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Seychelles wants to preserve its waters, essential according to the government to the economic development of the country. The government will establish a large marine protected area within the archipelago in the Indian Ocean which is 210,000 km², nearly 15% of Seychelles’ exclusive economic zone. The reserve is part of the blue economy concept, in… Read More
DETERMINED to leave backlash from past channel widening works in the past, Gladstone Ports Corporation has started early discussions for a project more than five years away. The company has taken a collaborative approach as it prepares to lodge an Environmental Impact Statement this year for the proposed duplication of Gatcombe and Golding Cutting Channels…. Read More
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has commenced arrangements to facilitate the dredging of Calabar Port, in Cross River State. The Calabar Port is one of the ports that had suffered so much in the past due to shallow waters, and controversies surrounding the dredging of the channel, but the Managing Director, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman,… Read More
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) in Batangas feels the prospect of making the port a hub for international cruises is “not so good.” Lawyer Leopoldo Biscocho, PPA Batangas Port manager, said there were a lot of factors to consider and the port may not be ready soon. “Not in the next 5 years. It would… Read More
THE Port of Newcastle has denied responsibility for Stockton beach’s erosion crisis and said it was already doing its bit to help the community. There is mounting pressure on the port owners to assist fund a long-term solution to the erosion problem that is largely caused by the Harbour-entrance breakwaters. But a spokeswoman for the… Read More
Chemical companies are pressing federal officials to spend billions of dollars on a coastal flood control system near Houston to protect petrochemical plants, oil refineries and shipping infrastructure from the next hurricane. The coastal spine, as the project is called, is among the most important infrastructure investments needed to mitigate damage from major storms, Bob… Read More
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority today released the 2017 year-end statistics for cargo through the Port of Vancouver. Overall cargo volume through the port reached a record high of 142.1 million tonnes, up five per cent from 2016. Sectors experiencing strong growth include containers and bulk grain, both of which hit new records in 2017…. Read More
Understanding and predicting coastal flooding is a challenging and urgent problem in the presence of sea-level rise, a changing climate, and ever-growing coastal populations. Although this issue is global in scale, understanding and predicting flooding along tropical coral reef-lined shorelines presents unique challenges owing to the complexity of these shorelines which have been little studied… Read More
American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has urged the US Government to up spending for the US Army Corps of Engineers and the department of transportation in the FY 2018 budget. AAPA’s letter to House and Senate appropriators, which identifies US$66bn in port-related infrastructure federal investment needs over the next decade and calls for the… Read More
Major environmental restoration work could be coming to the Quincy Bay area if a federal grant is awarded for the project. If completed, deeper water depths needed to support fish habitats would be restored in the area, and sediment accumulation in Quincy Bay could be reduced substantially. The proposed $20 million project would include dredging… Read More
Tradepoint Atlantic — the massive redevelopment project at the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County — will get $20 million from the federal government to upgrade its port facilities, officials have announced. The money comes from a U.S. Department of Transportation program that funds projects that can spur economic development. The project will… Read More
These days there are a variety of methods aimed at making breakwater construction smarter; one is simply how the blocks are placed. So it is with the 3-kilometre breakwater at the new development of Safi in Morocco where waves of 12-15 metres come in that can lift a five-tonne rock. While placing of the ‘armour’… Read More
Kongsberg Maritime’s Oceanology International 2018 (Oi18) stand (D600) will be dedicated to the “Digital Ocean”, a concept that harmonises data flow and processing from the seabed to the office. The Digital Ocean is enabled by the combination of KONGSBERG’s leading underwater technology for the collection of data, the interconnectivity to distribute the data and the… Read More
Teledyne CARIS™ is pleased to announce the release of CARIS Onboard™ 2.0. CARIS Onboard enables users to apply processes automatically to their data in near real-time, resulting in minimized data conversion and processing times. By making the processed products available at the office or on a survey vessel during survey operations, CARIS Onboard helps improve… Read More
The Port of Corpus Christi is keeping the pressure on the federal government to fund the port’s $327 million channel improvement project. Sean Strawbridge, the port’s chief executive officer, testified in a hearing before the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy and Environment on Tuesday in Washington D.C. The committee met to examine the… Read More