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Property owners who live in the bayside district of the city will soon get a perk that can help them navigate the Intracoastal Waterway. The city has applied to the state for a citywide dredging permit, which will reduce bureaucracy for residents seeking to dredge their canals. All sediment and core samplings have been completed… Read More
What’s the value of a 2016-built, 150,695 gt cruise ship from a top shipbuilder these days? We should get some answers after the conclusion of the Singapore Sheriff’s sale of the World Dream. The Meyer Werft built ship was arrested by Germany’s KfW IPEX-Bank following the collapse of Genting Hong and was put up for auction pursuant to… Read More
In the past few months, container freight rates have been normalizing to pre-pandemic levels. Several spot rate indices have been showing consistent declines for 39 weeks in a row, but the declines are not necessarily translating into losses for carriers. While the major carriers repeatedly predicted a normalization in the markets in the second half… Read More
The city of Ogdensburg is allocating more than $1 million more towards one of its shoreline projects. Officials say another nearly $1.4 million is needed for additional repairs to the city’s docks, which are being upgraded. In a 4 to 3 vote Monday night, city councillors opted to spend the additional money to ensure projects… Read More
Bracebridge’s Ontario Court of Justice has convicted a local Muskoka resort and its president of violating the province’s Public Lands Act, fining them a combined total of $225,000. Between May 2018 and July 2019, Brian Coldin, president of High Falls Resort in Bracebridge, dredged a section of the Muskoka River fronting the resort property without… Read More
Communities across the country are hoping to get a piece of the $3 billion set aside in recent federal legislation for projects that will protect coasts and shoreline communities. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy from Connecticut is giving federal authorities some early feedback. In a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Murphy shared some… Read More
A record-breaking drought throughout the Mississippi River basin is finally beginning to ease, federal officials say. Low water levels impacted barge traffic and grain exports this fall by slowing shipments from the Midwest to the Port of New Orleans. Now, water levels are beginning to rise in the Lower Mississippi River, which extends downstream from… Read More
Plastic bags, bottles, cans, shoes, underwear. Bikes, scooters, hubcaps, taillights. Furniture. Luggage. Chip wrappers from the 1970s. Huge amounts of unidentifiable plastic bits, and a whole lot of road sand. They’ve all been blown or thrown into the Providence River and its watershed, collecting at the bottleneck by the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier. And after… Read More
An offshore oil platform and wells are silhouetted by the setting sun in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast on July 15, 2010. (Bloomberg photo by Derick E. Hingle) (Derick E. Hingle) From 5,000 feet up, it’s difficult to make out where Louisiana’s coastline used to be. But follow the skeletal remains of decades-old… Read More
The Tigertail/Sand Dollar habitat was already in trouble – and then Hurricane Ian blew through. Now a roughly $4 million project is underway to restore the health of the system and water flow – but the work is under the gun to be completed before the beginning of nesting season for sea turtles and birds… Read More
On September 13, the Sarasota County Commission voted unanimously to ask the County Administrator to research dredging open Midnight Pass. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) first denied the county’s dredging attempt in 1991 and again in 2008. Since 2008, it has become even more difficult to obtain state and federal permits to dredge Midnight… Read More
More than $47 million is coming to Alabama for watershed and habitat restoration along the state’s Gulf Coast, Gov. Kay Ivey has announced. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) recently approved five new projects for the state, selected in coordination with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) and federal resource agencies. The projects are: Dauphin Island East… Read More
A record-breaking drought throughout the Mississippi River basin is finally beginning to ease, federal officials said. Low water levels impacted barge traffic and grain exports this fall by slowing shipments from the Midwest to the Port of New Orleans. Saltwater began to move north from the Gulf of Mexico, threatening drinking supplies. Now water levels… Read More
The $1.6 million dredge of the Milton Harbor channel is expected to be completed this coming week, according to City officials. This makes the channel much more navigable and clears the way for the City to request the US Coast Guard reinstall its federal channel buoys. The US Coast Guard removed its nine buoys – federally… Read More
Last month, record low water levels in the Mississippi River backed up nearly 3,000 barges — the equivalent of 210,000 container trucks — on America’s most important inland waterway. Despite frantic dredging, farmers could move only half the corn they’d shipped the same time last year. Deliveries of fuel, coal, industrial chemicals and building materials… Read More