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Port Fantasy marina, situated in the integrated tourism resort development in Wailoaloa, Nadi is designed as two areas, each operating separately from the other. There is one island dedicated to handling physical tourism and a totally separated island for industrial and freight activity. A number of lots of different sizes were created so that different… Read More
In 2011 Nigeria opened her doors to the largest container vessel ever to call on any West African port called West African Max (WAFMAX) which has 4,500 twenty equivalent units (TEUs) capacity on a single voyage. The vessel which requires a minimum of 13.5 meters draught was brought into Apapa port by Maersk Nigeria Limited…. Read More
Container ships bound for Houston called on other ports as Hurricane Harvey slogged its way across the upper Texas coast and into the history books. For weeks after the storm’s massive floodwaters receded, trucking companies lost revenue and endured delays. And still today, a heavy buildup of silt is blocking many of the barges that… Read More
Dredging is the process of excavating sediment deposits, trash, and other debris from the harbor floor and disposing of them elsewhere. An essential aspect of harbor maintenance, dredging is routinely performed in ports around the world for a variety of reasons. The main purpose of this process is to maintain the depth of existing ports… Read More
The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at the Colorado River is impassable after Hurricane Harvey, leading some to worry that products from the Crossroads aren’t making it to the global market efficiently. Specifically, the waterway’s west lock on the Colorado River near the community of Matagorda is closed to both commercial and recreational traffic. There, the U.S…. Read More
The Dutchess County Executive and local leaders went to the Poughkeepsie waterfront Monday, calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to require more PCB cleanup of the Hudson River. This comes as the agency considers public comment on its five-year review. Republican Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro urges the EPA to take further action. “And we… Read More
The Queensland government has signed off on the contract for the construction of a new $3 million dredge facility on the Gold Coast, opening the way for larger vessels to access the Coomera marine precinct. The Coomera Dredged Sediment Management Facility (CDSMF) will take sediment from a 14 kilometre stretch of the Coomera River and… Read More
Deeper, wider, safer. Or wider, deeper, safer. Either way, you get the idea. They’ve been the port community’s mantras for years and now it looks like the vision is a little closer to becoming a reality. A rough draft of a plan backed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommends that the port be… Read More
A meeting between top brass at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Gov. John Bel Edwards Monday on the long-stalled Comite River Diversion flood-control project left the governor feeling encouraged — but left open key questions over project funding. The Corps’ commanding officer, Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, called the Comite River project “critically… Read More
New infrastructure and a lift in cargo, cruise ship and logging volumes has given Port Nelson a net profit of $10.8 million, a result that also boosts council coffers. The company reported an operating profit of $22.8 million for the 2016-17 financial year, up on the $18.3m for the previous year. The net profit after… Read More
Less than a year after Edisto Beach dug out from Hurricane Matthew, Irma leveled dunes that had been rebuilt 15 feet (5 meters) high, flooding the barrier island anew and filling its roadways with sand. So now, following a nearly $19 million project that pumped more than 900,000 cubic yards (688,000 cubic meters) of sand… Read More
As the Port of Charleston greeted it biggest ship to date, the federal government announced a deal to ensure a new generation of supersized cargo vessels won’t run aground, even at low tide. The Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that its local office awarded the first construction contract for the long-planned deepening of Charleston… Read More
The port of Hamburg may have prevented further declines in the first half of 2017, but the delays surrounding the expansion of the Elbe Fairway continue to cost the German gateway. Container volumes for the period were flat on last year’s at 4.45m teu, and while some saw this as a welcome respite after two… Read More
Muscat finalised the construction contract on a key downstream scheme at Duqm on the east-central coast in late August. The move was spurred by the long-awaited award earlier in the month of the main packages on the greenfield refinery that forms the centrepiece of the new economic hub under development at the site. The government’s… Read More
August container volumes at the nation’s busiest port climbed by 6.1 percent compared to August 2016 volumes. 847,857 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) came through the Port of Los Angeles, marking the busiest August and the second-busiest month in the port’s 110-year history. Eight months into 2017, Port container volumes are 9 percent ahead of 2016,… Read More