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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
The Mississippi River should be dredged to let three southeast Louisiana ports accept the enormous cargo ships built to take advantage of the Panama Canal’s expansion, the Army Corps of Engineers says. Many other U.S. ports either already have completed similar projects or are trying to get them approved. Parts of the shipping channel from… Read More
Bangladesh has inked 2 memorandums of understanding (MoU) worth $600 million with two Chinese companies for the construction of 2 of the 19 components of the Payra Deep-sea Port at Bangladesh Secretariat at a signing ceremony on Dec 8. China Harbour Engineering Company Limited(CHEC) is to construct the of core port infrastructure and China State… Read More
Vietnam has started dredging work on a reef in the South China Sea, fresh satellite images appear to show, a move that could provoke Beijing which claims most of the disputed waterway. An image of Ladd Reef in the Spratly Islands, where Vietnam has a lighthouse, shows several vessels in a carved out embankment. Sediment… Read More
The commercial operations at South Asia Pakistan Terminals (SAPT), Pakistan’s first deep sea container terminal project, could not start even after the lapse of 6 years mainly due to lack of homework, including dredging, to be done by the concerned departments. The inauguration of the terminal has been postponed again by the authorities which was… Read More
The government will allocate a further Sh10 billion for construction of the first three berths at Lamu port in the next financial year, Transport Principal Secretary Irungu Nyakera has said. When the project started in the 2016/1017 financial year, it was also allocated Sh10 billion. Mr Nyakera said the works were progressing well slightly ahead… Read More
The local government here has invited the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UPMSI) to find ways to solve river pollution and siltation and flooding problems of the city. Mayor Belen Fernandez inspected the rivers affected by the siltation and pollution caused by rampant fishpen operations accompanied by UPMSI researchers led by Prof. Caroline… Read More
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed Tuesday that his state will file suit to overturn federal approval of plan to allow sludge dredged from harbors in Connecticut to be disposed of in the open waters of Long Island Sound. The New York lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which isn’t expected to be filed… Read More