DPC_April09

Contents
April 2009
Regulars
World News
Association News 2
Editor’s Comment 3
Savannah’s New Cranes 4
IMarEST Turns 120 5
Combi Dock III Named 6
Port Boss Faces Jail 7
JDN Wins Hedland Contract 8
Dredging Projects 10
Cover Stories
Elections Stall Reforms 11
DPC’s Diary 13 A New Deal
People Spotlight 13
President Obama’s $billions will fund vital dredging and port construction
Port Development 22
projects across the country, Will Watson reports
Africa / Middle East 14
The Americas 15
Changing Our World
Asia / Australasia 16
Europe / Scandinavia 17
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A three-year project centred on the Port of Brisbane aims to find new
commercial uses for marginal dredged material
Product News
What’s New 53
The Future Beckons – DPC’s Middle East Report
Port Of Call 54
Doha: a massive new port will be cut from the coastline .......................... 30-33
Round Table 30 Hamriyah: Adnan Al Najjar’s maritime city dream ......................................35-36
Inmarsat’s Piers Cunningham 60
Drydocks World: home from home for maintaining dredgers ....................... 37
Sharjah: expanding both Sharjah and Khor Fakkan box terminals ................. 39
Chabahar: Iran’s two-port strategy to build a Gulf of Oman hub .............40-41
Sokhna: investing in a man-made port straddling two vital assets ................. 43
Ras Laffan: breath-taking scale of this natural gas port ............................44-47
When Cities Encroach: just build a new port? Not so easy... ......................... 48
Duqm: the $1.8Bn port project defies the credit crunch .................................. 49
Feature Articles
On the Cover
Danish contractor Combi 18
Going Places
Pipavav, India’s first private-sector port, is spending $94M on capital dredging
to attract post-Panamax box ships and LNG carriers, Christina George reports
Lift’s Combi Dock III heavy-lift
vessel during sea trials prior to
delivery. She’s the third of four
sisters with the fourth slated
for delivery this December. 50
When The Levees Broke
Work’s progressing on the $14Bn plan to give New Orleans the flood
protection it needs, writes Mathijs van Ledden – but much is still to be done...
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