ADVISORY/Photos of Bechtel Operations in Umm Qasr, Including the Arrival of The Carolina, are Available On Business Wire's Web Site, Newstream.com and AP PhotoExpress.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail A miniature representation of a page or image that is used to identify a file by its contents. Clicking the thumbnail opens the file. Thumbnails are an option in file managers, such as Windows Explorer, and they are found in photo editing and graphics program to quickly browse multiple image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Photo Editors/Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) Three photos of Bechtel National, Inc. operations in the port of Umm Qasr Umm Qasr (  m käs`ə) town, Basra prov., S Iraq, S of Basra on the Kuwait border. Located on an arm of the Persian Gulf, it is Iraq's second largest port, with deepwater facilities. are available on Business Wire's Web site, Newstream.com and AP PhotoExpress. Photo one: The Carolina, a dredging dredging, process of excavating materials underwater. It is used to deepen waterways, harbors, and docks and for mining alluvial mineral deposits, including tin, gold, and diamonds. vessel of Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). Dredging and Dock, arrives in the port of Umm Qasr. As part of its capital infrastructure contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bechtel's initial work includes surveying and emergency dredging of the port, to enable ships to deliver humanitarian aid Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. . (Photo by Thayer Walker for Bechtel) Available on Business Wire's website at url: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050803/bb11 Photo two: Cliff Mumm, Bechtel program director for the Iraq reconstruction project (left), with Roy Woods For other uses, see Roy Wood (disambiguation). Roy Wood (born Roy Adrian Wood, 8 November 1946, Kitts Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, England) - sometimes erroneously thought to be born as Ulysses Adrian Wood, from an offhand interview comment in the 1960s - is a , Great Lakes Dredge and Dock project manager for dredging operations at Umm Qasr. Port of Umm Qasr in the background. May 8, 2003. (Photo by Jonathan Elliman for Bechtel) Available on Business Wire's website at url: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050803/bb11a Photo three: Rice being unloaded from a U.S. Agency for International Development ship at Umm Qasr after successful dredging of the port. May 5, 2003. (Photo by Jonathan Elliman for Bechtel) Available on Business Wire's website at url: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050803/bb11b |
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