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Though it may not be honorable enough to agree with insinuations that successive federal governments deliberately sidelined sea ports in the eastern zone of the country for political and socio-economic reasons, the pathetic state of almost all the ports in NPA’s eastern operation also makes it impossible for anyone to believe otherwise. How else can… Read More
The failure of authorities to complete dredging in River Jhelum and other water bodies in time has made things worse as the quick discharge of flood waters would have controlled the water level to large extent in Jhelum. The officials admitted that the situation would have been different in case work was done by or… Read More
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, today announced details of a €2.8m package to assist 13 Coastal Local Authorities undertake and complete 51 development and repair projects on harbours and slipways owned by them (see table for details). The package provides funding for maintenance and repair works in addition to… Read More
Union Minister of Roads, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari today said the Centre will dredge the Brahmaputra river from Sadia in Upper Assam to increase navigational channels up to Chittagong port in Bangladesh. “Once this project materialises, it will change the entire economic corridor of Assam,” Gadkari said during a review meeting with Assam Chief… Read More
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters led a bipartisan delegation letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney today requesting that funding for dredging of recreational and commercial harbors in Michigan be included in the fiscal year 2018 budget. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not included operation and maintenance funding… Read More
Global oil giant, ExxonMobil, is one of the international investors eyeing investment opportunities in the proposed Akwa Ibom State government owned Liberty Oil and Gas Free Zone in Ikot Abasi, an official said. The special adviser to the Akwa Ibom State Governor on technical matters, Ufot Ebong, said ExxonMobil, which has its operational base in… Read More
The innovative new GeoSwath Compact Survey Vessel (CSV) is being shown for the first time at Ocean Business. The first-ever Kongsberg developed survey vessel integrates all the equipment needed to survey shallow coastal and inland waterways quickly. It is based on a powerful and maneuvrable two-person catamaran equipped with the latest GeoSwath 4 shallow water… Read More
Norwegian technology supplier Water Linked has launched a new Underwater GPS system that leverages traditional GPS along with Water Linked’s unique underwater acoustic positioning technology. Designed to enable underwater positioning in a wide new range of marine technology applications, this system is priced at $4,800, half the cost of existing underwater positioning systems. The Underwater… Read More
Port of Corpus Christi officials today determined that a planned container facility at the La Quinta Trade Gateway is no longer a viable option due to its proximity to the North Shore residential community. Container terminal operations typically involve heavy usage of trucks, high profile cranes, and on-dock rail operations. Port officials concluded that noise… Read More
A permit has been sought under Section 5 of the Dumping at Sea Acts 1996 to 2009 to dispose of silt and gravel from upcoming dredging works. The proposed dumpsite is to the east of Dingle Harbour around 2km south of Doonshean. The €4m dredging project will allow vessels up to 120m in length dock… Read More
As the three-judge independent Environmental Appeals Board panel continues its review of the EPA’s Rest of River order to General Electric to remove PCBs from the Housatonic, the company has fired back with a hard-hitting response striking at the front lines of its legal confrontation with the federal government. In its 127-page filing on the… Read More
The Port of Gothenburg is planning to make use of contaminated clay from the seabed to build a new freight terminal at the outer port area at Hisingen, covering 220,000 square metres. The method is currently being tested as part of large-scale field trials using the dredging spoils from routine maintenance at the Göta Älv… Read More
People in Ulipur upazila of the district are suffering as the Buri Teesta river is drying up due to earth filling at a place where a sluice gate collapsed in 1988. The Buri Teesta originates from the Teesta river at Arjun village and joins the Brahmaputra river at Kachkol village under Chilmari upazila. Flow of… Read More
The Cochin Port Trust (CPT) registered commodity traffic of 25.01 Million Metric Tonnes Per Annum (MMTPA) in the 2016-17 fiscal, the highest in its history. It is estimated the CPT’s net loss would ease to Rs 35-40 crore this year from Rs 40.52 crore in 2015-16. Briefing about the performance of the port, deputy chairman… Read More
From his condominium along Gulf Shore Boulevard North, Ewing Sutherland has had a beachfront seat to watch dump trucks deliver tons of sand to widen the shoreline. Their engines roar, their tailgates bang — and the noise never stops from sunup to sundown, he said. “I would prefer not to have it, but it needs… Read More