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World's biggest Wave Hub installed off UK coast
(PhysOrg.com) A wave energy generation test site called the "Wave Hub" is being set up off Cornwall’s northern coast. The site is the first offshore wave energy site in the UK, and will allow four wave energy generator systems, with a total capacity of 20 MW, to be evaluated simultaneously. The $64 million project consists of a sub-station at Hayle in Cornwall, from which a cable has now been laid under the sand dunes and ...read full story...
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Dredging Begins In Mission Bay Channel
(kpbs.org) SAN DIEGO — Work will begin this week to begin dredging the Mission Bay Channel to make it safer for recreational and commercial boaters accessing the Pacific Ocean, it was announced today. The $5.3 million project, which is being overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was paid for through federal stimulus funding and will take about 30 days to complete, according to Mayor Jerry Sanders' office. "This dredging ...read full story...
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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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Dredging issues may delay Vallarpadam commissioning |
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 |
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(The Hindu Businessline) The inordinate delay in completing the capital dredging work for the Vallarpadam ICTT project may lead to the postponement of the soft launch of the project's operations scheduled for later this month by the terminal operator DP World. Informed sources in the port told Business Line that the terminal operator had made it clear to the port that there is no question of ...read full story... |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
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(Port Strategy) There’s no doubt many port and terminal operators were dismayed to find they had land reclamation contracts carefully poised on a set of assumptions that fell apart when the global economy changed overnight. However, APM Terminals Pipavav managed to pull off an impressive hat-trick despite having signed the contracts for the civil works just as the downturn bit. The project ...read full story... |
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India to triple port capacity |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 |
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(btimes.com.my) MUMBAI: India, Asia's third biggest economy, plans to triple port capacity within a decade as it tackles infrastructure deficiencies that threaten to damp growth. The country needs "urgent action" to ensure that it has sufficient seaport capacity, Secretary of Shipping K. Mohandas said in an interview last Wednesday in his office in New Delhi. "Ports are very important to India's economic growth." The government ...read full story... |
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Sri Lanka Opens First Phase of Hambantota Port |
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 |
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(Logisticsweek) Sri Lanka has begun the first phase of its $1.5bn Hambantota Port in the southern part of the country. The port, which has a capacity of 80,000t, will annually handle 2,500 ships in the first phase and expects to reach 20 million teu after the completion of its final phase. The first phase includes the construction of two breakwaters, the excavation of a basin area, the dredging of a 210m-wide ...read full story... |
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ECNEC gives nod to dredging scheme under $ 1b Indian loan |
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 |
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(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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Govt to okay dredging project under $1.0b Indian loan |
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Monday, 16 August 2010 |
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(thefinancialexpress-bd) The government is likely to approve a project under the one billion dollars' Indian credit today with an aim to procure dredgers for improving river draught on the Kolkata-Ashunganj water route to facilitate transshipment, officials said Monday. Planning ministry officials said it is also going to endorse the cross-border power transmission grid between Bangladesh's Bheramara and ...read full story... |
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Multicrore Vizhinjam project evokes interest |
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 |
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(Expressbuzz) THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Around 30 national and international firms have shown keen interest in partnering Kerala for the multi-crore Vizhinjam Multi-purpose Seaport project. The deadline for filing Expression of Interest (EoI) for the project ended on Thursday evening. Big Indian names in the list include Gammon, GMR, Reliance and Skil Infrastructure, sources said. International firms which filed EoIs include those from Belgian and ...read full story... |
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Cabinet body approves six proposals |
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Friday, 13 August 2010 |
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(thefinancialexpress-bd) Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase Thursday approved six proposals including dredging of Gorai river by a Chinese Company, reports UNB. Finance Minister AMA Muhith presided over the meeting at Cabinet Division attended by senior ministers. Meeting sources said the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) placed proposal of a 2-year Gorai river dredging project for improving ...read full story... |
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Sri Lanka - Expedite Colombo Port project – President tells officials |
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 |
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(isria) President Mahinda Rajapaksa noting the progress of the Colombo Port expansion project, advised relevant officials to expedite the ongoing construction work. He made these comments during an inspection tour yesterday (4 August) on the breakwater being constructed at the Colombo Port. The President also advised relevant parties to commence the construction work of the ...read full story... |
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Faulty breakwaters fail to reduce coastal erosion |
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 |
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(The Times of India) MANGALORE: The north and south breakwaters near old port here seem to have outlived their use after 16 long years. There is a move to redesign the breakwaters, constructed by the public works department, ostensibly due to its flaws, as the design is based on a mathematical model rather than a regular flow model. To talk of it, there's not much of breakwater left for the ...read full story... |
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