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The Port of Gothenburg, the largest port in the Scandinavia, has received funding to deepen its fairways — allowing larger vessels to call at the port. On June 2, 2018, Swedish Minister for Infrastructure Thomas Eneroth announced the Swedish government’s latest infrastructure plan and budget, which has allocated approximately $142 million in funding to cover… Read More
A Central China official was fired and four others were punished for neglecting to protect the Yangtze River. The sacked official Wu Kejiang was accused of sleeping on the job and forging documents among other derelictions of duty involving a vessel illegally dredging sand from a section of the river in Jinzhou, Hubei Province. Wu,… Read More
After years of uncertainty about federal funding for a long-sought dredging operation, the Port of Corpus Christi Authority is planning a bond issue to get the Texas project underway. The commission that governs the nation’s fourth-largest port by tonnage and the number-one crude oil export port in the United States voted in March to issue… Read More
A Scottish port authority has been awarded a £1.5 million grant to boost its growth plans and secure jobs. Montrose Port Authority (MPA), a support and service hub for the energy industry, has received the funding through the Scottish Government’s Ports Mode Shift Grant. MPA said that following a period of significant investment the funding… Read More
In a race for the largest and deepest East Coast port, Virginia is about to leap ahead. The budget about to be signed by Gov. Ralph Northam includes $350 million to kick-start a major dredging project in the shipping channel. If the project goes forward, shipping channels in the port of Hampton Roads will go… Read More
PortXL says marine scrubber technology leader Ionada BV has announced the signing of a Pilot Agreement with Van Oord to conduct trials of Ionada’s Semi-Dry Scrubbing technology onboard the Van Oord Lelystad, a hopper dredger. The Pilot trials will consist of the retrofitting of one of the Lelystad’s two main engines with Ionada’s Semi-Dry scrubbing… Read More
Late spring snow lingered on bluffs next to the Mississippi River as a tug from Little Rock, Arkansas, slowly crept northward, pushing a dozen empty barges. Sitting high out of the iced tea-colored water, it was heading to the Twin Cities to pick up corn and grain harvested last fall, before turning around and traveling… Read More
Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) president Juan José Cardona and the president of the Fuerteventura island, Marcial Morales, announced that they plan to tender the extension of the dock of Puerto del Rosario this year. “The project to expand the commercial area of Puerto del Rosario’s wharf is in the drafting… Read More
The Narendra Modi government has relaxed its cabotage policy – a set of rules that govern how goods are shipped within the country, that is from one domestic port to the another – with an eye to making India a trans-shipment hub. However, data shows and experts say that Indian port tariffs are too high… Read More
A month after Maryland environmental regulators demanded the owner of Conowingo Dam do more to help reduce pollution that flows down the Susquehanna River, the company has filed two lawsuits against the state. Exelon Corp. argues it should not be held responsible for pollution it doesn’t create. In lawsuits filed in federal and state courts,… Read More
For decades, parishes have gone back and forth about cleaning and dredging the Amite River. It runs through three major parishes in our area, but this issue goes all the way back to the 1950s. The Amite River stretches about 117 miles and touches three major parishes in our area, East Baton Rouge, Livingston and… Read More
The managing director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, says lack of capacity and credibility by contractors is the key reason why the agency terminated the contracts for the dredging of Calabar ports channels. Testifying before the house joint committees investigating alleged sharp practices and the status of Calabar and Warri ports, Hadiza also… Read More
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed has proposed almost $3 million in funding for two Block Island projects, one for dredging in Old Harbor and the other to do maintenance dredging in the entrance channel of the Great Salt Pond. The monies are included in the 2019 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bill that… Read More
Youths of Itsekiri and Ijaw extraction in Delta State under the auspices of Itsekiri /Ijaw National Youth Council in collaboration with Delta State Seaports’ Stakeholders Association on Thursday began a broad based sensitization campaign of host communities in preparation of the dredging of the Escravos Channel and Warri River. The youths led by presidents of… Read More
U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced Tuesday that the Senate Water Resources Development Act will authorize the first-ever Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Study, aimed at preventing erosion and other damage to lakeshore communities from Minnesota to Northern New York. The four-year, $12 million study — funded by $3 million from the eight Great… Read More