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Governor Kate Brown, the Port of Portland, and Business Oregon today announced that Swire Shipping will begin container shipping service at the Port of Portland’s Terminal 6. The announcement follows Governor Brown’s recent trade mission trip to Hong Kong, where the Governor and Port representatives met with Swire corporate executives. This new shipping option is… Read More
Nigerian citizens in Hungary have petitioned the Hungarian government kicking against the proposed 54 million Euro loan deal the country intends to give the Nigerian Ministry of Water Resources, describing the loan deal as a fraud and misplaced priority. A letter addressed to the Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, signed by the President of the… Read More
Dredging at the port of Rio de Janeiro will enable it to handle ships of 10,000 to 12,000 TEU, positioning it to build on recently won services. The port now has a draft of 13.3 meters (43.6 feet) at low tide that will go to 13.7 meters when dredging work now under way is complete… Read More
A major integrated project to develop a port and an adjoining industrial zone in Tanzania by the Sultanate’s State General Reserve Fund (SGRF), along with its partner China Merchants Ports (CMPorts), has received approval from the Government of Tanzania. The proposal included dredging of the navigational channel, construction of a port and logistics park, and… Read More
The mudflow in the West Flood Channel (KBB) in Tanah Abang, has overflown and was in need to be dredged. Dredging is urgently required to restore the canal depth as a flood mitigation control, the Govt. officials then employed heavy equipment for this purpose in the West Flood Canal area. It is to prevent further… Read More
The largest dredger under IRClass named “SHANTI SAGAR – 17” of 8000 cu.m capacity has been successfully delivered to the Owners – Adani ports and SEZ Ltd by the yard – IHC Holland B.V at Netherlands, Europe. The vessel is a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) constructed under the special survey of Indian Register of… Read More
Minister of Transportation Hisham Arafat and Canal Authority chairman Mohab Mamesh will travel Sunday to Germany to present investment opportunities in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone). Head of the Egyptian-Korean Business Council Raouf Ghabbour said Saturday that a delegation of 11 Korean companies will visit Egypt next month to study the execution of investment… Read More
State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos and other DEC officials have suggested that more testing for PCBs in the lower Hudson River, including spots near Columbia and Greene counties, should be conducted if the federal government has not kept its part of the bargain to clean up the waterway. The DEC is calling… Read More
The current surge in wildfires will double the rate at which reservoirs throughout the West fill up with mud, according to a sweeping study of erosion by the United States Geological Survey. One-third of the 471 large watersheds in the western U.S. will see a doubling in erosion in the next 33 years. An estimated… Read More
Port of Tauranga’s timing was perfect. Two weeks after completing its $350 million, 10-year development programme, the first large post-panamax container ship sailed past Mauao and into the beautiful harbour. When Maersk began its weekly Triple Star service in August last year — sending 9500 TEU (20-foot equivalent units) container ships to Tauranga — it… Read More
Container ships just keep getting bigger and bigger. Today’s top dog, the OOCL Hong Kong, can carry a mind-boggling 21,413 boxes – far more than the largest ship ever to call on the Port of Hampton Roads. So it’s only natural to ask: Are we nearing the limit of what’s possible? McKinsey & Co., a… Read More
Eromosele Abiodun posits that to fully harness the potential in the shipping industry, it is vital to strengthen the portfolio of the channel management companies because of their strategic importance as backbones of Nigeria’s maritime assets Geographically Nigeria is endowed with 852 km of the Atlantic coastline with 10,000 km of inland waterways about 30… Read More
WITH problems on manpower, the Cebu City Council has allocated P1.42 million for the hiring of more people to do drainage maintenance works in the city. According to Councilor Jerry Guardo, who proposed the resolution for the amount, this would be used to hire 95 job order (JO) personnel for a period of 44 days… Read More
Dredging rivers remains an important way of reducing flood risk to farmland – but is not always appropriate or effective, says the Environment Agency (EA). Agency chief executive James Bevan issued the warning in a speech to the Association of Drainage Authorities (ADA) annual conference on Thursday (17 November). “I am in favour of dredging… Read More
The Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA), in association with the Planning Institute of Jamaica, has launched the Jamaica Logistics Hub Master Plan. Prior to the launch last Thursday, during a public session at the University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters, Mona, the master plan was presented to government ministers Audley Shaw and Dr… Read More