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Van Oord awarded for unique offshore project for Petrobras
The Dutcham Trade Award 2010-2011 is dedicated to Van Oord Offshore for best business achievement in Brazil. The trophy was assigned to the Dutch dredging company for their succesfull merits in the Brazilian offshore industry. At the ceremony on May 17 in São Paulo the jury of the Brasilian-Dutch Chamber of Commerce was unanimous in their decision to hand out the first price to Van Oord for their challenging ...read full story...
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Keeping the Dead Sea alive
(Jpost) The lowest point on earth promises to rise high on the controversy scale in coming months. The Dead Sea will spring raucously to life with the kickstarting of a dispute about who must foot the bill for keeping it healthy. The tourism and environmental protection ministers announced last Monday that the Dead Sea Works (owned by the Israel Corporation, in which the Ofer brothers hold the largest stake) will ...read full story...
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EUR 415 million Gladstone Dredging project awarded
Rotterdam / Zwijndrecht – 13 May 2011. Van Oord Australia Pty Ltd and Dredging International (Australia) Pty Ltd have been awarded the second contract for the Western Basin Main Works Dredging at the Port of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. This second contract signed on the 12th May 2011 with the Gladstone Ports Corporation involves the dredging of Parcels 1, 3 and 4 for the Western Basin Development. The value of ...read full story...
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Boskalis wins € 90 million worth of contracts in Nigeria
 Papendrecht - Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has recently been awarded a number of contracts in Nigeria with a total value of approximately € 90 million. The largest contract was awarded by Prodeco International Limited and involves dredging and reclamation works for the expansion of the Federal Lighter Terminal and the Federal Ocean Terminal in Onne Port, which is managed by Intels Nigeria Limited, a large logistic service supplier to the oil and gas industry.
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Work starts on Seaway dredging
(goldcoast) THE first step in opening the Broadwater to larger vessels should be completed by Christmas with work set to begin on removing 200,000 cubic metres of sand off the eastern end of the Gold Coast Seaway. Mayor Ron Clarke and Broadwater MP Peta-Kaye Croft this morning hailed the pilot dredging program, which will see the removed sand used to replenish several Gold Coast ...read full story...
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Classdiving & JDN Group Wishes Sierra Leone Happy 50th Jubilee
(news.sl) An Under-water Construction and Marine Constract Company, Classdiving in collaboration with a Belgium based Dredging and Marine Construction Company, Jan De Nul Group both operating in Sierra Leone wish the President, H.E. Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, Vice President Alhaji Samuel Sam Sumana and the people of Sierra Leone a prosperous and happy 50 Classdiving and Jan De Nul Group have been ...read full story...
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RM250m dredger launched
(btimes) Inai Kiara Sdn Bhd - a company in dredging, reclamation and marine-related construction industry - expects to build four more dredgers by end-2013, as it remains optimistic in the dredging outlook. "I believe that despite the uncertainty in the outlook of dredging volumes, to a certain degree, any decline in private infrastructure investments will be compensated by government infrastructure products embedded ...read full story...
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GE selects contractor to dredge PCBs from Hudson
(businessweek) General Electric Co. has awarded a dredging contract for the Hudson River to the company that did the work during the cleanup's test phase in 2009. GE announced Wednesday that it has selected Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Co. LLC, to perform environmental dredging in the upper river beginning in May. The massive cleanup project is expected to take five to seven ...read full story...
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What is dredging
(dvidshub) GALVESTON, Texas -- Dredging is essentially the underwater excavation of a channel. Throughout the year, sediments within the water column will settle and accumulate within the channel, a process that is known as shoaling. The shoaled material is removed to the authorized project depth (plus advance maintenance and allowable overdepth) to allow for safe navigation between dredging cycles, a process ...read full story...
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Bahrain starts work on $2.26m road project
(tradearabia) Bahrain Ministry of Works said it has started work on a new road project in Juffair area of the Kingdom at a cost of BD 853,600 ($2.26 million). The work on the 12.3 km road on Juffair block 324 involves land reclamation from the sea and rock armor slope protection for avenue 22, said Raed Al-Salah, director of Roads Projects and Maintenance.
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Powerful Dredger for Expansion Project Arrives at Panama Canal |
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Monday, 14 February 2011 |
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(blog.classiccruises.info) In yet another move to procure the best equipment for the expansion project, the D’Artagnan, the most powerful self-propelled heavy duty cutter suction dredger in the world, arrived at the Panama Canal January 11. Upon its arrival, the latest addition to the Panama Canal Authority’s (ACP) expansion dredging fleet then made its way to the Pacific entrance, which will ultimately link ...read full story... |
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Mexican ports to get $745m |
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011 |
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(portstrategy) Spending on port infrastructure in Mexico in 2012 will top $745m, revealed Juan Molinar, head of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. A significant part of this investment will come from the private sector. |
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On Caribbean coast, Moin port expansion underway |
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Friday, 21 January 2011 |
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(ticotimes) The first step in large-scale public works expansion project at Moín port on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast began last week, as Dutch company Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors BV set about removing sediment to enlarge the port’s docking area. The dredging project, the first of four major port modernization projects planned at Moín, is expected to cost $14 million and last ...read full story... |
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Nicaragua Adding Dredgers To Complete Canal |
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Monday, 17 January 2011 |
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(insidecostarica) Nicaragua is working at full speed to complete the dredging of the San Juan river and the construction of a canal, a situation which Costa Rica says is a serious risk of irreversible environmental damage to the area. According to the Nicaraguan daily, La Prensa, the government of Daniel Ortega hopes to have ready by February another three dredgers, bringing the total of machines in the area to 4. In an interview ...read full story... |
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Honduras Set to Modernize Central America Largest Port |
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Friday, 03 December 2010 |
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(hispanicallyspeakingnews) Honduras will expand and modernize Central America’s biggest port, the Puerto Cortes, with $135 million of loans from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Puerto Cortés is the main port of Honduras, handling almost 90% of maritime traffic. Located on the northeast coast of the country, on the Caribbean Sea, it is the biggest and deepest port in Central America handling a ...read full story... |
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Panama Canal expansion is progressing |
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Saturday, 27 November 2010 |
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(bestshippingnews) The expansion of Panama Canal joining the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans has been going on continuously since the work began 38 months ago. The expansion is to be completed in 2014. A key part of the canal expansion is the construction of floodgates in the Pacific and the Atlantic, which will allow the biggest ships to pass by the canal. The work is expected to be completed in 2012 and 2013. The new ...read full story... |
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Costa Rica gives green light for Nicaragua to dredge border river |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 |
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(ticotimes) Costa Rica will not block Nicaragua's plans to dredge the Río San Juan despite claiming that the project is severely underbudgeted and would reduce the flow of water in the river. Based on a July 2009 ruling, in which the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, examined the rights of both countries over the Río San Juan, Nicaragua has the right to dredge the river that marks the ...read full story... |
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Jan De Nul is awarded the Pacific Entrance North Access channel works |
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 |
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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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$30M fund to support dredging of water courses |
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Monday, 16 August 2010 |
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(newsday.co.tt) ONE DAY before the scheduled start of further river dredging works today, the Cabinet yesterday approved the establishment of a $30 million fund to support emergency dredging of water courses, on the advice of Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner. “The Cabinet this morning approved an Emergency Relief Flood Mitigation Fund of $30 million to deal immediately with some of ...read full story... |
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Dredging work to restrict Port of Nassau entrance |
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Saturday, 24 July 2010 |
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(tribune242) THE entrance channel to the Port of Nassau will be restricted to a single-lane passage once dredging work resumes to widen the entrance, said Port Controller, Commander Patrick McNeil. Widening the western entrance is the final exercise to be completed in the harbour improvement project. It was expected to begin today, but may have been delayed due to the threatening weather system. Commander McNeil told The ...read full story... |
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