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The Netherlands: Maasvlakte 2 project rocks

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:25:54 +0000 -   The rock situation   Every two weeks, a Norwegian bulk carrier unloads 90,000 tons of rock on the doorstep of the contractor PUMA. This material is required for the construction of the hard seawall. 5 million tons of quarrystone will eventually end up in this seawall, as well as 2 million tons of stone from the existing [...]

UK: Dredgers, barges and ancillary craft leave Felixstowe Port Expansion project

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:27:06 +0000 - The first phase of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) is almost complete, apart from the land-side works, and all the various dredgers, hopper barges, survey vessels and ancillary craft have now left the port. The expansion of the UK’s largest container terminal, which started midway through 2008, has included reclamation of 28 hectares of land including [...]

Chinese Yangtze river aims for a deeper tomorrow

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:13:39 +0000 - A port survey has shown that the total investment earmarked for expansion and renovation projects along the 2,838km navigable length of the Yangtze river now comes to around $4bn. The survey – the first of its kind – was completed by Yangtze River Administration under the Ministry of Transport. These projects, under construction, planned and likely [...]

Namibia: Namdeb selects Firestone Diamonds to build and operate new dredge and treatment plant

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:34:48 +0000 - JOHANNESBURG – Aim-listed Firestone Diamonds has been selected as the preferred candidate to build and operate a new dredge and a 11,5-million ton a year floating treatment plant (FTP) for Namibian diamond-miner Namdeb. The FTP project was one of the outsourcing options that Namdeb, which is a subsidiary of diamond giant De Beers, was evaluating as [...]

India: Lack of dredging works responsible for recurring floods in Assam

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:12:24 +0000 - The Centre has finally admitted that excessive siltation of Brahmaputra and Barak rivers was primarily reasons responsible for recurring floods in Assam. However, the Government of Assam has stopped dredging of rivers way back in 1978 and Centre has not made any separate budgetary allocation for de-siltation of rivers to mitigate floods and erosion problems, informed [...]

Australian Goverment funds Swansea Channel dredging program

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:01:41 +0000 - A sustained dredging program of the Swansea Channel over the 2009-10 summer means that boats should have no problems coming up the coast and getting into the lake. The dredging program, administered through the NSW Land and Property Management Authority, (LPMA) began in late September 2009, and is expected to conclude in April 2010. As a result, [...]

Port of Melbourne’s dredging project wins Australian infrastructure award

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:28:31 +0000 - The recently completed Channel Deepening Project in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria’s largest ever marine infrastructure project, has beaten strong competition to win the prestigious National Infrastructure Award. Roads and Ports Minister Tim Pallas welcomed the award today and said the Victorian project had prevailed over other significant nominations, including Sydney’s $1.8 billion desalination plant and Brisbane’s [...]

Dutch dredging contractor Boskalis publishes prospectus for listing of shares

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:44:12 +0000 - Papendrecht, 12 March 2010, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that it has published a prospectus for the admission to listing of 4,106,038 ordinary shares issued through a private placement last December. The shares are expected to be admitted to listing on Euronext Amsterdam by NYSE Euronext (NYSE Euronext) on 15 March. On 10 December 2009 [...]

Van Oord’s rock dumping vessel Nordnes kicks off with Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:26:23 +0000 - Work on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site began Tuesday, March 9, with the arrival of the 164m “Nordnes” vessel, which will position rocks at selected foundation locations in preparation for the start of the installation of the giant monopile structures next month. Using a precision technique, the “Nordnes” will place 2-9” filter rocks in [...]

Abu Dhabi: $409m Mussafah canal dredging on track

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:12:44 +0000 - The authorities in Abu Dhabi are reportedly on track to complete by US$409m project to construct a channel that will improve access to the Mussafah industrial zone by the middle of 2010. The channel, which requires the dredging of a 63km, 200m wide channel with a depth of 9m, is being built to replace an existing [...]