Officials from a half-dozen Texas ports, including Houston and Freeport, on Wednesday outlined their plans for deepening channels, making repairs from Hurricane Harvey and bolstering road and rail improvements planned as ship volumes are expected to rise up and down the state’s Gulf Coast. Though supportive of the projects, members of the Texas Senate Transportation… Read More
DredgeWire.com is proud to announce it has completed its first BPA Worldwide audit of its distribution. Our goal in obtaining this audit is to ensure DredgeWire is a trusted marketing platform for all advertisers looking promote their products and services to the dredging sector. The audit performed by BPA on our e-newsletter verifies that our… Read More
Yilport Holding has revised its growth strategy for the next three years in order to rise among the top 10 international container terminal operators by 2025. The port management and logistics subsidiary of Yildirim Group is in negotiations to acquire several small and medium sized ports and container terminals in Europe, Latin America, and North… Read More
When Yale economist Joseph Shapiro was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about a decade ago, he attempted a cost-benefit analysis of the 1972 Clean Water Act — the federal law governing water quality in the country’s rivers, lakes, and streams. The law was a ripe topic for economic analysis. Since its… Read More
What will the Los Angeles River look like in 10 or 20 years? There are dozens of visions that offer possible answers: there are large-scale planning documents like the County’s “Los Angeles River Master Plan” or the City’s “Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan” and more focused ones like the Department of Water and Power’s… Read More
For the last decade, the city has focused on land transport in an aim to tackle traffic congestion, especially at the entrances to the city and its ports. A number of projects to expand road networks were completed, but did not ease traffic congestion, especially at the northwest gateway and the entry to Cat Lai… Read More
The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), the nodal body in the country responsible for development of water transportation, including National Waterways, received extra financial support when the Lok Sabha passed an amendment to Central Road Fund Act, 2000 during the winter session of the Parliament. The amendment proposes to allocate 2.5 percent of the… Read More
Port of Catoosa Executives say jobs, tonnage and optimism are all on the upswing at the Port. Chip McElroy, chairman of the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority, told the story of the Port—the historical milestones that led to the successes of the past year in the State of the Port address Thursday morning. It’s… Read More
Despite serious challenges in the market, Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) has handled nearly 61 million tonnes of cargo during current financial year (2017-18) till the end of January, 1.6 million tonnes more than during the corresponding period last year and it will be achieving the target of 64 million tonne by the end of the… Read More
Construction of Transnet National Ports Authority’s (TNPA) new bed leveller (plough tug) is underway and was marked by an official keel laying ceremony in Port Elizabeth on 19 January. The new vessel is being designed, manufactured, assembled, commissioned and delivered to TNPA’s Dredging Services division by shipbuilder FTC Engineering (Pty) Ltd, trading as Tide Marine… Read More
Down the palm tree-lined roads of northeast Florida’s Flagler County, a half-dozen dump trucks are shuttling back and forth along the Atlantic coast pouring thousands of tons of sand onto the local beach. Replacing sand swept away by waves and wind is critical work to protect seaside homes and businesses as well as the tourism… Read More
The number of mega-ships calling at the Port of Hamburg more than doubled in 2017, but through a unique set of circumstances, Germany’s busiest port saw its volume actually decline compared with the previous year. In 2017, Hamburg received 102 calls by vessels in the 18,000 to 20,000-plus TEU class, an increase of 52.2 percent,… Read More
After a disappointing week of budget announcements, Savannah’s harbor expansion project may be moving closer to receiving the funds needed to finish the project. On Monday, President Trump’s budget proposal included about half of what is needed for fiscal year 2019. But the situation started looking a bit better by mid-week. The Georgia congressional delegation… Read More
Buller District Council voted to revoke the security status of its port, which means ships from overseas will no longer be able to enter the West Coast town. It follows moves by the council to take over the port’s operations from next month, after the current operator Westport Harbour Limited is wound up. Mayor Garry… Read More
One and half years after, investors are yet to take up 20 per cent of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) equity in Lekki Deep Seaport project in Lagos. The Authority had, in 2016, decided to drop part of its equity after paying $23 million out N39.9 billion ($110.9 million). China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), which… Read More