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There was quite an accolade for Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) at the opening of the International Fair of Mozambique last year. MPDC received an award for being the country’s biggest investor in infrastructure during 2012-2016. The past few years have seen a transformation of the port, based on a masterplan envisaging $2bn of investment… Read More
On March 2, 2018, the largest vessel to ever berth at a port in Cameroon was accosted in Kribi. This was during the official commissioning of Kribi deepwater port which is considered the largest port infrastructure along the West African coast with a 15-16 meters draught. For the commissioning of this port, whose container terminal… Read More
The Initial Project At one time, over 4 million gallons (1,514 million liters) of toxic semi-treated sewage flowed into Palm Bay Florida’s Turkey Creek. As a result, Turkey Creek contained extremely high levels of harmful toxins and nutrients. During the spring of 2017, the team from Gator Dredging spent most of their time focused on… Read More
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