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Retailers, shippers and consumers breathed a sigh of relief as a first-of-its-kind contract extension was approved by dockworkers at all West Coast ports. The extension, ensuring labor peace at 29 ports in California, Oregon and Washington until 2022, was hailed by management and union officials who wanted to avoid labor strife that devastated the economy… Read More
A floating terminal will be built at the Chittagong port to help make the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal on the bank of the River Buriganga operational. Finance Minister AMA Muhith disclosed the information on Monday at a meeting with stakeholders at the Pangaon container terminal situated in Keraniganj. The minister said: “In the meeting, we… Read More
Thousands of creditors of bankrupt ocean carrier Hanjin Shipping can expect to get back less than two cents in the dollar, after it was revealed that claims approved so far total some KRW12tr ($10.5bn). The mind-boggling extent of the South Korean carrier’s indebtedness was revealed in a declaration and status report filed with the US… Read More
A company is threatening to fight former Kaduna State military governor Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd) for describing its job as a scam. Calabar Channel Management (CCM) Company Limited Managing Director Bart Van Eenoo is demanding ”an immediate apology and a retraction” from Umar, otherwise the former governor would ”leave our company with no other… Read More
Accusing the Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi of systematically trying to stall development projects, Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Tuesday said his government would go ahead with the port project as planned. Addressing a press conference here, Mr Narayanasamy said he was compelled to break his decision not to comment on Ms. Bedi after she came… Read More
Making way for literal boatloads of more tourists in Bali, the building of a cruise ship terminal at the island’s Benoa Port will begin in September, Indonesian officials announced last week. The decision to start construction next month comes after a meeting lead by Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan on August 1. The… Read More
A multimodal transportation infrastructure provides area manufacturers access to global markets, but there is a growing concern about the failure of the aging inland navigation system. The cost of addressing the backlog of critical maintenance projects along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System has increased 43 percent during the past two years — from about… Read More
The much-touted Puducherry port project undertaken in association with the Chennai Port Trust is in deep trouble as Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi has suggested dropping of the project and using the port land to develop tourism. A memorandum of understanding was signed between CPT and the Puducherry government in New Delhi on March 15 for… Read More
The Port of Antwerp, through its subsidiary Port of Antwerp International (PAI), is set to invest $10m in the Port of Açu in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The industrial deep-sea port was chosen by PAI, among other reasons, because of its strategic location near oil and gas fields and its proximity… Read More
Alliance for good governance (AGG), a forum of eco-friendly organisations in Puducherry, has urged the Puducherry government to delink the beach restoration project and port development project. In representations addressed to the lt governor Kiran Bedi, chief minister V Narayanasamy and chief secretary Manoj Parida, the forum charged that the port department has been diverting… Read More
It was just before sunset as Jim Jaffee walked along the beach beside a row of sea walls. Concrete was bolted against the bluffs to protect multimillion-dollar homes, perched along the top, from falling into the rhythmic tides below. Waves rolled in. Some landed at the walls, leaving no dry sand. High tide was still… Read More
At WEDA’s 2017 Dredging Summit held in Vancouver in June, Seafloor Systems introduced their latest EchoBoat unmanned surface vessel (USV) with fully integrated PicoMB Multibeam system. Seafloor Systems specializes in providing customized sonar solutions for the hydrographic, dredging, and research communities. It provides complete, integrated, turnkey multibeam systems scaled to meet individual performance requirements and… Read More
INDICATIONS are rife that the Federal Government is set to revoke some Joint Venture (JV) contracts between the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and some of its JV partners handling dredging and channel management of the nations seaports in the Eastern flanks of the nation waterways. This is even as findings revealed that this JV contracts… Read More
Kalibo, the capital of Aklan province, should go beyond its tag as the gateway to world-famous Boracay Island. “We should not forget Kalibo and its tourism potential,” said Governor Florencio (Joeben) Miraflores during his State of the Province Address (SOPA) last Thursday. Miraflores highlighted in the SOPA that Kalibo should not lag behind in terms… Read More
Sri Lanka signed a long delayed $1.1 billion deal on Saturday to lease its southern Hambantota port to China ignoring an appeal by opposition parties to debate the pact in parliament. The deal was signed between the two state firms — Sri LankaPorts Authority (SLPA) and China Merchants Port Holdings<0144.HK> to handle the commercial operations… Read More