high resolution multibeam, was taken by Kongsberg Maritime's Dutch subsidiary Kongsberg Maritime BV. The new multibeam is ...read full story... |
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Why FG Embarked On N19 Billion Shoreline Project |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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(All Africa) Minister of Environment Mr. John Odey has said that the proposed dredging of the creeks and channels in the Niger Delta without environmental Impact Assessment is considered dangerous as it will submerged the communities if solid embankment to protect the shores is not put in place. The Minister was speaking at a stakeholders forum tagged "Development of a low carbon economy and ...read full story... |
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GE, EPA disagree on river dredging future |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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(TimesUnion) ALBANY -- General Electric Co. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are pushing for very different approaches to continued dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River. GE wants to limit dredging to reduce the amount of PCBs that get stirred up, and cap over more of the river bottom where relatively small amounts of PCBs are difficult to reach. But EPA believes that the ...read full story... |
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Gas pipeline probe uncovers shipwrecks in Baltic Sea |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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(YahooNews) STOCKHOLM (AFP) – A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks, some of them believed to be up to 1,000 years old, were discovered in the Baltic Sea during a probe of the sea bed to prepare for the installation of a large gas pipeline, the Swedish National Heritage Board said Monday. "We have manage to identify 12 shipwrecks, and nine of them are considered to be fairly old," Peter Norman, a ..read full story... |
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Huge river dredger to backfill new Tyne Tunnel |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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(BBC NEWS) Work to backfill the new Tyne Tunnel, which was submerged in the river last month, is due to get under way. Four concrete tubes have been lowered into a trench in the riverbed, and will now be filled with material collected during routine dredging. The 390ft (120m) dredger Alexander von Humboldt will gather the material from the mouth of the Tyne and deposit it via pipeline. The work ...read full story... |
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Giants Of The Shipping World Combine To Test Biodiesel |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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(Handy Shipping Guide) UK / DENMARK / NETHERLANDS – Two of the most renowned names in the shipping industry, Maersk and Lloyd's Register, are cooperating with the Dutch government and a number of specialist contractors to run a trial on the use of biodiesel fuel in marine engines. The trials aim to explore the problems that could be encountered by vessels using the FAME (fatty acid methyl esters) fuel ...read full story... |
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Yangtze delta dredging program to be completed this month |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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(People's Daily Online) China's costliest water transport project, a shipping channel dredging program to boost trade in the Yangtze River Delta area, is due to be completed in the middle of this month, a senior official with the Ministry of Transport said Tuesday. The 12-year program, with a total cost of 15 billion yuan (2.42 billion U.S. dollars), involved a 92.2-km-long, 300-meter-wide shipping channel. The channel starts ...read full story.. |
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Port Qasim: ECC to allow shipping ministry hire dredging firm |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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(Business Recorder) ISLAMABAD (March 09 2010): The Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday (today) with Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Syed Naveed Qamar, in the chair will allow the Ministry of Ports and Shipping to hire a dredging firm to deepen and widen Port Qasim navigation channel. Official summary obtained from the Cabinet ...read full story... |
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New Pilbara iron-ore port development to cost A$2,1bn |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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(miningweekly.com) PERTH – A new 50-million ton a year development at Port Hedland to cater for the shipping needs of the North West Iron Ore Alliance (NWIOA) could be operational in 2013 and would cost A$2,1-billion, a prefeasibility study has found. NWIOA – a group promoting the junior iron-ore sector in Pilbara – on Monday reported that the study had found that port development project would be capable ...read full story... |
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