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• Delta levee repairs continue on the cargo ship slammed

     (mercurynews)  A flood disaster was narrowly averted in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta over the weekend after a cargo ship struck a levee on remote Bradford Island. Source

• Gindalbie Metals and China Steel infrastructure sharing agreement reached

    It is reported that Gindalbie Metals Ltd., a small-scaled mining firm and China Steel announced that both sides reached an agreement, sharing infrastructure of the adjacent iron ore project in Mid-West of West Australia. Both parties said the arrangement will be beneficial to each party, as it can reduce cost

• BaltTehProm projects a multitasking port of Kaliningrad to 2016

    BaltTehProm LLC is planning to have built a diversified seaport by 2016 in the Kaliningrad region in the Baltic industrial park. The port project will include a container terminal of handing capacity of up to 880.000 TEUs a year at the roro berths, Viktor Larin, the BaltTehProm executive manager said

• Wilhelmsen Ships Service Agency provides for the major port project

     Wilhelmsen Ships Service has secured a contract to provide ships agency services to Van Oord at Maasvlakte 2, the major port expansion project in Rotterdam. Up to 14 vessels operated by van Oord will be supporting the project and Wilhelmsen Ships Service? will be managing the formalities of co-ordinating

• Aquila W. Australia welcomes announcement of iron ore port

    Diversified mining company Aquila Resources on Friday welcomed the Western Australian government’s decision to develop a greenfield port at Anketell, on the Pilbara coast. On Thursday, Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett said that the government would spend A$3,5-million during the next three years to plan and prepare an industrial precinct

• Port on the island of Sagar – not a new proposal

    While presenting the Union Budget for 2010-11, the Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, proposed to provide funds “in due course” to develop a port project at Sagar Island in West Bengal, recognising the need for an alternative port facility in the state.

• DP World keen on developing India

    Dubai World has earmarked India as a key region in its global growth strategy.

• BBC New Services Americas

     BBC Andino Express Line announces service from the Port of West Palm Beach to Northern Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Beginning in November 2009, the Andino Express Line will offer a monthly sailing from the Port of West Palm Beach. This will be the first time BBC Chartering has offered

• Angang, Start Building Gindalbie Karara Iron Ore Project

    The Karara iron ore project, which is jointly operated by the Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corporation (Angang Group) and Gindalbie Metals, a mineral resources miner based in Australia, will break earth soon.

• Kolkata Port bid to save Diamond Harbor Project

    In a bid to salvage the proposed Diamond Harbour container terminal project pushed into uncertainty by the Defence Ministry’s refusal to part with land, the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has mooted a fresh proposal to the Ministry offering alternative land at Roychowk further up the Hooghly River. The Shipping Ministry too

• Port Expansion sets the standard

    In an article published on its website yesterday, engineering contractor Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) said the success of the Dampier Port expansion had set new international benchmarks for project delivery. The $1.4 billion upgrade project was one of the largest port expansions in Australia in recent times.

• Gangavaram port handles 10 million tonnes of cargo

    Gangavaram port, which started operations earlier this year, touched 10 million tonnes of cargo on Tuesday and during Diwali. The port has set a record in the discharge of project cargo, according to a press release. On October 18, the port discharged 612 packages/4,497 tonnes of project cargo on a single day

• Murchison Says China Search Groups role in Ore Port

     Murchison Metals Ltd., an Australian iron ore company, said a number of Chinese groups are interested in helping develop the A$4 billion ($3.3 billion) Oakajee iron ore port and rail project in Western Australia.  Murchison’s joint venture with Mitsubishi Corp., Oakajee Port & Rail Pty, has held meetings with Chinese groups

• Boskalis wins 40 million LNG import terminal project in Mexico

     Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded the contract from Secretaría de Comunicaciones Y Transportes (Ministry of Communications and Transport) for the dredging of an access channel and turning basin at the LNG import terminal of Cuyutlán on the west coast of Mexico. The contract value is approximately € 40

• Port of Vancouver, Washington optimistic despite downturn

    THE Port of Vancouver Washington’s total tonnage has fallen to below 2006 levels and the port faces a US$23 million expense next year for its West Vancouver Freight Access project – nearly half of the port’s $56.2 million annual budget.