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Two proposed changes to the placing of cadmium-laden dredged sediments at dredged material containment areas (DCMAs), as part of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, are available for review in a Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA). This SEA supplements the July 2012 Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. Corps officials recommend placing… Read More
2016 has been a difficult year in many ways, with celebrities dying, Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. But even with the beating that Somerset took during Storm Angus in November, there is one crumb of comfort which we can take: the Levels and Moors did not flood. In fact, since the disastrous floods… Read More
Ethan Wells has lived along the Ohio River for almost all of his 32 years. One day last August near his home in Sistersville, an hour south of Wheeling, West Virginia, he noticed blue-green algae growing along the riverbank. And each time he looked, there was more of it. “I grew up on a farm… Read More
Iran seeks to reform pipelines systems in Neka oil terminal in time with final negotiations between Iran and Russia over sales of 100 thousand barrels of crude oil per day. Earlier in December, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh and Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak reached agreement on finalizing an oil export deal worth 100 thousand… Read More
The Corps of Engineers will get more money for coastal beach replenishment and flood control projects, and more leeway for creatively using sediment from navigation dredging projects. Little-noticed provisions in the final version of the Water Resource Development Act recently passed by Congress authorize new efforts for the Corps to use sand and other sediments… Read More
Jawaharlal Nehru (JN) Port, India’s busiest container port, has launched a global tender to deepen and widen Mumbai harbour channel and JN Port channel. Work to deepen the existing draught to accommodate 15 m-draught vessels, carrying more than 9,000 teu, will stretch over 35.5 km and is projected by the port to cost about USD260… Read More
The federally supervised cleanup of PCB contamination on the Hudson River has failed to protect public health or the environment, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said in a new report on the six-year dredging project. The report released Tuesday and a statement from DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos are the latest developments in an intensifying… Read More
A Whanganui businessman has unveiled plans for a proposed ferry service and related harbour redevelopment. Neville Johnson from Midwest Ferries Ltd has worked on a Whanganui-Motueka ferry service proposal for several years and yesterday said he wanted to work with the Whanganui District Council and the wider community to develop a harbour that suited as… Read More
The Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), today released and is seeking comment on a proposed rule to update and clarify its policies governing the use of USACE reservoir projects for domestic, municipal and industrial water supply pursuant to Section 6 of the Flood Control Act of 1944, 33 U.S.C. §… Read More
Minister of Public Works and Transportation Boudjeemaa Talai on Sunday visited the Maritime Studies Laboratory of Algiers to inquire into the progress of the detailed studies on the project of El Hamdania commercial port (Tipasa), said a communiqué of the ministry. “The Minister inquired into the progress of the detailed pre-project studies entrusted with Algerian-Korean… Read More
The German waterways and shipping authority – the WSV – has ordered its biggest dredger to date to complement outsourced dredging operations and make services more flexible. The 132m long and 23.4m wide newbuilding, initially unnamed in an announcement by the Bonn-based WSV, has been ordered by the government agency’s engineering and technical division –… Read More
The Civil Society Network Against Corruption, which is a coalition of over 150 anti-corruption organisations, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the Nigerian Ports Authority over an alleged by-passing of procurement laws on contracts worth N717 billion. In a petition signed by the coalition’s chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, CSNAC said it is… Read More
Cormagdalena – the Colombian government agency overseeing a dredging project for the Magdalena River that would dramatically improve freight movements – announced December 16 that project developer Navelena SAS has at last achieved financial close on the COP$2.5 trillion (US$877 million) “public-private association” (APP in Spanish initials) project. The project had suffered numerous financial-closing delays… Read More
The Cabinet has cleared a bill proposing a significant overhaul of the functioning of 12 major ports in the country, giving a nod to the Major Port Trust Authorities bill, 2016 on Wednesday. The bill once passed by Parliament will give port boards more autonomy and flexibility. Under the proposed bill, all future public-private partnership… Read More
The Jacksonville Port Authority started 2016 facing down competition from other ports, with Brunswick in Georgia and Port Canaveral both pledging investment in their auto shipping businesses, a core business for Jaxport. Jaxport — and all Florida ports — were snubbed in Februar y from federal funding for any construction projects, which drew the ire… Read More