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“What we know now is that nature can do a lot of the work for you, if you bring in environmental considerations at the beginning,” said Gerard van Raalte, author, lecturer and recently, winner of CEDA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The problem in the past has been that harbour or coastal programmes were largely designed with… Read More
On the heels of a record performance in 2017, the Port of Montreal has moved an important step further to establish a sixth container terminal, located at Contrecoeur, where there is an existing bulk shipping facility 25 miles away on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. It released an environmental impact report on… Read More
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources Ministry yesterday recommended buying more dredgers and continuing dredging works in the rivers across the country round the year. The committee also suggested the ministry to take initiatives for increasing the water flows in the rivers, said a Parliament Secretariat handout. The committee came up with the recommendations… Read More
Louisiana aims to get a handle on coastal flooding and land loss, and it’s looking to the Dutch for advice. “The Dutch have been protecting their coastline for the last 800 years,” said Justin Ehrenwerth, CEO of Baton Rouge-based research group Water Institute of the Gulf, speaking at a luncheon Wednesday in downtown Lake Charles…. Read More
The operator of the Port of Baltimore brought in six new cranes to help handle the increasing amount cargo coming into the Seagirt Marine Terminal. Ports America Chesapeake, which operates the port’s Seagirt container terminal, purchased the six rubber-tired gantry yard cranes for $12 million, or $2 million per crane. The cranes are used to… Read More
Newport Beach is considering a so-called port master plan that would give the city greater control over harbor capital improvements. City Manager Dave Kiff floated the idea to the City Council at its annual planning session Monday, describing the port master plan as an in-the-water equivalent to a state-sanctioned Local Coastal Program. With a Local… Read More
The federal Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct additional studies of the Hudson River as it considers the effectiveness of a $1.7 billion Superfund cleanup. The agency Monday said it will conduct supplemental studies of the lower river and has begun analyzing 1,800 sediment samples taken by New York state, which contends more work… Read More
Six energy company CEOs sent a letter to the White House on January 29, urging support of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project. The text of the letter is below: We are collectively writing to express our unequivocal support for Port of Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP) and ask that you include… Read More
Gov. Jay Inslee has rejected a massive oil-by-rail terminal along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Wash., dealing one more, major blow to projects that would use Northwest ports for shipment of oil and coal. Inslee cited the potential of a “catastrophic” earthquake, and dangers of an oil spill to aquatic life along the Columbia River…. Read More
Situated in Southern Mozambique, Port of Maputo had a good run in in 2017. The port handled 18.2 million tonnes of cargo last year against 14.9 million tonnes in 2016, registering a surge of 22 percent in volumes. The result was positively affected by the dredging of the access channel to the Port of Maputo,… Read More
Thirty years is a long time by human standards, and the blink of an eye at the geological level. For Stewart Farrell, director of the Stockton University Coastal Research Center in Port Republic, it is an informative time frame. The center’s New Jersey Beach Profile Network has been studying how the state’s developed shoreline changed… Read More
Agents of the National Anti-corruption Bureau (NABU) under the procedural leadership of the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have launched a crackdown in the city of Kyiv and two southern regions, Odesa and Mykolaiv. Raids are being conducted on January 29 as part of an investigation related to possible facts of abuse of office when… Read More
Pointing to massive flooding during Hurricane Harvey and other recent rain events, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing a massive study of flooding in the Houston area to examine drainage systems, a changing climate and the impact of paving more undeveloped prairie and rural land. The Metropolitan Houston Regional Watershed Assessment would look… Read More
SOUTH Australia has no choice — widen the shipping channel at Port Adelaide or accept a long, slow and painful economic death. Virtually all (99 per cent) of our imports and exports (by weight) travel by sea — and therefore the docks at Outer Harbor are SA’s economic lifeline to the world. Failure to widen… Read More
The world’s first fully electric, emission-free and potentially crewless container barges are to operate from the ports of Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam from this summer. The vessels, designed to fit beneath bridges as they transport their goods around the inland waterways of Belgium and the Netherlands, are expected to vastly reduce the use of diesel-powered… Read More