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Vladivostok, the nearest European cruise port to Asia, is witnessing a steady growth in its cruise business and is looking to develop as a transit call on 7 night ex-China sailings. Following a record 14 calls last year mainly from Japanese operators and Costa Cruises, more ships are expected in the 2018 season which started… Read More
The scabies on Indonesian rice farmer Yusuf Supriyadi’s limbs are a daily reminder of the costs of living next to the “world’s dirtiest river.” Supriyadi depends on the Citarum River’s murky waters — a floating carpet of household garbage, toxic chemicals and animal feces — to irrigate a small rice plot in West Java Province… Read More
Dubai Ports World has issued the following statement on its Doraleh Container Terminal S.A. in Djibouti: “The Government of Djibouti has illegally seized control of the Doraleh Container Terminal S.A. (the “Terminal”) from a Dubai Ports World (“DP World”) owned entity that designed, built and, since 2006, operated the Terminal pursuant to a concession awarded… Read More
DP World’s contract with Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT) was cancelled because of a dispute over terms and poor performance, claims the Djibouti Ports & Free Zones Authority (DPFZA). Following the Government of Djibouti’s seizure of DCT in February, DPFZA released a statement on Twitter which said that the original agreement excluded Djibouti from management of… Read More
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to change the way big-ticket maritime projects are funded after the Charleston Harbor deepening was omitted from the president’s budget for the next fiscal year. “My No. 1 priority for 2018 is to change the formula” for federal funding, the South Carolina Republican said Friday during a harbor deepening ceremony… Read More
In the six months since Hurricane Harvey battered the Houston region, local leaders have talked at length about not just restoring flood-damaged neighborhoods and infrastructure, but hardening the area against future disasters. Not surprisingly, much of that will depend on massive amounts of funding, much of it from the federal government. Houston’s Hurricane Harvey recovery… Read More
Port of Brownsville has moved closer to its own LNG export terminal by acquiring the US Coast Guard’s stamp of approval. The US Coast Guard has issued a Letter of Recommendation to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) confirming the suitability of the Brownsville Ship Channel for Texas LNG’s marine traffic as it relates to… Read More
The long-awaited new Barnstable County dredge has finally arrived on Cape Cod. Docked at the bulkhead at the entrance to Falmouth Inner Harbor, the dredge — dubbed the Sand Shifter — arrived on Tuesday after a six-hour trip from a Fairhaven shipyard. The nearly $2 million dredge is being delivered six months later than stipulated… Read More
As a vessel carrying two ship-to-shore cranes chugged toward the South Carolina coast last week, the State Ports Authority approved a bargain-basement deal for another pair of the massive structures that move cargo to and from container ships. “We negotiated and got a really good cost of $9.5 million per crane,” Jim Van Ness, the… Read More
Terminal Portuario de Manta (TPM), which is undertaking major regeneration wok at the northern Ecuadorian port, says it is working on five different projects simultaneously. The first is a 100 m extension of Quay 2, the second is access renovation to the international terminal and the third is the introduction of new weighbridges. Port authority… Read More
In Brazil, the Tribunal de Contas da União (Federal Court of Accounts) has given the go-ahead for tenders covering concessions for four terminals under the central government’s Programa de Parcerias de Investimentos (Investments Partnerships Programme). In the Port of Paranaguá, the finished vehicles terminal is to be offered to investors, along with the wood pulp… Read More
Water and natural resource professionals from across the state met in Fredonia, Kansas to discuss the state of the Verdigris river area, including the four federal reservoirs at Fall River, Elk City, Big Hill and Toronto. The Kansas Water Office, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and Kansas… Read More
With autonomous vessels being planned for many aspects of the marine sector there is now news that a Russian company is planning to develop an autonomous dredger. Mikhail Chemodanov who is the technical director of Nonius Engineering Ltd announced the plans for this development at the Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging Congress which was held… Read More
The Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) and Myanmar Petroleum Trade Association (MPTA) have suggested that Myanmar directly import fuel oil from oil exporting countries in Asia. The move took place during a meeting with U Win Khine, Minister of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) at the UMFCCI… Read More
MMC Corp-owned Penang Port is allocating MYR180m ($46m) for expansion plans this year to boost capacity to 2.8m teu from 2m teu currently. Local media quoted Penang Port ceo Sasedharan Vasudevan as saying that capex, which will be internally funded, for the first phase expansion, for berth strengthening and purchase of two quay cranes to… Read More