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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
The Jaxport Board approved the purchase of conservation land needed for its deepening project. Jaxport is pushing for local, state and federal funding for the almost $700 million project. The Jaxport Board voted unanimously to approve the purchase of two parcels of land totaling 53 acres. The cost of the land was about $457,000. The… Read More
California faces an estimated $50 billion price tag for roads, dams and other infrastructure threatened by floods such as the one that severely damaged Oroville Dam last month, the state’s natural resources secretary said Wednesday. Nearly 200,000 people living near the country’s tallest dam were evacuated three weeks ago amid fears of a catastrophic flood… Read More
A San Francisco shipyard faced with potential closure due to a legal dispute between its former and current operators will remain open for the next 90 days while a longer term plan is worked out, city and port officials said Wednesday. The Port Commission on Tuesday approved an interim operating agreement with Puglia Engineering, Inc…. Read More
Port Otago has received resource consent from the Otago Regional Council to continue to use three marine sites adjacent to beaches to dump spoil from its routine channel dredging maintenance programme. Local surfers, concerned the nationally recognised Aramoana beach break could be affected, and Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, were successful in having extra monitoring… Read More