Coastal Areas

Tokyo, Feb 7, 2012 - (JCN) - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has started a demonstration test of the Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) system installed on the diesel engine used for power generation on an...

Muscat projects the port of Sohar, 220 km north of Muscat, as the first anchor for a journey to make Oman a key maritime centre between three continents. Industries built there feature a...

A loan from the Inter-American Development Bank is for a Coastal Risk Assessment & Management Program (Project No. BA-L1014; Loan No.2463/OC-BA). Some the funds are for Quality Assurance/Quality Control Consultancy. Deadline to prequalify:...

STRIP. A region along Puerto Rico's north coast will be off-limits to developers untila lawsuit filed by conservationists is resolved, an appeals court ruled, reports AP (Jan. 4, 2012): The ruling temporarily bars...

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has breathing space until May 31 through one of President Barack Obama's last actions of 2011 on Dec. 23. But it remains unclear whether the latest extension...

Construction is well under way on a new wastewater treatment plant to serve the small coastal communities of Netarts and Oceanside, but a complaint that recently hit Multnomah County Circuit Court has jeopardized...

The northwestern Nicaraguan town of La Isla has lost so many of its residents in recent years that locals have unofficially renamed it "La Isla de las viudas" (island of widows). The victims,...

DALLAS -- Primoris Services Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: PRIM) ("Primoris" or "Company") today announced new contracts and work authorizations totaling approximately $102.5 million for natural gas pipeline infrastructure, power plant, and parking structure...

Alternative water project will be pursued PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. -- California American Water announced today that it has withdrawn its support of the three-party agreements behind the Regional Desalination Project that the company...

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ffacc6/chemical_marine_mo) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Chemical Marine Monitoring: Policy Framework and Analytical Trends" to their offering. Wide- scale chemical monitoring...

Four partners will form the nucleus of a new Schiff Hardin office in Ann Arbor, Mich. CHICAGO -- Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce the addition of a distinguished group of nationally...

* FINANCE Newport Beach-based distressed-debt specialist Sabal Financial Group LP acquired a $204 million loan portfolio from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The bundle is part of a larger portfolio sale of more...

Submitting firm: KPFF Consulting Engineers and GRI Client/owner: Port of Newport Other consultants: Andersen-West Coast Contractors (joint venture), Day CPM Services, gLAs Architects, Pacific Habitat Services When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

HOUSTON -- Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) today announced that shippers who executed 10-year, firm transportation agreements in May 2011 on the partnership's Mid-America Pipeline ("MAPL") Rocky Mountain expansion project have exercised options...

Jing Sun, Manager of the PSigma Global Equity Fund, is encouraged by a recent research trip to China... I have just returned from Hong Kong and Beijing following my annual research trip. I...

HOUSTON -- Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) announced today that it is conducting a two-week supplemental open commitment period to accommodate additional shipper demand on the partnership's Appalachia to Texas pipeline ("ATEX Express")....

Opening marks the first Park Hyatt branded resort in China CHICAGO -- Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced today the opening of Park Hyatt Ningbo Resort and Spa in the eastern coastal city...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Fitch Ratings has assigned 'AA+' ratings to the following Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, California (the district) promissory notes and implied general obligation (GO) bonds: --$33.7 million refunding promissory notes...

CSX Corp.'s rail unit on Jan. 3 began offering on-dock rail intermodal service at Portsmoufh, Va., marking die latest step in its niultistate National Gateway project to expand double-stack service in the eastern...