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The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), the united voice of America’s ports, was pleased that several important tax related policy priorities were addressed in the final “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” legislation passed today by Congress. These included provisions related to tax-exempt bond financing and wind energy production tax credits. “Public port authorities throughout… Read More
Close to 700 transient vessels are expected to berth at the Port Denarau Marina which will make it a record number for the niche port. This marina remains an integral part of the Fijian tourism infrastructure, providing access and being a link to all the resorts in the Yasawas and Mamanucas. Tour operators such as… Read More
Caterpillar Marine, partnering with Caterpillar Innovation & Technology Development Division (ITDD), is in the process of developing a proprietary advanced propulsion system for marine applications. The Cat® Marine Advanced Variable Drive™ (AVD™) is a patented system that leverages Caterpillar’s extensive experience with heavy duty continuously variable transmission (CVT) technology, advanced controls and power system integration… Read More
On December 22, after passing her sea trials and regulatory inspections, the newest vessel in Weeks Marine’s (“Weeks”) large and varied industrial work fleet, the Magdalen, was officially delivered by Eastern Shipbuilding just in time for the holidays. On December 28, she sailed from Panama City, FL on her maiden voyage to the East Coast…. Read More
Kongsberg released the EM 304, the third generation of their 30 kHz Multibeam Echo Sounder System, which is used for high resolution seabed mapping from depths of 10 metres to beyond the continental rises – deeper than 8000 metres. Developed as a low noise echo sounder with state-of-the-art electronics, the EM 304 delivers superior data… Read More
The Puducherry port will be ready to handle cargo operations by the end of this month or beginning of next year, Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy said here on Saturday. Addressing a press conference, the Chief Minister said Marg company, which operates the port at Karaikal, had taken over dredging from the Dredging Corporation of India…. Read More
Midway Beach, a small oceanfront community on the New Jersey shore, was barely impacted by Superstorm Sandy, due largely to the large sand dunes its nearly 400 homeowners built and maintained over the decades. Then, state officials told the community’s condominium association that the government was seizing the beach to make way for protective sand… Read More
Construction of the first three berths of the Lappset corridor project is 40 per cent complete, officials said on Thursday. The port will be the largest in East Africa. Members of the board of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport project toured the berths on Thursday and said they were satisfied with the progress…. Read More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated Chabahar port on Sunday, which is seen as seen as a strategy by India to counter China’s development of Gwadar port in Pakistan, barely 100 km from Iran’s Chabahar. The project in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by 60 foreign guests from 17 countries, including… Read More
The government has taken an initiative to conduct dredging at the outer bar in the 131-kilometre-long Pashur Channel to enhance Mongla Port’s ship handling capacity. The port cannot handle ships larger than 8.5-metre draft at the anchorage as its outer bar does not allow bigger ships. Some 104 lakh cubic metres of dredging will be… Read More
As maritime sector is going through a makeover, to understand the changing dynamics of dredging industry globally and in India in particular, Maritime Gateway caught up with Prof. Dr. George Yesu Vedha Victor, President, Mercator Limited; and Member of Board, EADA, & Secretary General, EADA (India) The Indian dredging industry is about 6.85 per cent… Read More
The city has begun active negotiations with Transport Canada towards a possible city takeover of the federally owned Owen Sound harbour. City manager Wayne Ritchie said Owen Sound has been given up to six months to negotiate and make its decision. “The stage we were at before was the very preliminary stage where our consultants… Read More
Germany’s Federal Administrative Court has dismissed the latest objections to the port of Hamburg’s plans to deepen the lower Elbe. But The Loadstar understands that nevertheless, it still has a few more hurdles to clear. Local news reported that the Leipzig-based court had thrown out claims from several neighbouring cities and commercial fishermen opposed to… Read More
Working together, naval architects in Europe and the US have developed a proposal to convert excess platform supply vessels into dredgers. In the wake of the well-documented downturn in the oil and gas markets in recent years, an increasing number of platform supply vessels (PSVs) are currently under-utilised or languishing in layup, most notably in… Read More
India’s Adani Ports has taken delivery of the largest dredger yet built under IRClass. Shanti Sagar, an 8000 m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger built by IHC Holland, is the first in the series of two dredgers ordered by Adani Ports. The second is at an advanced stage of construction and is expected to be… Read More