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The board of trustees of Mumbai Port Trust on Friday (27 April) scrapped a three-year contract signed with the Dredging Corporation of India Ltd (DCI) last September for maintaining the port’s channel and adjacent areas. The board of trustees also decided to debar DCI from participating in a fresh tender issued by the Mumbai Port… Read More
On Monday, April 30, 2018 the Port of Corpus Christi will host a hearing of the Texas House Select Committee on Ports, Infrastructure and Innovation. Texas ports connect to global markets across a vast array of industries. The advent of “megaships,” expansion of the Panama Canal, and Mexico’s project to reform its energy sector are… Read More
Mounting appreciation of the benefits of using polymers in the treatment of sediments in dredging projects could potentially see the process gain a greater foothold in dewatering-intensive port development works around the world. In an article recently published in Terra et Aqua, authors Alexis Boisson and Francois Couturier of France-based polyacrylamide manufacturer SNF highlighted successful… Read More
President Donald Trump’s unexpected embrace of a half-billion dollar Soo Locks modernization project has given new momentum to a three-decade effort to update the aging freight passage infrastructure in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Speaking to a capacity crowd Saturday night during a campaign-style rally Total Sports Park in Washington Township, the first-term Republican promised to “fix”… Read More
A proposed £700,000 deal to secure the future for Perth Harbour has been described as a “game changer” by the leader of the council. Council chiefs agreed to move ahead with an offer from CalMac Ferries as the preferred bidder to take over the running of the Shore Road harbour operation. Councillors who attended a… Read More
APM Terminals Elizabeth in New Jersey, USA, took delivery of 4 STS cranes of the newest generation designed for operations on today’s largest container vessels, the port operator informs. The cranes reach 23 containers across the vessel beam and constitute part of the facility’s USD 200 mln infrastructure investment plan scheduled for completion this year…. Read More
What is claimed to be the smallest amphibious dredger in the World has been launched by a Dutch company, Waterking. This compact dredger is designed to facilitate the clearance and deepening of small waterways and lakes and it has been made compact enough to allow it to be road transportable thus widening the use of… Read More
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer today doubled down on his push to secure federal funding to fully repair Army Corps of Engineer-owned infrastructure in Sodus Bay, including the Sodus Bay Breakwater and the Charles Point steel wall that were damaged in last summer’s Lake Ontario floods. Specifically, Schumer is calling on the U.S…. Read More
Trial run for container movement by Chennai Port Trust leaves heavy silt at the river mouth The operationalisation of the port will be delayed because of heavy silt formation at the mouth of the harbour after the Chennai Port Trust conducted a trial run for container movement. The Public Works Department had taken up dredging… Read More
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has approved the permit application for the Centerm Expansion Project and South Shore Access Project. The decision was made after a thorough and robust project and environmental review, including three rounds of public consultation and extensive technical studies to understand the potential impacts of the project and proposed mitigations. Centerm… Read More
Several ships carrying cargoes of sorghum from the United States to China have changed course since Beijing slapped hefty anti-dumping deposits on U.S. imports of the grain, trade sources and a Reuters analysis of export and shipping data showed. Sorghum is a niche animal feed and a tiny slice of the billions of dollars in… Read More
WASSP, the professional multibeam sounder manufacturer, showcased its next-generation sonar solution to conference delegates at this year’s Danish Ports Conference. The WASSP multibeam sounder delivers water column and seabed profiling with 224 beams, offering significant improvements in speed and accuracy over conventional single-beam echo sounders. WASSP’s multibeam sonar represents ground-breaking technology that places the New… Read More
By Ahmad Ghaddar and Libby George LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) – Shipping industry hopes that so-called sulphur scrubbers are a quick-fix solution to compliance with drastic emissions reduction demanded by 2020 are somewhat misguided, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of the equipment told Reuters. The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) cut to the amount of… Read More
More than three years after work on the first phase of the mega Tuas Terminal began, the authorities have awarded a billion-dollar reclamation project for the next phase to a joint venture made up of contractors from Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands. A consortium comprising Japan’s Penta-Ocean Construction Company, South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering &… Read More
Eight bipartisan members of Texas’ Congressional delegation recently sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urging the agency to provide additional funding for the Port of Corpus Christi’s Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP). The port received $32 million last year through the Project Partnership Agreement. The delegation members believe the additional discretionary… Read More