Dredging

16 Jun 2012

The chance of receiving an occasional phone call in the early hours of the morning to attend to a marine emergency is just another part of Pang Mei-ho's responsibility as a surveyor of the seas...

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Bottom feeders

25 Apr 2011

Imagine you've invested in an eco-resort. You walk from your villa down to the river and are shocked to find a noisy barge dredging sand from the riverbed.

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Mass dredging works raise fears for harbour

5 Sep 2010

A host of big engineering projects due to start beneath the waters of Victoria Harbour this year and next have raised fears over what effects the collective dredging operation might have on...

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Dredging to make way for mega ships

15 May 2008

Kwai Tsing Container Terminals, the world's third-busiest port, is to carry out a massive dredging operation to accommodate a new generation of mega vessels, a senior official from the Transport...

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Guangdong battles to stop excessive sand mining

29 Jul 2007

When a sand barge smashed into the Jiujiang Bridge on the Xi River last month, the collision not only killed nine people and brought down part of the bridge, it also halted Qingyuan...

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Solid foundations

4 Jul 2007

Name: Harry Yu Wai-pong Age: 29 Occupation: Civil engineer

Young Post: How did you become a civil engineer?

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing

Professional golfers must love playing in pro-ams. Get in a stress-free round of golf and know the course a bit better, have a few laughs with a couple of hackers and then top it all off with an...

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Sea drama for swashbuckling activists

Greenpeace fails in mission to collect toxic mud from dredger

Pirates of the Caribbean it wasn't, but Greenpeace's boarding of the barges busily reclaiming Victoria Harbour yesterday...

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HARBOUR PILOT BANNED OVER FATAL COLLISION

Harbour pilot Howard Lau Hon-kwong has had his licence suspended for six months after the collision of a container ship and a Hong Kong dredger. An inquiry concluded Mr Lau had failed to ensure...

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Death-crash vessel 'altered course'

The captain of a container ship involved in a collision with a dredger off Hong Kong in which eight seamen died told a judicial inquiry into the accident yesterday the two vessels had agreed on...

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Memorial service for dredger victims

The Russian Consulate will hold a memorial service today for Chinese and Russian sailors lost in a collision between a dredger and container ship. Eight sailors are dead or missing after the...

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Russian seaman's body found

The body of a Russian seaman who was among eight dead or missing after last week's collision between a dredger and a container vessel was recovered yesterday.

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