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Van Oord has been awarded a DPC Innovation Award for its innovative and sustainable approach to a land reclamation project in the Maldives. During the award ceremony in London, Van Oord won the award in the ‘Innovation in Project Design – Open Water/ Coastal Dredging’ category, the company said in its press release. Van Oord… Read More
Van Oord has been awarded a DPC Innovation Award for its innovative and sustainable approach to a land reclamation project in the Maldives. During the award ceremony in London, Van Oord won the award in the ‘Innovation in Project Design – Open Water/ Coastal Dredging’ category, the company said in its press release. Van Oord… Read More
Prepared by members of its new Dredging Management Commission (DMC), the Central Dredging Association – CEDA – has published a new paper entitled “CEDA’s checklist for successful dredging management”. The document is a generic but comprehensive list to help identify and avoid problems with dredging projects at an early project stage, and should benefit all… Read More
Faced with severe criticism from the Opposition parties as well as a section of Telugu Desam Party, which is a part of the BJP-led NDA government at Centre, a fresh talk is doing rounds that there is still a possibility of putting on hold the Union Cabinet’s decision for total disinvestment of Dredging Corporation of… Read More
Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer, signed two agreements with the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY), a government body that manages free zones in the country, to set up two industrial projects at Ras Al-Khair Industrial City. The commission will allocate two parcels of land to Aramco where it will build an… Read More
The owners of Lindeman Island resort have shown their enthusiasm for a $583million revitalisation project by quickly addressing environmental concerns. The Coordinator-General requested the island owner, White Horse Australia Lindeman, provide additional information for its environmental impact statement on October 18. This week the office received the company’s revised plan which scraps major sticking points… Read More
The Azikel Group, an indigenous sand dredging firm, has resumed business in spite of the sealing of its site by Bayelsa Board of Internal Revenue (BIR) on December 15, over alleged tax evasion amounting to N30 million. A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who visited the premises of the firm on Friday reported that the… Read More
Dredging company Van Oord recently finished their dredging operation on a 72-kilometres-long channel in the Caspian Sea. Four years of dredging at an extremely remote location have concluded. Van Oord built the new access channel to the port of Prorva to allow for transportation of construction modules to the Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan, where… Read More
Maersk Line is expanding its trade finance services to Indian customers, as the world’s largest container carrier places high hopes on the rapidly growing, emerging Asian economy. The carrier said it has already signed 100 clients, involving more than $80 million in credit, and is looking to finance another $200 million with India-based businesses over… Read More
Dredging Corporation of India announced that the Non-Executive Employees Union of the Company has informed that the strike against the Government decision to ‘Privatize/ Enitre Stake Sale of DCI’ will take place for three days from 20 December 2017 till 22 December 2017. The Management is holding discussions with the Union to call-off the strike… Read More
India has a coastline of 7,517 km with 13 major ports and 187 minor and non-major ports sprinkled along the coast. Moreover, there are a number of naval establishments along the coast, which support strategic assets. In such a scenario, it would be wrong on part of the government to disinvest a profit-making PSU like… Read More
A company cited in the latest Auditor-General’s Report for failure to deliver on a multi-million dollar contract to supply dredging equipment, faces having to pay back to Government more than $6million within 90 days. Transport and Communications Permanent Secretary Misheck Lungu told the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) on Friday that the ministry had written to… Read More
John LaRue, as executive director of the Port of Corpus Christi since 1994, has helped the local area develop a reputation as a leading exporter of crude oil in the United States. But the port will have a new leader for the first time in more than two decades, after officials announced that LaRue would… Read More
The Dutch Directorate-General for Public Works & Water Management has signed a contract for construction of a €1bn (£880m) road and tunnel project in Rotterdam. The BAAK Blankenburg-Verbinding consortium had been named in July as preferred bidder for the A24 Blankenburgverbinding. The equity partners in the project are Macquarie Capital (70%) and Ballast Nedam Concessies… Read More
When Federal Maritime Commissioner William P. Doyle of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission announced that he would be leaving his post effective January 3, 2018, he concluded by saying, “I am looking forward to what comes next in my career.” Now we know what that will be. The Dredging Contractors of America’s (DCA) Board of… Read More