As governments around the world have been grappling with the financial crisis, the critical importance of dredging is now front and center. Renewed interest has been sparked in dredging and its contributions to long·term, global infrastructure - to port, harbour and waterway maintenance and development, to ensuring coastal protection and to the exploration for energy and the supply of energy sources, be it oil and gas offshore or newly designed windmill farms at sea. From Australia to Germany to the United States and everywhere in between, public infrastructure spending, including ports and waterways, has become part of government stimulus packages, aimed at creating jobs and halting the economic downward slide.
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