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Duxbury: Public comment period opens for proposed dredging project
(959watd) A proposed dredge of the Duxbury Harbor would remove an estimated 135 thousand cubic yards of sandy and silty material from Duxbury Bay. “The United States Army Corp. of Engineers is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Duxbury Harbor Federal Navigational Project in Duxbury, Mass.,” said New England District spokesman Tim Dugan. Dugan says the proposed ...read full story...
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Recruiting fresh talent for the dredging industry
Within the maritime infrastructure industry, the companies that comprise the International Association of Dredging Companies are known for their high-levels of expertise. But outside the industry dredging in general is often little known and undervalued. Important progress is being made to communicate the dynamism of the dredging sector to a new generation and to underscore how essential dredging is to improve a country’s socioeconomic well-being and living standards.
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Important Australian contract
(Van Oord) Rotterdam, the Netherlands – 3rd September 2010 – Van Oord was recently awarded the dredging works for the Cape Lambert Port B Project by Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd. The project comprises the construction of a new port facility adjacent to the existing Cape Lambert Port facility in Western Australia.
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Offshore firm IHC hopes for return to profit
(nebusiness) Offshore engineering specialist IHC Engineering Business (EB) is “absolutely” confident of being back in profit this year after investment in new technology and the opening of a new site pushed it into the red. Figures just published by the Northumberland-based business show it made a pre-tax loss of £2.8m in the 12 months to September 30 last year, compared with a £2m profit in ...read full story...
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Flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes launched
(Van Oord) On 20 August 2010, flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes was launched at the CIMC Raffles yard in Yantai, China. A naming ceremony will be held at a later date. Final building operations will be conducted at the same yard. The ship is scheduled for completion in 2011 after which it will be operational on the offshore market.
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Orion Marine Group Announces the Christening of its Newest Dredge
(GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Orion Marine Group, a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, today announced the christening of its newest dredge the Linda LaQuay. Orion Marine Group will christen the dredge Linda LaQuay Friday morning, August 27, 2010, in its new north yard in Port Lavaca, TX. The dredge Linda LaQuay, is a 24" cutter suction dredge with the capability of dredging depths up ..read full story...
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Sand berm defense gets $60 million financing installment
(Nola) Louisiana received its third $60 million check from BP on Tuesday to pay a share of the cost of building berms along barrier islands, and the state's coastal czar again defended the controversial use of sand as an effective tool in capturing oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...read full story...
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Jan De Nul is awarded the Pacific Entrance North Access channel works
 On Monday August 16th Jan De Nul NV was awarded one of the last large tenders for the Panama Canal Expansion. Jan De Nul is already very active in Panama and is a.o. working on the construction of the new locks on the Panama Canal, one of the most prestigious infrastructure works in the world.
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ECNEC gives nod to dredging scheme under $ 1b Indian loan
(Thefinancialexpress-bd) he government Tuesday approved a project under the much-talked-about one-billion-dollar Indian credit aiming to procure dredgers for improving river draught on the Kolkata-Ashunganj water route to facilitate transshipment. The government's highest body on project approval -ECNEC-also endorsed the cross-border power transmission grid scheme, which would be ...read full story...
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Manila lawmaker probes Belgian dredger
(Allvoices) MANILA, Philippines- A militant lawmaker wants a Belgian dredging firm to be investigated on the controversial 3-million dredging contract in Laguna Lake. Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano last week filed House Resolution No.203 directing the House Committees on Oversight and Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources to conduct an investigation on the P 18.7 billion loan agreement between the ...read full story...
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Pact with Liberia for infrastructure to export iron ore |
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
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(SteelGuru) Vale announces that VBG, Vale BSGR Limited, Vale's JV with BSG Resources Ltd, entered into an agreement with the government of the Republic of Liberia setting forth the main terms and conditions to be included in a definitive agreement upon which a Liberian subsidiary of Vale BSGR shall implement an infrastructure project in Liberia comprising principally the development, financing, operation, maintenance ...read full story... |
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Maputo port could see $800m in investment |
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Friday, 20 August 2010 |
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(Engineering News) The port of Maputo, in Mozambique, would see an estimated investment of around $800-million over the next five years, said Grindrod Freight Services CE Dave Rennie on Thursday. JSE-listed shipping and freight services specialist Grindrod would be responsible for roughly 40% of this figure as the company grew its capacity at the thriving harbour node, he added. “There is a huge ...read full story... |
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Rio Tinto to fast-track African project: Simandou |
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 |
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(The Australian) RIO Tinto has announced plans to speed up development of its massive Simandou iron ore project. The news comes a week after signing a $US1.3 billion ($1.42bn) deal with Chinese giant Chinalco. Rio said yesterday it had approved $US170 million of further funding for the mine, rail and port infrastructure. Simandou will be the largest integrated iron ore mine and infrastructure ...read full story... |
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Mozambqiue commences dredging of Beira port |
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Monday, 02 August 2010 |
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APA-Maputo (Mozambqiue) Dredging of the central Mozambican seaport of Beira in Sofala province to allow ships of up to 60, 000 tons into the port has commenced, the company managing the port Emodraga said here on Sunday. Currently, the port receives ships of up to 30, 000 tons due to sedimentation of the port area. The work is budgeted at 43 million Euros and the dredging will take 14 months and a Dutch ...read full story... |
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Work resumes on N8b Nworie dredging project |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 |
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(234Next) Dredging of the N7.8 billion Nworie River project in Owerri, has resumed after many months of inactivity at the site. Work resumed at the site following the repairs of one of the dredging equipment which was grounded at Assumpta Cathedral, Owerri, the site of the project. The project is being executed by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in partnership with the Imo government. An engineer with RUODO Nigeria ...read full story... |
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UK firm to build, manage N52.5bn Calabar Energy City |
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Monday, 28 June 2010 |
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(businessdayonline) With Port Harcourt (Rivers State) still beleaguered by funding constraint for its long proposed energy city, Calabar (Cross River State) has blazed-off with own energy city at the cost of $350 million (N52.5 billion) with construction starting December this year. Port Evolution Management (Port Evo), UK, on Thursday received the contract to build and manage the Cross River State’s $350 million (N52.5 billion) Calabar ...read full story... |
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Chinese company completes first berth of Egyptian port project |
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
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(Xinhua News Agency) -- The first berth of the second phase project of Egypt's Port Said East Container Terminal has been completed, the Chinese builder said Wednesday. The delivery of the first berth as scheduled shows the construction has been going well, said Gao Hongbin, the manager of China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd's project management office. The 219 million U.S. dollar project is a 1,200-meter-long ...read full story... |
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Beira Port Dredging to Start in July |
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Monday, 14 June 2010 |
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(All Africa) Maputo — Mozambique's publicly owned ports and rail company, CFM, has announced that the emergency dredging of the access channel to the port of Beira, the berths and the turning basins, as well as land reclamation work for the future Beira coal terminal, will begin in July. According to a CFM press release published on Friday, this work is budgeted at about 43 million euros (52 million US dollars). Of this, 23 million ...read full story... |
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N6bn shoreline project: Contractor denies fraudulent act |
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
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(The Punch) The contractor handling the Ayetoro shoreline protection project in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, Messrs Dredging Atlantic Company, has denied allegations of sharp practices levelled against it by some groups in the area. The firm, in a statement by its spokesperson, Alhaji Mohammed Umoru, on Monday, said the allegation was “an attempt to dent the company’s image and cause ...read full story... |
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Port of Maputo, Mozambique, has 20-year development plan |
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Monday, 07 June 2010 |
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(Macauhub) Maputo, Mozambique, 2 June – The plan for development of the port of Maputo outlines investment of US$750 million in projects such as dredging of the access channel and respective anchorage and other interventions, according to Mozambican newspaper Notícias. The daily paper added that the general framework of the plan, outlined for the next 20 years, was presented last week in ...read full story... |
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