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Texas crude oil is being shipped worldwide at ever higher rates as foreign markets get used to the taste of light sweet crude. Port Corpus Christi, a major refining center on the U.S. Gulf Coast, is now becoming a major hub for U.S. crude oil exports. More than 70 percent of the crude oil moved… Read More
Operadora Portuaria Centroamericana, which operates the Honduran Port of Puerto Cortés, is to invest $624m over the next 14 years to enable it to handle neo-panamax vessels transiting the Panama Canal. The work will involve boosting quay capacity, which it is hoped will enable Honduras to become a logistics hub for the Americas. Simultaneously, the… Read More
A cooperative multi-entity task force created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting Dec. 5 in Houghton County, kicking off long-term efforts to save the important lake trout and whitefish spawning areas on Buffalo Reef from being covered with shifting stamp sands. The meeting has been scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday,… Read More
Chinese investors are looking to build a US$1bn port on Peru’s central coast. That is according to Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. “There’s a Chinese group that’s ready to finance this US$1.4bn project. It’s huge,” he told BN Americas. He also said that the Kuczynski government is backing new port concessions in Salaverry and Chimbote… Read More
A rejig of port management is taking place in Mexico. According to the Ministry of Transport (SCT), overall responsibility for ports is being transferred from the Naval Secretariat (Semar), which has been in charge for the past three years, to civilian control. This has prompted the replacement of many senior directors. Jorge Luis Cruz Ballado… Read More
Governor Kate Brown, the Port of Portland, and Business Oregon today announced that Swire Shipping will begin container shipping service at the Port of Portland’s Terminal 6. The announcement follows Governor Brown’s recent trade mission trip to Hong Kong, where the Governor and Port representatives met with Swire corporate executives. This new shipping option is… Read More
Nigerian citizens in Hungary have petitioned the Hungarian government kicking against the proposed 54 million Euro loan deal the country intends to give the Nigerian Ministry of Water Resources, describing the loan deal as a fraud and misplaced priority. A letter addressed to the Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, signed by the President of the… Read More
Dredging at the port of Rio de Janeiro will enable it to handle ships of 10,000 to 12,000 TEU, positioning it to build on recently won services. The port now has a draft of 13.3 meters (43.6 feet) at low tide that will go to 13.7 meters when dredging work now under way is complete… Read More
A major integrated project to develop a port and an adjoining industrial zone in Tanzania by the Sultanate’s State General Reserve Fund (SGRF), along with its partner China Merchants Ports (CMPorts), has received approval from the Government of Tanzania. The proposal included dredging of the navigational channel, construction of a port and logistics park, and… Read More
The mudflow in the West Flood Channel (KBB) in Tanah Abang, has overflown and was in need to be dredged. Dredging is urgently required to restore the canal depth as a flood mitigation control, the Govt. officials then employed heavy equipment for this purpose in the West Flood Canal area. It is to prevent further… Read More
The largest dredger under IRClass named “SHANTI SAGAR – 17” of 8000 cu.m capacity has been successfully delivered to the Owners – Adani ports and SEZ Ltd by the yard – IHC Holland B.V at Netherlands, Europe. The vessel is a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) constructed under the special survey of Indian Register of… Read More
Minister of Transportation Hisham Arafat and Canal Authority chairman Mohab Mamesh will travel Sunday to Germany to present investment opportunities in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone). Head of the Egyptian-Korean Business Council Raouf Ghabbour said Saturday that a delegation of 11 Korean companies will visit Egypt next month to study the execution of investment… Read More
State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos and other DEC officials have suggested that more testing for PCBs in the lower Hudson River, including spots near Columbia and Greene counties, should be conducted if the federal government has not kept its part of the bargain to clean up the waterway. The DEC is calling… Read More
The current surge in wildfires will double the rate at which reservoirs throughout the West fill up with mud, according to a sweeping study of erosion by the United States Geological Survey. One-third of the 471 large watersheds in the western U.S. will see a doubling in erosion in the next 33 years. An estimated… Read More
Port of Tauranga’s timing was perfect. Two weeks after completing its $350 million, 10-year development programme, the first large post-panamax container ship sailed past Mauao and into the beautiful harbour. When Maersk began its weekly Triple Star service in August last year — sending 9500 TEU (20-foot equivalent units) container ships to Tauranga — it… Read More