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Today, South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) president and CEO, Jim Newsome, presented the annual State of the Port to an audience of approximately 600 customers, elected officials and shipping industry representatives at the Charleston Area Convention Center. Jim’s presentation focused on the Port’s successes, strategic infrastructure investments to support continued container volume growth, new initiatives… Read More
The president signed a bill last week authorizing the dredging of Hampton Harbor and local officials hope funding for the project will now come in 2019. The project was included in the America’s Water Infrastructure Act, signed last week by President Donald Trump. The bill identifies priority projects around the country, though does not include… Read More
On Tuesday, President Trump signed Senate Bill 3021, America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (AWIA 2018) into law. The bill authorizes an estimated $3.8 billion in new Army Corps of Engineers civil works projects, fiscal year 2019 appropriations of $7 billion, and emergency supplemental funds of $17.4 billion. The legislation includes the Water Resources Development… Read More
Large-scale projects have been launched in the Southern part of Klaipeda Seaport. Implementation of these projects will result into new possibilities to the companies operating in this part of the Seaport and in improvement of ecological situation. Very soon the projects on capital dredging works and dredging of soil from dock pits in Malku Bay… Read More
The Executive Committee of the National Economic (ECNEC) today approved a project to procure some 35 dredgers involving Taka 4,489.03 crore to keep up navigability in 100 major rivers across the country. The approval came from the 11th ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year held at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla… Read More
We extract billions of tonnes of sand and gravel each year to make concrete for the building industry, and this is having an increasing environmental impact as beaches and river beds are stripped, warn campaigners. Alongside this environmental damage, the building industry is also a major contributor to greenhouse gases – cement manufacturing alone accounts… Read More
SE “Administration of the seaports of Ukraine” on October 22 held in Odessa Dredging day-2018. To the representatives of 10 foreign and Ukrainian companies from the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, China and Ukraine were presented projects of capital and operational dredging in Ukrainian ports, canals and inland waterways, the realization of which will start in 2019… Read More
As part of its modernization and expansion project, YILPORT Puerto Bolívar has ordered 6 ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and 18 electrified rubber-tired gantry (E-RTG) cranes from Mitsui E&S Machinery Co. to boost capabilities of the terminal and meet customer expectations by YILPORT Holding’s global standards. The cranes will be delivered in three shipments to support increasing… Read More
Spoiler Alert, a software and professional services startup that helps food businesses manage unsold inventory and reduce food waste, has raised a strategic round of funding from Maersk Growth, the venture arm of the world’s largest transporter of food. Early-stage food and ag investors Valley Oak Investments and food system-focused investor Acre Venture Partners also… Read More
An alternative to natural sand, the new eco-friendly manufactured sand is set to be a game-changer in realty sector With sand excavation operations becoming difficult with every passing day due to cumbersome procedure, environmental concern and bitter fight among sand ghat contractors leading to acute shortage of natural sand, a new eco-friendly alternative of manufactured… Read More
Foundry Partners LLC trimmed its stake in Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (NASDAQ:GLDD) by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 675,400 shares of the construction company’s stock after selling 10,550 shares during the quarter. Foundry Partners LLC owned 1.08%… Read More
The government has initiated a process to procure some 35 dredgers involving Tk 4,489.03 crore to keep up navigability on 100 major naval routes. “The Planning Commission by now reviewed a draft proposal on the project, expected to be discussed tomorrow at the ECNEC (Executive Committee of the National Economic Council) meeting,” a planning ministry… Read More
There are 6,800 acres of new marshland bordering the Passes of the Mississippi River—land that was created starting in 2011 by a coalition intent on stopping the loss of land in Louisiana at a rate once described as “a football field every hour.” The Mississippi River advocacy group Big River Coalition (BRC) has been working… Read More
President Trump indicated Tuesday that he might nominate current acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler to be the agency’s official head. Wheeler was nominated and confirmed by the Senate to be deputy administrator and took over the top job on an acting basis in July when former head Scott Pruitt resigned amid spending… Read More
According to the U.N., about 12 million hectares of land are lost to desertification each year, an area a little smaller than New York State. Desertification has many causes, but it’s usually used to describe a relatively dry area that becomes drier and drier, losing water, arable land, and plant and animal life. Fighting desertification… Read More