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New York State on Thursday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a plan to dump large quantities of dredged sediment in eastern Long Island Sound. The lawsuit, filed by the state attorney general’s office in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, seeks to block the EPA from adding a third dumping site near Fishers Island… Read More
City council members have raised questions regarding the project, which some members say has side-lined them. Two members of Jacksonville City Council in Florida have expressed their wish for talks about deepening the state’s longest river to move into public sessions to assess the project, a venture that may require $150m from the city. John… Read More
Construction at the Port of Rauma container terminal is progressing well. First part (60 meters) of the new container quay was taken in use on Monday August 14th, 2017. After the addition, the total length of the container quay is now 215 meters.The container quay will be extended to 520 meters within the rest of… Read More
MORE than one million cubic metres of sand will be pumped from barges to create the base for Sunshine Coast Airport’s new runway. Sunshine Coast Airport expansion project director Ross Ullman said Sunshine Coast Council had gained two of the five State Government approvals it needed to undertake the works. Mr Ullman said an underground… Read More
South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA), which owns and operates public seaport facilities in Charleston, Georgetown and Greer, handled 1.3 million TEUs during the first seven months of 2017, up 13 percent year-over-year, SCPA said Monday. In July alone, SCPA moved 182,411 TEUs, the strongest July on record and an increase of 2.9 percent from 12… Read More
One of the first breakwater construction projects ever to use Trimble Marine Construction (TMC) Software and Teledyne BlueView sonar to collect motion-compensated 3D point clouds and create a 3D model from the moving barge platform in real time Overview Customer Profile: Manson Construction Co. (Manson) specializes in heavy civil marine construction and offers services including… Read More
JUST A few miles from the Maryland-Pennsylvania border lies the Conowingo Dam, an 88-year-old power station stopping the massive Susquehanna River, which is the source of much of the fresh water flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. Since bay cleanup began, states in the Chesapeake watershed have relied on the dam to limit the flow of… Read More
The draft at Santos, the largest container port in Brazil, is now 13 meters following the resumption of emergency dredging to put an end to draft restrictions that cost shippers and carriers millions of dollars. The 13-meter draft is an improvement on the previous depth of 12.6 meters, but still shy of the original draft… Read More
Port Panama City along Florida’s panhandle is gearing up for a new forest products terminal. The port has already begun construction on the terminal’s first 250,000-square-foot warehouse and related rail yards, with the project costing $20 million, Port Panama City Executive Director Wayne Stubbs told American Shipper. The total investment for the first phase of… Read More
Satellite pictures do not lie. Washington-based think tank Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Amti-CSIS) on Thursday disproved the claims of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano that China is no longer doing reclamation work on any of the disputed islands in the… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation has recommended to Congress that the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor receive one of 10 FASTLANE small project grants for 2017. The $9.85 million discretionary grant is part of a $19.7 million expansion of the port’s infrastructure that will increase cargo handling capacity and multimodal capabilities for the Lake Michigan port…. Read More
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