September and October were record months for many of the nation’s ports as shippers prepared for a busy holiday shopping season and rushed to get cargo into the U.S. ahead of the Trump administration’s tariffs against several nations, including China. The Port of Los Angeles processed a record 952,554 20-foot-equivalent units, or TEUs, in October,… Read More
Dredging and reclamation for the International Multipurpose Deepwater Seaport at Vizhinjam, which came to a standstill after the Ockhi cyclone in November last and South West monsoon in June this year, is to resume in December. Granite needed for the construction of the remaining portion of the 3.1-km-long breakwater has started reaching the project site… Read More
Dredging is more than simply lifting sediment out of the water and moving it to somewhere else. This was once again obvious on November 19 and 20 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, when a conference was held with the theme, “Dredging for Sustainable Infrastructure.” The conference marked the launch of the book of the same name,… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced the award of more than $280 million from its Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (GEBF) to 21 new projects in the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Texas. Developed in consultation with state and federal resource agencies, the projects… Read More
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The deal is the second LOI to be signed by the BPA for the Maasvlakte Distribution Park West. Combined with the previous agreement, it now means up to 20 of its 100 hectares have been reserved for the proposed new warehouse, which will be used by multiple Korean service providers. The rest of the Maasvlakte… Read More
A government report recommends the Navy give more submarine repair work to private yards to save money. The study released Monday by the Government Accountability Office found that the Navy hadn’t “effectively allocated maintenance work between public and private shipyards,” The Day of New London, Connecticut, reported . Attack submarines lost more than 10,000 operational… Read More
There were no decisions by commissioners on two hefty Holmes Beach projects, but engineer Lynn Burnett is on the job — working with contractors and reporting her progress. Burnett updated commissioners on Spring Lake and city field — projects with $400,000-plus price tags — at their Nov. 13 meeting. Commissioners have vowed to fix Spring… Read More
If shipping is the life blood of global trade, ports are its heart, which continue to work day in and out to handle the ever-increasing volumes of cargo and container sizes. However, the pace of development on and off-shore has varied with ports remaining anchored to conventional methods of functioning in many ways. But not… Read More
Apparently moved by the plight of commuters, motorists and port users who come to Apapa metropolis on daily basis for business, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has assured Nigerians that efforts would be made by his administration to decongest the roads leading to the two major seaports in Lagos… Read More
The report on the “Dredger market“offers elaborated knowledge on the Dredger market. parts like dominating firms, classification, size, business atmosphere, SWOT analysis, and most effectual trends within the business area unit comprised during this analysis study. In this report, the global Dredger market is valued at USD XX million in 2018 and is expected to… Read More
Mercedes-Benz will be the first European automaker to deliver vehicles to Canada’s western provinces via an all-water route. SSA Marine, a marine terminal management company in Seattle, is developing an auto terminal for the tiny Port of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. A 60,000-square-foot former storage shed is being repurposed into a vehicle… Read More
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