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Aided by a rising economic tide, the Jacksonville Port Authority posted record numbers for shipping automobiles and cargo containers during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The port authority’s terminals broke through the 1 million mark for cargo container units, posting a 7-percent annual increase in shipments of the metal boxes that contain a… Read More
On a sunny September day, the arrival of the 14,400-TEU CMA CGM T. Roosevelt — the largest ship ever to call at the Port of New York and New Jersey, and one that until recently couldn’t reach most of the port’s main terminals — heralded the dawn of a new era at the East Coast’s… Read More
The Codrington Airport and the River Wharf in Barbuda are still far from ready to receive planes and large ferries. That is what OBSERVER media discovered during its visit to the sister isle late last week. The fence surrounding the Codrington Airport was still in a state of ruin, and large silt deposits are still… Read More
As the Narendra Modi government sets about transitioning 11 of the 12 major ports that are now run as trusts into authorities, the ports can take a lesson or two from Antwerp port in Belgium. The Antwerp Port Authority pays a dividend to the City of Antwerp, its sole shareholder. Contrast this with India’s major… Read More
After 27 years of waiting, it’s finally happening. That was the feeling for community leaders on Friday who witnessed the signing of a Project Partnership Agreement between the Port of Corpus Christi and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The deal is significant in that it finally allows work to move forward on expanding the… Read More
With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continuing to review whether PCB dredging in the upper Hudson River was successful, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and several members of Congress on Friday urged more dredging. The letter to EPA Administrator E. Scott Pruitt said the legislators have “serious concerns” with whether the $1.7 billion dredging project conducted… Read More
Concerned of how large-scale Mississippi River diversions will affect the coastal communities in south Louisiana, the state’s Shrimp Task Force will send a letter to local politicians and stakeholders recommending dredging instead. The letter, which will “highlight the vast negative impact the proposed large-scale Mississippi waste-water diversions will have on coastal communities,” will be sent… Read More
Georgia’s Port of Brunswick, currently the No. 2 auto port in the U.S., announced a planned 50 percent increase in roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) capacity increase and future plans to expand automobile processing spaces at the annual State of the Ports address. The Port of Brunswick – the second largest roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) facility in the United States… Read More
Panama broke ground Wednesday for its $166m cruise terminal at Panama City’s Amador Causeway, near the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. The development of this new homeport on Perico Island is driven by the national government through the Panama Maritime Authority. It will allow many thousands of passengers to embark on cruises from Panama,… Read More
In the Texas Senate’s first public hearing since Hurricane Harvey, members of the Committee on Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs talked for hours about a host of ways to mitigate flooding related to stressed reservoirs in the Houston region. Six weeks after the biggest rain event in U.S. history inundated large swaths of southeast Texas,… Read More
The Nigerian Ports Authority NPA has admitted that some of its members of staff were truly involved in the one million Swiss Francs scandal rocking one of its Joint Venture Partners, Dredging International Services, a Swiss firm. This is even as the agency said it is awaiting further directives on the matter from the Attorney… Read More
Advocates for modernizing the Mississippi River Ship Channel that connects the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans’ Industrial Canal via the Intracoastal Waterway are eagerly awaiting the final Army Corps of Engineers report on the economic justification for deepening the channel to 50 feet from the gulf to the Port of Baton Rouge. The Mississippi… Read More
Archer Daniels Midland’s highest priority in any infrastructure package that Congress and the Trump administration develops would be modernization of the Mississippi River locks and dams that feed ADM’s state-of-the-art facility here, executives said after a tour. “This is the end of the pipe, but you have to have work done at the beginning of… Read More
Tradepoint Atlantic and the Baltimore County government hope to land a $25 million grant that would help pay to upgrade the port at the industrial campus in Sparrows Point. The money could come from a federal program that funds transportation projects that can spur economic development. Tradepoint Atlantic, the company that’s redeveloping the former Sparrows… Read More
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said Thursday that Washington needs to “step up” with more money to deepen the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah, where larger ships arriving through an expanded Panama Canal have pushed cargo volumes to record highs. The Army Corps of Engineers began dredging 39 miles of the Savannah River between… Read More