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RF President Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions following an August 3, 2017, meeting on implementation of large-scale investment projects in the Russian Far East, says official website of the Kremlin. Taking into account the President’s previous instructions, the Government should provide financing for the investment project to modernise the railway infrastructure of the… Read More
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority today released its 2017 mid-year statistics for trade through the Port of Vancouver. Overall cargo through the Port of Vancouver has increased four per cent to 69 million metric tonnes (MMT) over the same time last year with mid-year records in bulk grain and containers. Container quantities (measured by TEUs… Read More
Questions remain over the future of the port of Westport a year after cement firm Holcim pulled out of the region. With Holcim now gone, council-owned company Westport Harbour is facing a loss of over $1m in the coming year that would be expected to be carried by ratepayers. At a meeting on Wednesday, the… Read More
Teledyne CARIS™ announces the release of Bathy DataBASE™ (BDB) 4.4. This new version addresses the important areas of feature generalization and automation of product generation for chart compilation, as well as the increasing emphasis on bathymetric Lidar surveys. A collection of new techniques for generalizing bathymetry in chart compilation workflows can be found in BASE… Read More
New York State on Thursday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a plan to dump large quantities of dredged sediment in eastern Long Island Sound. The lawsuit, filed by the state attorney general’s office in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, seeks to block the EPA from adding a third dumping site near Fishers Island… Read More
City council members have raised questions regarding the project, which some members say has side-lined them. Two members of Jacksonville City Council in Florida have expressed their wish for talks about deepening the state’s longest river to move into public sessions to assess the project, a venture that may require $150m from the city. John… Read More
Construction at the Port of Rauma container terminal is progressing well. First part (60 meters) of the new container quay was taken in use on Monday August 14th, 2017. After the addition, the total length of the container quay is now 215 meters.The container quay will be extended to 520 meters within the rest of… Read More
MORE than one million cubic metres of sand will be pumped from barges to create the base for Sunshine Coast Airport’s new runway. Sunshine Coast Airport expansion project director Ross Ullman said Sunshine Coast Council had gained two of the five State Government approvals it needed to undertake the works. Mr Ullman said an underground… Read More
South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA), which owns and operates public seaport facilities in Charleston, Georgetown and Greer, handled 1.3 million TEUs during the first seven months of 2017, up 13 percent year-over-year, SCPA said Monday. In July alone, SCPA moved 182,411 TEUs, the strongest July on record and an increase of 2.9 percent from 12… Read More
One of the first breakwater construction projects ever to use Trimble Marine Construction (TMC) Software and Teledyne BlueView sonar to collect motion-compensated 3D point clouds and create a 3D model from the moving barge platform in real time Overview Customer Profile: Manson Construction Co. (Manson) specializes in heavy civil marine construction and offers services including… Read More
JUST A few miles from the Maryland-Pennsylvania border lies the Conowingo Dam, an 88-year-old power station stopping the massive Susquehanna River, which is the source of much of the fresh water flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. Since bay cleanup began, states in the Chesapeake watershed have relied on the dam to limit the flow of… Read More
The draft at Santos, the largest container port in Brazil, is now 13 meters following the resumption of emergency dredging to put an end to draft restrictions that cost shippers and carriers millions of dollars. The 13-meter draft is an improvement on the previous depth of 12.6 meters, but still shy of the original draft… Read More
Port Panama City along Florida’s panhandle is gearing up for a new forest products terminal. The port has already begun construction on the terminal’s first 250,000-square-foot warehouse and related rail yards, with the project costing $20 million, Port Panama City Executive Director Wayne Stubbs told American Shipper. The total investment for the first phase of… Read More
Satellite pictures do not lie. Washington-based think tank Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Amti-CSIS) on Thursday disproved the claims of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano that China is no longer doing reclamation work on any of the disputed islands in the… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation has recommended to Congress that the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor receive one of 10 FASTLANE small project grants for 2017. The $9.85 million discretionary grant is part of a $19.7 million expansion of the port’s infrastructure that will increase cargo handling capacity and multimodal capabilities for the Lake Michigan port…. Read More