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The inaugural Maritime Digital Innovation Summit took place in Singapore on 14 and 15 November with speakers and delegates from Singapore, southeast Asia and further afield coming together to discuss pressing issues related to digitalisation in the maritime sector. A range of topics were covered but strong trends throughout the two-day conference were cyber risk,… Read More
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has approved a $49 million plan to fund eight coastal Alabama restoration projects using criminal penalties assessed to BP and Transocean for causing the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As one of the various BP funding streams, NFWF’s Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund has already sent $200 million to… Read More
The Port of Hamburg has announced its 9 months 2018 results. The port achieved a total throughput of 100.8 mln tons, which is 3.4% below the 2017 level, due to lower volumes of bulk cargo and containers, although conventional general cargo slightly increased. Hamburg handled 6.6 mln TEU in January-September 2018, -2.4% as compared to… Read More
Dredging is a perpetual job, at least when the funding exists. In 2013, Newport Beach dredged about 600,000 cubic yards of silt from portions of its harbor at a cost of about $7 million. Now the city has about 1 million cubic yards of unwanted sediment in the parts of the harbor it didn’t reach… Read More
The King County Maritime Economic Forecast is a highlight at the annual Pacific Marine Expo. Steve Metruck, executive director of the Port of Seattle, came today with a shopping list for the next five years. “Where you place your money is what’s important,” said Metruck, who served 34 years in the Coast Guard, retired as… Read More
Cities are quickly pushing for new projects deal with dredged materials in the harbors. The general assembly in Ohio passed Senate Bill 1 in 2015 which prohibits dredged materials from the harbor or any navigation maintenance activities to be deposited into Lake Erie — known as the open-lake method. All eight harbors in the state… Read More
Thordon Bearings Inc. has announced that it will provide the water-lubricated composite cutterhead shaft and intermediate ladder bearings for the LNG-fuelled cutterhead suction dredger (CSD), Spartacus. The vessel is scheduled for delivery next summer to DEME Group – a Belgian dredging and reclamation specialist – from Royal IHC’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. It will… Read More
STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. (NASDAQ: EGLE) announced that is has exercised its options to purchase 15 additional exhaust gas cleaning systems which are to be retrofitted on vessels within its fleet. This follows the Company’s prior announcement that it had entered into a series of agreements for… Read More
Mississippi officials have outlined how they plan to spend this year’s $37.8 million installment of BP oil spill money, focusing largely on economic, environmental and transportation projects. Gov. Phil Bryant made the announcement Tuesday in Biloxi, outlining how the state will spend money from the federal RESTORE Act, which allocates 80 percent of the penalties… Read More
Canal Corporation Deploys New Dredge on Erie Canal Source: YouTube
Coast Guard officials say they located a capsized work boat Sunday morning in the Cooper River in Charleston Harbor, with help from U.S. Army Corps of Engineering and other partners. The Coast Guard and port partners are monitoring the salvage efforts for Miss Anne, a steel 25-foot commercial work boat, which capsized and sank in… Read More
Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has announced the introduction of three new Asia-South Africa services that include direct calls to ports such as Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. The three new weekly services are named South Africa Service 1 (SAF1), South Africa Service 2 (SAF2) and South Africa Service 3 (SAF3), to be effective… Read More
Delta State government has given an insight into how its succeeded in making the state a safe haven for investors despite no fewer than 220 communal clashes recorded in the last three years even as it’s called on the federal government to dredge the River Niger to check devastating flooding experienced by the coastal communities… Read More
If you’ve traveled the central Oregon coast, you might remember the signs marking Depoe Bay’s claim to fame: the “World’s Smallest Harbor.” But now that harbor is getting even smaller because of accumulating silt. City officials in Depoe Bay are on tenterhooks because of the problem. Silt buildup renders the fuel dock inaccessible at low… Read More
PaxOcean has delivered a 26,000m3 floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to Indonesia-based Jaya Samudra Karunia (JSK). The Karunia Dewata is the largest FSRU to be built in China and the first to feature Type C cargo tanks. The unit was built at PaxOcean’s Zhoushan Shipyard to Lloyd’s Register’s (LR) Rules for the Classification of… Read More