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Lack of dredging has put Odisha’s lifeline Mahanadi river in danger of running dry. The situation is such that if dredging is not carried out soon, the river may run dry in the early days of summer season. Sources said red tapism has taken a toll on the river. With tender yet to be finalized,… Read More
M.V.Cargo has started building berth 25 for the grain terminal of Cargill at the Yuzhny maritime merchandise port (Odesa region). The corporate relations service of TIS LLC, the co-owner of which founded M.V.Cargo for the implementation of the Cargill project, the length of the new berth will be 385 meters and depth – 16 meters…. Read More
Members of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association are asking Congress to allocate $50 million for additional ICW dredging from the operating and maintenance budget of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The association argues that shoaling has created hazardous conditions in some areas of the ICW, with depths reported to be less than five feet,… Read More
‘Vopak’s strategy in the ARA region is to invest in productivity and service improvements at our current terminals instead of adding storage capacity for which we don’t see a need,’ says the terminal’s MD. The terminal operator and the Port of Amsterdam are to jointly invest in infrastructure improvements at Amsterdam Westpoort. A jetty will… Read More
THE latest “discussion paper” released by Infrastructure Victoria estimates building a container port at Hastings will cost more than double that of developing a new port at Bay West, inside Port Phillip. Using scenarios based on ships capable of carrying either 14,000 TEU (based on 20 foot long containers) or 18,500 TEU, the paper puts… Read More
Jacksonville Port Authority CEO Brian Taylor has resigned, giving no reason for the sudden departure, as the Northeast Florida port gauges whether it should encourage its top Asian container terminal to move in order to reduce the cost of deepening to better handle mega-ships. Taylor’s resignation is the second unexpected departure of a Jacksonville chief… Read More
Calling sea level rise an “existential threat,” Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine on Thursday called on federal and state authorities to do more to help coastal cities like Miami Beach deal with rising tides that he says are threatening cities like his. Levine spoke Thursday at a conference of five government agencies that make up… Read More
Coastal storms like Hurricane Sandy aren’t new, but what is new are the stakes. Today we have more development and people living on our coast. We also now face an unpredictable climate change and sea level rise, which could further compound coastal flooding. Bryce Wisemiller, project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New… Read More
Coming off a record 2016, the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore’s public marine terminals jumped right into 2017 with a record month in January. The Port handled 923,030 tons of general cargo (cars, containers, farm and construction equipment, forest products, and breakbulk). Most of that tonnage was containers which also had a record for… Read More
Tanjong Po in Bako is expected to be turned into another sea port for Sarawak. Describing Tanjong Po as interesting, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr James Masing said even without dredging it has a natural depth of 10 metres. And because it is near Kuching, it has a lot of potential not… Read More
News is piling up about the continuing saga of chassis shortages. While the major US ports struggle to locate chassis, here in the Heartland the crisis fluctuates by region. For example, Iowa exporters need both chassis and containers to get their products to the international markets they serve. But the question remains how Iowa shippers… Read More
Controversial dredging of the Elbe River between Hamburg and the North Sea is now likely to be delayed by a further two years and could impact on handling, following a court ruling that current plans must be amended. The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig declared that long-planned Elbe deepening along the 130 kms stretch between… Read More
Why there has been so little scrapping in an industry beset by overcapacity Too many new ships, too few old ones scarpped. Since the financial crisis, after which trade growth slowed, the Baltic Dry Index-a measure of bulk freight rates has fallen by 93%. Prices for transporting containers have plunged by the same amount on… Read More
A judge in the Bahamas has fined a Canadian clothing manufacturer $50,000 for violating a court order to stop dredging near his beachfront home. The environmental group Save the Bays, which brought the case against Peter Nygard, calls the ruling “an extraordinary triumph for environmental justice in the Bahamas.” In a statement, a lawyer for… Read More
Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) reports that it has completed the project to redesign its Vorhafen Harbour Basin entrance. The improvements will provide more manoeuvring space for big ships, faster berth assignment and improved safety of navigation: Work was completed “well within the schedule, both in terms of time and money,” adds the HPA, with the… Read More