TendersInfo back issues from July 2009:
United Arab Emirates: IRENA Expected to Attract Investments in Green Energy.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: prashant03 The decision to base the International Renewable Energy Agency, or IRENA, in Abu Dhabi should make the nation s capital a magnet for businesses involved in research and development and in related investments, business leaders and executives said on Tuesday. ...
United arab emirates : Dubai's Emaar in merger move to create real estate giant with low debt.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 The Dubai developer behind the world s tallest building plans to merge with three rivals owned by the sheikdom s ruler, in a consolidation aimed at better coping with a global meltdown fueled weakness in the one-time Arab boomtown s real estate sector. ...
United Arab Emirates: ACS to Provide Persian Gulf s First Tramway System with Comprehensive Contactless Ticketing.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: rakshali03 Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. ACS today announced that it will supply an intelligent ticketing system for the first tram system in the Persian Gulf region, marking the company s first major contract in the Gulf. ACS solidified its commitment to expanding ...
United Arab Emirates: Ground Work Begins at Deerfields Town Square in Abu Dhabi.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: sanjayV03 International Architects RMJM Appointed Lead Design Consultants for MBI s Flagship Project. Deerfields Town Square, the flagship project developed by MBI in Abu Dhabi, today announced work has commenced at the mixed-use project. ...
United Arab Emirates: HCL Technologies Signs New Five-Year Deal with Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced that it will provide IT application and infrastructure operations and management for Dr Pepper Snapple Group a leading producer of flavored beverages. HCL will deliver application ...
United Arab Emirates : Emaar's Merged Entity to Have $3.65 Billion in Debt.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 Emaar Properties PJSC, the Middle East s largest real-estate developer, said the entity created by its merger with three state-controlled competitors will have 13.4 billion dirhams ($3.65 billion) in debt obligations. Emaar shares dropped the most since November ....
United Arab Emirates : Abu Dhabi plans Olympic stadium at Mina Zayed.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 MEED reported that Abu Dhabi is planning to build an Olympic stadium at Mina Zayed on Abu Dhabi Island.The developer, government-controlled Mubadala Development Company, declined to comment on the project. A spokesman for Abu Dhabi Sports Council said that it is ...
United Arab Emirates: UAE, Country With World's Largest Carbon Footprint, to Host HQ for International Renewable Energy Agency.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 The United Arab Emirates has the largest per capita carbon footprint of any country in the world, contains artificial islands, a ski dome in the middle of the desert, and will soon boast the first air-conditioned beach. In general, the country relies on a cheap ...
United Arab Emirates: BMW improves computer-aided design and engineering.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 Computer-aided design and engineering used to simulate prototypes and analyse components on screen is increasingly crucial to reducing costs and speeding up vehicle development. BMW Group vehicle manufacturing turned to Intel's Xeon processor 5400 series in a ...
United Arab Emirates: Ministry of Culture signs MoU with General Board of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development, signed yesterday at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, a memorandum of understanding with the Public Authority for the Telecommunications Regulatory 'Etisalat'. The memo includes the protection of ...
United Arab Emirates: SEACOM Selects E-Marine as Maintenance Solutions Provider.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: sandesh03 E-Marine today announced a maintenance and storage agreement with SEACOM, a service provider of international fiber optic bandwidth along the East Coast of Africa linking East Africa, Europe and South Asia. E-MarineE-MarineE will now take responsibility for ...
United arab emirates : Emaar's Merged Entity to Have $3.65 Billion in Debt.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 Emaar Properties PJSC, the Middle East s largest real-estate developer, said the entity created by its merger with three state-controlled competitors will have 13.4 billion dirhams ($3.65 billion) in debt obligations. Emaar shares dropped the most since November ....
United Arab Emirates : Dubai's Emaar in merger move to create real estate giant with low debt.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 The Dubai developer behind the world s tallest building plans to merge with three rivals owned by the sheikdom s ruler, in a consolidation aimed at better coping with a global meltdown fueled weakness in the one-time Arab boomtown s real estate sector. ...
United Arab Emitates : Emaar's Merged Entity to Have $3.65 Billion in Debt.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 Emaar Properties PJSC, the Middle East s largest real-estate developer, said the entity created by its merger with three state-controlled competitors will have 13.4 billion dirhams ($3.65 billion) in debt obligations. Emaar shares dropped the most since November ....
Afghanistan : BRIEF-OshKosh wins $1.1 bln contract for trucks for Afghanistan.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: rakshali03 OshKosh Corp has won a $1.1 billion firm, fixed-price contract to build 2,244 armored trucks for use by the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday. OshKosh beat out BAE Systems ( BAESF.PK - news - people ), Navistar International ...
Uganda: Zain's mobile money transfer service for launch today.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: babalu03 Zain s mobile money transfer service for launch today Dorothy Nakaweesi Kampala Zain customers will be relieved of the hassle of moving with huge sums of money, as the company today, starts a mobile commerce service dubbed Zap ....
Angola: Optical fibre network operational in 2012.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: datta003 Telecommunications and Information Technologies minister, Jose da Rocha, said Monday in Wako Kungo City, centre-west Kwanza Sul Province, that the optical fibre network aimed at revolutionising communications in Angola, will be ready in 2012, with the connection ...
Australia: Sugar millers want bipartisan support for renewable energy.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: prashant03 The Australian sugar milling council is calling for bipartisan Federal support for new renewable energy targets. The Senate has referred to proposals to increase the renewable energy target from two to 20 per cent by 2020 to a Senate Committee Chief executive ...
Australia : Macquarie Communications says US$1.8b takeover approved.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 Australia's Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group stockholders on Tuesday voted in favor of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's 2.2 billion Australian dollars ($1.8 billion) takeover bid. The vote came a day after MCG, which owns and ...
Australia: Asciano secures 10-year Anglo Coal rail deal.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: rakshali03 Australia's second largest coal haulage operator, Asciano, has signed a 10-year contract to haul coal exports for Anglo Coal in Queensland. Queensland contract agreement : The performance-based deal, to start in the 2009/10 financial year, would ...
Australia : MEO Australia Completes Artemis 3D Seismic Survey Processing In Carnarvon Basin.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 MEO Australia Limited (MEO Australia), an oil and gas company, has been informed by Petroleum Geo-Services Australia Pty Ltd that processing of the 250 square kilometers Artemis 3D seismic in WA-360-P has been completed on schedule. The data set is expected in ...
Australia: Inland rail scheme eyes coal line sale.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: rakshali03 The proposed sale of Queensland Rail's (QR) coal haulage business may have attracted a buyer for the Bowen to Mt Isa rail link. The Inland Railway Project wants to create a standard gauge railway from Melbourne to Darwin via the state's mining regions and is ...
Australia: $32m state rail buyback.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: rakshali03 TASMANIA will pay $32m to buy the state's rail network, Infrastructure Minister Graeme Sturges says. Ports and rail operator Asciano Group is in the process of trying to sell all or part of its businesses to reduce the group's heavy debt burden of $4.6 ...
Australia: Tech Mahindra to deliver Satyam Geelong campus.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 TECH Mahindra has for the first time publicly confirmed its continued commitment to a $75 million software development project in Geelong, following the largest corporate scandal to rock India. There were grave concerns the project would be axed after ...
Australia: Canada Pension's Bid for Macquarie Communications Wins Approval.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: datta003 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board won support from Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group shareholders for an A$1.64 billion ($1.33 billion) takeover offer for the Australian investor in radio transmission towers. Canada s second-biggest ...
Australia: City firm wins $9m school building contracts.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 BUILDING contractor BDH Construction will take on $9 million worth of school building projects across the south-west, starting this week. The Warrnambool-based business will be responsible for five school building projects under round one of the Federal ...
Australia : Leighton Contractors awarded Duralie coal contract extension.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 Leighton Contractors' Resources Division has been awarded a seven-year contract extension worth $350 million by Gloucester Coal. Under the contract, Leighton Mining will undertake mine planning, surface mining operations, maintenance and site rehabilitation work ...
Australia: Solar power project funds 'to continue'.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: prashant03 Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett says a Top End project to increase remote communities' access to sustainable energy will still get funding over the next two years to complete existing initiatives. The Government wound up its remote ...
Australia: Vasco Data Security Digipass CertiID.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 As a desktop app, we were very pleased with its capabilities to manage our tokens/smartcards. Digipass CertiID is a middleware solution to provide user applications access to cryptographic operations based on hardware tokens. It provides three different ...
Australia: Alcoa acquires Noble's IP for welded aluminium risers.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: sanjayV03 ALCOA will acquire Noble s intellectual property for welded aluminium risers used in offshore oil and gas exploration and development. Noble designs and deploys welded aluminium riser systems using Alcoa s advanced extrusions and forgings. ...
Australia : Macquarie Comms shareholders approve Canada fund bid.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 Towers company says A$1.6 billion offer was approved by more than 90% of shareholders. Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group shareholders Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's A$1.6 billion bid for the group. In a ...
Australia : Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group Security Holders Approve Sale to CPP Investment Board TORONTO, ONTARIO,.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 The CPP Investment Board (CPPIB) announced today that the security holders of Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (MCG) voted in favour of accepting CPPIB's proposal to acquire all the stapled securities of MCG(1) which was initially announced on March ...
Australia: Defence firm BAE Systems snares $300m destroyer job.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: kusumv03 AUSTRALIA'S largest defence company, BAE Systems, has snatched a $300 million share of the hull construction contract for the navy's new air warfare destroyers, generating 400 new jobs and underwriting the future of Victoria's Williamstown naval dockyard. ...
Australia: WA Govt signs off $1bn desal contract.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: datta003 Work on Western Australia's new $1 billion desalination plant is due to start next month. The federal Department of Environment approved plans for WA's second desalination plant earlier this month, subject to strict conditions. A ...
Australia: Rann's new plan to secure SA's water future.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: sandesh03 The State Government has outlined its latest plan to guarantee South Australia s future water security to 2050 and beyond, by diversifying water supplies and breaking its dependence on the River Murray. Premier Mike Rann and Minister for Water ...
Australia: Gloucester Coal awards $350 million coal mining contract to Leighton.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 Gloucester Coal Ltd has awarded a seven-year, $350 million mining contract to Leighton Mining, a division of Leighton Holdings Ltd, to continue mining at the Duralie mine site in NSW. Leighton Mining will conduct planning, surface mining operations, maintenance ...
Australia: Norfolk wins $96.5m BHP iron contract.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 Sydney-based Norfolk Group has secured a $96.5 million contract from BHP Billiton Iron Ore for rail signaling installation work as part of the miner's Rapid Growth Project 5. Norfolk, through its subsidiary O'Donnell Griffin Rail, will overhaul the current ...
Australia: Toll wins $180m contract.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 TOLL Holdings has been awarded a $180 million contract over three years to manage the supply base and logistics services for Chevron Australia's $50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project off Western Australia. Toll is expected to start work on ...
Australia: Discounted Training into Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 CAD Software.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 People who book and pay before June 30 2009 are eligible for the discount. This price includes the course, the manual and lunch. The training is planned to be held on 9th July 2009 from 8:00am to 4:30pm. The Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 training course is ...
Australia : Australian miner iron ore hdlgs ups min. Res. Estimate for pjt.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: manish03 Kerry Stokes-controlled junior explorer Iron Ore Holdings Ltd (ASX:IOH) has substantially increased the mineral resource estimate for its Iron Valley project in Western Australia. The resource at the project in the state's Pilbara region now stands at 132.3 ...
Australia: Meeting scheduled for main street plan.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: sanjayV03 The Wingham Chamber of Commerce will unveil its plans to beautify the central business district at a public meeting later this month. The community is invited to attend the meeting in the Wingham Services Club auditorium on Tuesday, July 28, and have ...
Australia: Southern seawater desalination plant contract signed.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: datta003 Water Minister Graham Jacobs confirmed work on the new seawater desalination plant will begin within three weeks, following the signing of contracts today with the Spanish-led consortia that will build the $955million project outside Binningup and operate it for ...
Australia: Asciano secures 10-year coal transport contract with Anglo Coal.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: pinto03 Asciano Ltd has signed a 10-year contract with Anglo Coal, a subsidiary of Anglo American plc, in Queensland to transport up to 5.75 million tonnes of coal a year, but did not give a value for the deal. The transport and logistics company said it was ...
Australia: State Government delivers guaranteed air services for regional WA.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: pinto03 Transport Minister Simon O Brien has announced that regional Western Australia will be guaranteed regular passenger air services. Mr O Brien said the State Government believed it more important to put regional WA s need for regular passenger air services ahead of ...
Azerbaijan: SOCAR to examine oil and gas import to Red Sea.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: manish03 Uninterrupted and reliable work of the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeyhan oil pipeline and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipelines enables to examine to deliver the Caspian oil and gas to the Red Sea in future, Head of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) Rovnag ...
Azerbaijan : Gaz de France acquires shares in Azerbaijan's largest gas project.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: manish03 French Gaz de France SUEZ (GDF/SUEZ) acquired 20-percent share in project on exploration and development of the Absheron perspective gas field on the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea, the company said. The current share holding in the project is ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Apple and Intel buy Imagination.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 British outfit Imagination is being wooed by Intel and Apple. The outfit, which designs chips which are becoming attractive to mobile phone makers within the mobile arena, has been receiving large briefcases of cash from the two hardware makers. ...
Bangladesh : IDB to fund Bangladesh's Padma bridge through $1.3 bln loan.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will provide a $1.3 billion loan to Bangladesh for construction of a bridge over the Padma river estimated to cost $1.5 billion, a government spokesman said on Monday. "IDB will provide $1.3 billion for the ...
Bangladesh: Govt set to buy 21 locomotives for railway.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: rakshali03 The government is set to procure 21 locomotives under loan agreements for Bangladesh Railway from South Korea and Japan, the communication minister said in the parliament on Tuesday. While replying to a query from Jamalpur-2 MP Faridul Haque Khan, ...
Bangladesh: EPCL gets syndicated term loan for energy project.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: babalu03 A signing ceremony for syndicated term loan facility of Tk. 1560 million in favor of Energis Power Corporation Limited (EPCL) by a Bank Syndication consists of 6(six) commercial banks was recently held at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel. Agrani Bank Limited has ...
Bangladesh : Bangladesh's Banks Asked To Maintain Benchmark For Overseas Exchange Houses.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: babalu03 The banks were requested Sunday to maintain a benchmark for quoting foreign currency exchange rates to the overseas exchange houses engaged in remitting money to Bangladesh, bankers told AHN Media. The decision came at a meeting of the executive committee of the ...
Belgium: EU clears Belgium's euro3.5 billion bailout for KBC.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 Belgium's KBC bank won European Union approval Tuesday to receive a euro3.5 billion ($4.95 billion) state recapitalization and a government guarantee to cover potential losses for six months. EU regulators said their approval was temporary and Belgium ...
Belgium: EU mulls 7 billion subsidy for carbon capture.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 The European Commission yesterday (29 June) estimated that up to 7 billion could be made available to fund carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology from the EU's emissions trading scheme (EU ETS). Meanwhile, renewables projects would get around 5 billion. ...
Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso Exploration - Phase 2 Drilling Results.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: manish03 Phase 2 completed 11 RC holes totalling 1,570m drilled on 5 prospects. *Gold mineralisation >0.45 g/t Au reporting cut-off was intersected in 8 holes. *Continued gold mineralisation was confirmed on 3 prospects - Q22, IK and POA. Q22 Prospect Best ...
Bulgaria: Biometric passport system starts in November.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 It is very likely the biometric passport system, which includes fingerprints and face-scans to start operating in November 2009, Bulgarian Minister of Interior Mihail Mikov said before journalists, cited by FOCUS News Agency. In Mihail Mikov s words the system ...
Brunei Darussalam: Seria To Get $15 Million Community Centre.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: manish03 Kuala Belait - The construction of a $15 million community centre in Seria Town, the biggest community development initiative undertaken by the Belait District Office and Brunei Shell Petroleum, is expected to begin today. The massive project was ...
Brazil : CCR Seeks Loans of as Much as $900 Million, LatinFinance Says.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 Cia. de Concessoes Rodoviarias is seeking loans of between $500 million and $900 million to replace short-term debt it used for large infrastructure projects, LatinFinance said, citing Chief Financial Officer Arthur Piotti. The Brazilian road operator ...
Brazil : USTDA Grant Furthers Efforts to Build a Waste to Energy Plant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 On Friday, USTDA awarded a grant to MPX Energia, S.A. to determine the viability of constructing a waste to energy plant in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The grant, which reflects USTDA's ongoing commitment to Brazil's development since naming it as the agency's ...
Bahamas: Gov't owes cruise ships $11 million.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: sandesh03 The government owes two cruise lines $11.1 million in departure tax rebate payments for bringing cruise passengers to The Bahamas, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said in the House of Assembly yesterday. Ingraham said $10.7 million is owed to Carnival ...
India : India's HDIL starts $300 mln share sale.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: shiv03 India's Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL.BO) plans to raise about $300 million by selling shares in the range of 240 to 250 rupees each, two sources with knowledge of the deal said on Monday. The share sale to qualified institutional ...
Belarus : IMF Boosts Belarus Aid To $3.52B From $2.51B.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 The International Monetary Fund said Monday it will boost aid to Belarus to $3.52 billion, more than $1 billion more than it had initially committed to the struggling Eastern European nation. Additionally, the IMF board said it was waiving certain economic ...
Canada: Metro Vancouver coalition pushes for $450 million for public transit.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: rakshali03 An unlikely group of environmentalists, business and labour leaders joined Metro Vancouver's mayors Tuesday to push Victoria and Ottawa to direct an annual $450 million into funding public transit. The Mayors' Council on Regional Transportation, ...
Canada : Canadian Mint Plans Review to Find C$15 Million in Lost Gold.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Mamta03 Canada s mint plans a review of its security and other procedures in a bid to find C$15.3 million ($13.2 million) in lost gold and other metals, a spokeswoman said. The Royal Canadian Mint can t account for 17,500 ounces of gold, according to an audit ...
Canada: Telus launches into satellite TV business.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: datta003 Vancouver-based telecommunications giant Telus Corp. has added satellite television to its suite of services. Telus satellite TV -- with more than 500 digital channels, including more than 80 in high definition -- is now available to more than 90 per cent of ...
Canada : New Seismic Reflection Data for the Nechako Basin.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: manish03 Geoscience BC: New Seismic Reflection Data for the Nechako Basin, British Columbia Geoscience BC is pleased to announce the release of new seismic reflection data for the northern Nechako Basin west of Quesnel, British Columbia. This $2.5 million ...