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President Trump says he is frustrated with the slow pace of major construction projects like highways, ports and pipelines. Last summer, he pledged to use the power of the presidency to jump start building when it became bogged down in administrative delays. “No longer will we allow the infrastructure of our magnificent country to crumble… Read More
The hostility from President Trump’s environmental adversaries is hardly without precedent in the Great Lakes region: For nearly a decade, when Stephen Harper served as Canada’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, there were reports of muzzled scientists, lawlessness among polluters, and regulators unable to do meaningful enforcement because their agencies had become so budget-strapped…. Read More
Once bursting with blue-collar workers, the largest dry dock on the West Coast has sat empty along San Francisco’s waterfront for half a year. San Francisco’s Pier 70 shipyard dates back to the late 1800s and is where workers welded and ultimately repaired ships as massive as 54,000 tons. It shuttered in May, prompting the… Read More
China will provide Panama with whatever help it needs after the Central American country ditched long-standing ties with self-ruled Taiwan in June, a senior Chinese diplomat said yesterday after talks between the two countries’ presidents. Panama’s decision to end ties with Taiwan was a major victory for Beijing, as it lures away the dwindling number… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and infrastructure services announced that it has taken delivery of the new build ATB hopper dredge Ellis Island and tug Douglas B. Mackie after successful completion of United States Coast… Read More
Port of Houston Chairman Janiece Longoria said on Thursday that they were back in business about a week after Hurricane Harvey, but the challenge now is dredging all the silt that collected in the Houston Ship Channel. She said that dredging is crucial to maritime safety. Speaking before the Greater Houston Partnership in its annual… Read More
Comprising the general and bulk cargo segments, seaborne cargo handling in Hamburg during the first nine months at 104.3 million tons was at a stable level. At 6.8 million TEU (20-ft standard containers), throughput of containerized general cargoes continued to grow; while at 34.1 million tons, bulk cargo throughput remained just below the previous year’s… Read More
Last month, 748,762 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) moved through the Port of Los Angeles. While it was the third best October registered by the Port, it is an 8.1 percent decrease compared to last year’s record-breaking October. The last quarter of 2016 the Port handled additional cargo after the Hanjin bankruptcy. Ten months through 2017,… Read More
A group of leading ports from around the globe wrapped up a two day meeting in Los Angeles this week as part of a maritime collaboration called chainPORT, a global initiative established in 2015 to digitally connect ports worldwide and boost efficiency within the global maritime supply chain.The chainPORT initiative is led by the Ports… Read More
Coming soon to a B.C. port near you: more container cargo in bigger ships. That’s the upbeat script the province’s ports and container terminals are following for their infrastructure expansion plans. But have they got their investment priorities right? The biggest roll of the dice on that front is also the biggest source of controversy… Read More
Japan’s government has made a $1.04bn (Rp 14.2tr) loan agreement to fund the Patimban deep seaport venture in Subang in Indonesia. Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Indonesia Office senior representative Tomoyuki Kawabata confirmed the total investment in the project as $1.3bn (Rp 17.2 tr) and that that land acquisition and taxes were not included in… Read More
Port of New Orleans President and CEO Brandy D. Christian highlighted gains in cargo and cruise volumes in 2017 and positioned the Port as an international gateway, offering superior logistics solutions with seamless operations between river, rail and road and serving as an economic catalyst for the region and state. The announcement was made at… Read More
The Port of Hamburg has labeled the inability of mega-ships to call and leave fully loaded because of draught restrictions on the Elbe River a “blockade” by environmentalists holding up the deepening work that was hurting the port and damaging the economy. Joint Port of Hamburg Marketing CEO Ingo Egloff said the objections from environmental… Read More
Assam is preparing to position itself as a gateway to South-east Asia and Asean nations, the State’s Industry Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary has said. With South-east Asia becoming a major trade (export) destination for Indian companies, Assam has the potential to emerge as India’s corridor to the region. “Companies can leverage Assam as a hub… Read More
Teledyne Oceanscience announces the release of a new LiDAR sensor option for their Z-Boat 1800RP unmanned surface vehicle (USV) product line. LiDAR is a surveying method that measures distance to a target by illuminating that target with a pulsed laser light, and measuring the reflected pulses with a sensor. Differences in laser return times and… Read More