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Belgium headquartered global dredging contractor Jan De Nul has ordered three trailing suction hopper dredgers which will feature fully diesel-electric propulsion systems. Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard Co Ltd will build an 18,000 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger at its yard in China while Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd will build to 6,000 m3 trailers in Singapore. The… Read More
Plans for a deeper berth in Douglas to allow cruise liners to dock don’t take into account dredging costs. That’s the belief of the Treasurer of the Isle of Man Shipping Association. Russell Kent was speaking following Tynwald’s approval of the 2018 Harbours Strategy. Whilst the Association welcomed the document in recognising the major commercial… Read More
Officials with Port Fourchon are moving along with expanding the port’s ability to service the oil and gas industry. The Greater Lafourche Port Commission is working on a plan to deepen the Belle Pass entrance into Port Fourchon from 26 feet to 50 feet, as well as deepening part of Bayou Lafourche to 50 feet…. Read More
Indications are that the independent engineer for the Vizhinjam port project also may not be totally amenable to the Adani Group’s request for an extension of the deadline for phase I. The independent engineer is expected to submit its final report in a few days. Sources said the body is likely to recommend Adani Group… Read More
US members of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) have increased confidence their key priorities will be addressed after passage of an omnibus spending package to fund the federal government through September 30, 2018. The spending bill, which President Donald Trump signed on Friday, contains funding for a number of AAPA’s top infrastructure and… Read More
The Karachi Port Trust is investigating an incident in which two containerships collided at Karachi’s South Asia Port Terminal (SAPT). According to local media reports, the Hapag Lloyd vessel Tolten collided with the berthed Zodiac Maritime vessel Hamburg Bay. According to the Equasis data base, the Hamburg Bay is managed by Eastern Pacific Shipping U.K…. Read More
Searchers for the remaining nine crew members of a Chinese sand dredger that capsized off the coast of Johor last Wednesday stopped their underwater hunt this past weekend. Instead, the rescuers are focusing their efforts on some 360 nautical miles of sea surface on the Melaka Strait, around the site of the capsized JBB Rong… Read More
The House of Representatives on Thursday boosted the Corps of Engineers’ funding for fiscal year 2018, rejecting the Trump administration’s initial budget move to reduce waterways spending. The 256-167 vote for an omnibus appropriations bill set the Corps’ Civil Works mission at $6.83 billion, up by $789 million from fiscal year 2017 funding. The administration… Read More
Devastating bushfires which cut road and rail routes between Sydney and the Central Coast in 1994 have been held up as a critical reason Ettalong Channel must be dredged. The fires destroyed 225 homes in NSW including 101 in Sydney. At the peak of the fires all but one road and rail route out of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to expedite coastal resilience projects in the Rockaways a year earlier than the initial 2020 timeline after U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) secured $730 million in federal funds with the help of Mayor Bill de Blasio. The funds for the Sandy Supplemental Appropriation of 2013 will help… Read More
Stand out on the shore in downtown Corpus Christi or on the North Beach side of the Harbor Bridge, and you’re likely to see quite a sight. Large tankers or barges, some pushed by one or more tugboats, making their way across Corpus Christi Bay sail into the Port of Corpus Christi. Those vessels will… Read More
To gain the $19 million required to complete Phase V dredging in the Port of New Bedford, state Rep. Tony Cabral wants the parties involved to focus on $650,000. The number drawing Cabral’s focus is the amount needed to establish a design to execute the dredging. “I think it would be wise for all the… Read More
One crew member was killed and 14 others, most of them Chinese, were missing Wednesday after a sand-dredging vessel capsized off Malaysia, with some believed trapped alive inside the sunken hull. The coastguard said authorities in the southern state of Johor were alerted at 8:50 am that the vessel, the JBB Rong Chang 8, had… Read More
The public accounts committee (PAC) rapped the Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB) for irregularities in allotting land on lease to eight developers for ship building and maintenance without following the due procedure and not taking any action against illegal ship building. The committee said the developers did not comply with the conditions, including those related to… Read More
An effort to make the city of Norfolk more resilient against coastal storms passed a critical milestone last week. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Headquarters, approved the team to move forward in the study process by having the study pass the Agency Decision Milestone. That means Army Corps of Engineers leadership agreed with the… Read More