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A REPORT claiming the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is set to fail is “mischievous”, Assistant Water Minister Anne Ruston says. The South Australian Senator said the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, which released the report on Monday, were “just trying to stir a possum”. The group argues that to deliver the Murray-Darling Basin Plan “in full… Read More
Port Canaveral recently approved more than $1.2 million to begin work on building a bigger and better Cruise Terminal 3 due to interest from cruise lines in adding more cruise ships to the port. The funds were approved by the Canaveral Port Authority commissioners as the port looks to the future and having more cruise… Read More
It will have taken 35 years to move five feet in the Delaware River – but they are five big feet. Five feet deeper. By this time next year, the channel-deepening project will have been completed. From an initial study by the Delaware River Port Authority in 1983, this project has consumed the attention of… Read More
GLOBAL ports industry powerbrokers have backed the development of Cairns’ Trinity Inlet to meet “crucial” environmental responsibilities while propelling the city’s economy forward. The general assembly of PIANC, also known as the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure, met in Cairns for the first time this week. It comes less than a fortnight after Treasurer… Read More
The Brazilian government is putting together a new infrastructure investment plan – Advance – to replace the Accelerated Growth Programme, first introduced in 2007. This latest initiative has been motivated by the 1% growth in GDP recorded in the first quarter of this year. The new investment programme aims to inject $16bn into various sectors… Read More
Environmental projects from the Lake Erie shores of Monroe to the Manistique River in the Upper Peninsula are threatened by proposed state and federal budget cuts. The federal budget proposed by President Donald Trump eliminates funding for Great Lakes restoration work, while the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality could lose as much as $40 million… Read More
As the State Ports Authority prepares this month to set an annual record for containerized cargo, the maritime agency’s board of directors on Wednesday approved a budget that would set even higher marks during the coming fiscal year. The SPA expects to finish fiscal 2017, which ends June 30, with a record 1.19 million cargo… Read More
Granting of a 25-year maintenance dredging and disposal consent for the Otago Harbour channel will allow Port Otago to cater for increasingly bigger ships on the New Zealand coast. Geoff Plunket, outgoing Port Otago Chief Executive, said the latest dredging consent, granted by the Environment Court earlier this month, puts in place all the necessary… Read More
Union Minister for Road, Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate cargo operations which will resume from the port here in August. Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Tuesday met Mr. Gadkari and apprised him of the progress of port development works. Mr. Gadkari has agreed to attend the inaugural function, slated to be held… Read More
Port Tampa Bay is moving forward with plans to widen and deepen the Big Bend Channel after securing instrumental state and federal funding for the project. The port was awarded a $5.7 million grant from the Florida Department of Transportation, which will be used toward the widening and deepening of the Big Bend Channel. The… Read More
The Port of Tauranga’s successful establishment as the only New Zealand port call for Maersk and Hamburg Sud’s big ship services is going to change New Zealand’s ports, says board chariman David Pilkington today. Speaking at an on-wharf celebration today of the port’s handling one million twenty foot equivalent containers in one year, David says… Read More
Port of Tauranga today celebrated a new record of more than one million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) processed in a year – a first for any New Zealand port. The milestone cements Port of Tauranga’s position as the busiest container port in New Zealand. The one millionth TEU crossed the wharf on 6 June… Read More
Statistics from the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) indicate that about 3,800 kilometers of the nation’s waterways are navigable seasonally, with 28 out of the 36 states of the federation accessible by water. Besides, Nigeria can also link five of its neighbouring countries through water, namely-Benin Republic (Port Novo), Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Chad and Niger… Read More
The Nigerian Ports Authority has threatened to sever ties with its joint ventures partners unless they come clean on recently-uncovered allegations of corruption, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. The threat was handed down at a meeting Thursday, as ports’ management officials scrambled to contain the fallout of an audacious bribery scandal that calls the operational ethics… Read More
The Maersk Shanghai slipped into Government Cut before dawn Wednesday and headed to its berth at PortMiami, becoming the largest container ship to ever call at a Florida port. The 1,063-foot-long, 159-foot-wide megaship is almost the length of three football fields. Before PortMiami underwent a widening and dredging of its shipping channel from 44 feet… Read More