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The government may not go ahead with the signing of an agreement with a joint venture company that was earlier tasked to clear the Wular lake of the encroachments on its banks and the bottom, highly placed sources indicated. “There are serious procedural issues involved,” one well-informed source in the government said. “It has been… Read More
Government is poised to spend $100 million to reclaim lands destroyed by activities of illegal miners in the country through the Multi-sectorial Mining Integrated Project (MMIP). The five-year project is an initiative of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) aimed at combating ‘galamsey’ and also sanitizing the artisanal small-scale miners in the country…. Read More
With Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurating the Shahid Beheshti Port at Chabahar on Sunday, India stands to gain not only strategically but on the trade front, too. While strategically Chabahar will counter China’s development of the Gwadar port in Pakistan, experts say it will also open up the lucrative central Asian markets for Indian products… 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
Germany’s top administrative court has ruled that the deepening of the Elbe River in Hamburg should go ahead so massive containerships can reach Hamburg Port, despite environmental concerns. According to DW, the case went to court after plans to deepen the Elbe River to a depth of 15.6 metres were announced and environmentalists registered a… Read More
Perth Harbour is facing an uncertain future after a dramatic drop in visiting vessels. Council chiefs are poised to order a review of the once thriving port after a new study revealed the number of ships calling at the city had plummeted from 300 a decade ago to just 20. It also emerged a much-needed… Read More