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The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) on Tuesday has issued a tender for the dredging works at two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports. The dredging project with an estimated cost of about 18 million U.S. dollars will be carried out in the Mariupol port in eastern Donetsk region and the Berdyansk port in southern Zaporozhe region,… Read More
Washington lawmakers are right to press President Donald Trump’s administration to fund much needed maintenance and upgrades at the Ballard Locks in Seattle. In a letter sent Friday, a coalition of representatives urged Trump and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fund the locks improvements in their 2018 and 2019 budgets. This work is… Read More
A year ago, beach advocates hoped they were a step closer to finding a potential solution to an offshore sand shortage in Southeast Florida. The 2016 Water Resources Development Act authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study using foreign sand, such as from the Bahamas, to widen shorelines without resorting to expensive and… Read More
Three companies will pay more than $4.5 million in settlement payments to resolve claims they polluted the Sheboygan River. The three companies — Tecumseh Products Co., Thomas Industries, Inc. and Wisconsin Public Service Corp — agreed to the settlements long after a multi-million dredging and cleanup effort of the Sheboygan River has finished. Kohler Co.,… Read More
Following the collapse of Jati Padang dike in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, after heavy rain last week, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said the city administration would dredge Pulo River to restore the levee’s function. Jati Padang dike has collapsed several times this year, causing flooding in nearby residential areas. Anies said this continues to happen… Read More
The amount of containerized goods moving through the Port of Charleston continues to outpace last year’s record-breaking total despite a seasonal slowdown in November, the State Ports Authority said Friday. A total of 92,329 containers moved through the port’s terminals last month — about 6.7 percent fewer than a year ago. The authority said the… Read More
The Sri Lankan government has approved a proposal to build a tunnel to link the Chinese-built ‘Port City’ reclamation project with Colombo’s road network under a private-public partnership (PPP) model, a spokesman said. The government will enter in to an agreement with the developer, CHEC Port City Colombo (Pvt.) Ltd, a subsidiary of China Harbour… Read More
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that he and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will file a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force continued PCB-dredging of the Hudson River if the agency determines there is no additional cleanup necessary. The state has been pushing General Electric Co. to do more after it completed… Read More
Mexico’s Mazatlán port authority (API Mazatlán) has canceled a tender to carry out dredging works to increase the depth of the port navigation channel, which was launched on November 29. “The works related to the tender are being canceled while [the authority] confirms the availability of the funds approved for this project,” a note posted… Read More
The conversion into dual fuel of Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) Samuel de Champlain is now in its active preparation phase. It is the main part of the EU-funded S/F SamueLNG Project, lead by French DRAGAGES-PORTS EIG, which has the overall aim to improve the sustainability of marine traffic through the use of marine liquefied… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dropped its challenge to a federal judge’s ruling that the agency abused its discretion when it refused to dredge the six-mile Cleveland Harbor and Cuyahoga River shipping channel in 2015. Senior U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent ruled in May that the Army Corps erred two years ago when it… Read More
Captain of Ports (CoP) Department will continue to hold rights over dredging of rivers even as six Goan rivers have been declared as National Waterways. While the Goa government has already explained the consequences if the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is not signed, a major gain for the… Read More
The Payra Port Authority and Belgium-based company Jan De Nul on Monday signed an agreement to jointly conduct capital dredging on the main channel of the country’s third seaport Payra in Patuakhali. Chairman of Payra Port Authority Commodore Jahangir Alam and Jan De Nul’s Managing Director Jan Piter De Nul signed the contract on behalf… Read More
Drewry’s latest five-year global container port demand forecast is 4.3% per annum, up from last year. The maritime consultancy made the announcement in its summary of the key trends and developments in the global container port and terminal industry. Projected port capacity expansion is 2.7% per annum, so average utilisation levels will rise, said Drewry…. Read More
The historic “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” legislation approved Dec. 2 in the U.S. Senate and a somewhat different version approved on Nov. 16 in the House of Representatives each contain provisions that would reduce or curtail much-needed tax support for investments in America’s infrastructure, including seaports. As the united voice of the nation’s ports,… Read More