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Construction of the first three berths of the Lappset corridor project is 40 per cent complete, officials said on Thursday. The port will be the largest in East Africa. Members of the board of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport project toured the berths on Thursday and said they were satisfied with the progress…. Read More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated Chabahar port on Sunday, which is seen as seen as a strategy by India to counter China’s development of Gwadar port in Pakistan, barely 100 km from Iran’s Chabahar. The project in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by 60 foreign guests from 17 countries, including… Read More
The government has taken an initiative to conduct dredging at the outer bar in the 131-kilometre-long Pashur Channel to enhance Mongla Port’s ship handling capacity. The port cannot handle ships larger than 8.5-metre draft at the anchorage as its outer bar does not allow bigger ships. Some 104 lakh cubic metres of dredging will be… Read More
As maritime sector is going through a makeover, to understand the changing dynamics of dredging industry globally and in India in particular, Maritime Gateway caught up with Prof. Dr. George Yesu Vedha Victor, President, Mercator Limited; and Member of Board, EADA, & Secretary General, EADA (India) The Indian dredging industry is about 6.85 per cent… Read More
The city has begun active negotiations with Transport Canada towards a possible city takeover of the federally owned Owen Sound harbour. City manager Wayne Ritchie said Owen Sound has been given up to six months to negotiate and make its decision. “The stage we were at before was the very preliminary stage where our consultants… Read More
Germany’s Federal Administrative Court has dismissed the latest objections to the port of Hamburg’s plans to deepen the lower Elbe. But The Loadstar understands that nevertheless, it still has a few more hurdles to clear. Local news reported that the Leipzig-based court had thrown out claims from several neighbouring cities and commercial fishermen opposed to… Read More
Working together, naval architects in Europe and the US have developed a proposal to convert excess platform supply vessels into dredgers. In the wake of the well-documented downturn in the oil and gas markets in recent years, an increasing number of platform supply vessels (PSVs) are currently under-utilised or languishing in layup, most notably in… Read More
India’s Adani Ports has taken delivery of the largest dredger yet built under IRClass. Shanti Sagar, an 8000 m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger built by IHC Holland, is the first in the series of two dredgers ordered by Adani Ports. The second is at an advanced stage of construction and is expected to be… Read More
Germany’s top administrative court has ruled that the deepening of the Elbe River in Hamburg should go ahead so massive containerships can reach Hamburg Port, despite environmental concerns. According to DW, the case went to court after plans to deepen the Elbe River to a depth of 15.6 metres were announced and environmentalists registered a… Read More
Perth Harbour is facing an uncertain future after a dramatic drop in visiting vessels. Council chiefs are poised to order a review of the once thriving port after a new study revealed the number of ships calling at the city had plummeted from 300 a decade ago to just 20. It also emerged a much-needed… Read More
Texas crude oil is being shipped worldwide at ever higher rates as foreign markets get used to the taste of light sweet crude. Port Corpus Christi, a major refining center on the U.S. Gulf Coast, is now becoming a major hub for U.S. crude oil exports. More than 70 percent of the crude oil moved… Read More
Operadora Portuaria Centroamericana, which operates the Honduran Port of Puerto Cortés, is to invest $624m over the next 14 years to enable it to handle neo-panamax vessels transiting the Panama Canal. The work will involve boosting quay capacity, which it is hoped will enable Honduras to become a logistics hub for the Americas. Simultaneously, the… Read More
A cooperative multi-entity task force created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting Dec. 5 in Houghton County, kicking off long-term efforts to save the important lake trout and whitefish spawning areas on Buffalo Reef from being covered with shifting stamp sands. The meeting has been scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday,… Read More
Chinese investors are looking to build a US$1bn port on Peru’s central coast. That is according to Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. “There’s a Chinese group that’s ready to finance this US$1.4bn project. It’s huge,” he told BN Americas. He also said that the Kuczynski government is backing new port concessions in Salaverry and Chimbote… Read More
A rejig of port management is taking place in Mexico. According to the Ministry of Transport (SCT), overall responsibility for ports is being transferred from the Naval Secretariat (Semar), which has been in charge for the past three years, to civilian control. This has prompted the replacement of many senior directors. Jorge Luis Cruz Ballado… Read More