Six years after a clampdown against the alleged landfilling of grit blasting material under a 5,000sq.m concrete platform at the Palumbo shipyard, the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal has yet ...

The problem had been eradicated from the area during the Marsa Shipbuilding days but it seems to have made a comeback since the private Italian company, Palumbo, took over the shipyards a few months ...

Palumbo Shipyards and Malta Environment and Planning Authority officials will be meeting tomorrow in a bid to come up with solutions to address the grit-blasting problem that has been plaguing the ...

A first permit issued to the shipyard owners Palumbo to export grit from sand blasting, was issued back in November 2013, with the waste being eventually shipped to Portugal in January 2014.

A specially designed valve developed by Hodge Clemco greatly increases the safety of grit blasting operations by reducing the time taken for equipment to depressurise when it is shut off. On standard ...

The Labour Party has expressed concern about sea pollution it says is caused by grit blasting work carried out by the Italian company Palumbo. Labour MP Silvio Parnis said the party welcomed the fact ...

When the maintenance team responsible for Sydney’s Harbour Bridge was given the green light to repaint the iconic bridge for the first time in its 81-year history, one of its top priorities was to ...