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JUST A few miles from the Maryland-Pennsylvania border lies the Conowingo Dam, an 88-year-old power station stopping the massive Susquehanna River, which is the source of much of the fresh water flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. Since bay cleanup began, states in the Chesapeake watershed have relied on the dam to limit the flow of… Read More
The draft at Santos, the largest container port in Brazil, is now 13 meters following the resumption of emergency dredging to put an end to draft restrictions that cost shippers and carriers millions of dollars. The 13-meter draft is an improvement on the previous depth of 12.6 meters, but still shy of the original draft… Read More
Port Panama City along Florida’s panhandle is gearing up for a new forest products terminal. The port has already begun construction on the terminal’s first 250,000-square-foot warehouse and related rail yards, with the project costing $20 million, Port Panama City Executive Director Wayne Stubbs told American Shipper. The total investment for the first phase of… Read More
Satellite pictures do not lie. Washington-based think tank Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Amti-CSIS) on Thursday disproved the claims of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano that China is no longer doing reclamation work on any of the disputed islands in the… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation has recommended to Congress that the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor receive one of 10 FASTLANE small project grants for 2017. The $9.85 million discretionary grant is part of a $19.7 million expansion of the port’s infrastructure that will increase cargo handling capacity and multimodal capabilities for the Lake Michigan port…. Read More
Retailers, shippers and consumers breathed a sigh of relief as a first-of-its-kind contract extension was approved by dockworkers at all West Coast ports. The extension, ensuring labor peace at 29 ports in California, Oregon and Washington until 2022, was hailed by management and union officials who wanted to avoid labor strife that devastated the economy… Read More
A floating terminal will be built at the Chittagong port to help make the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal on the bank of the River Buriganga operational. Finance Minister AMA Muhith disclosed the information on Monday at a meeting with stakeholders at the Pangaon container terminal situated in Keraniganj. The minister said: “In the meeting, we… Read More
Thousands of creditors of bankrupt ocean carrier Hanjin Shipping can expect to get back less than two cents in the dollar, after it was revealed that claims approved so far total some KRW12tr ($10.5bn). The mind-boggling extent of the South Korean carrier’s indebtedness was revealed in a declaration and status report filed with the US… Read More
A company is threatening to fight former Kaduna State military governor Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd) for describing its job as a scam. Calabar Channel Management (CCM) Company Limited Managing Director Bart Van Eenoo is demanding ”an immediate apology and a retraction” from Umar, otherwise the former governor would ”leave our company with no other… Read More
Accusing the Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi of systematically trying to stall development projects, Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Tuesday said his government would go ahead with the port project as planned. Addressing a press conference here, Mr Narayanasamy said he was compelled to break his decision not to comment on Ms. Bedi after she came… Read More
Making way for literal boatloads of more tourists in Bali, the building of a cruise ship terminal at the island’s Benoa Port will begin in September, Indonesian officials announced last week. The decision to start construction next month comes after a meeting lead by Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan on August 1. The… Read More
A multimodal transportation infrastructure provides area manufacturers access to global markets, but there is a growing concern about the failure of the aging inland navigation system. The cost of addressing the backlog of critical maintenance projects along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System has increased 43 percent during the past two years — from about… Read More
The much-touted Puducherry port project undertaken in association with the Chennai Port Trust is in deep trouble as Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi has suggested dropping of the project and using the port land to develop tourism. A memorandum of understanding was signed between CPT and the Puducherry government in New Delhi on March 15 for… Read More
The Port of Antwerp, through its subsidiary Port of Antwerp International (PAI), is set to invest $10m in the Port of Açu in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The industrial deep-sea port was chosen by PAI, among other reasons, because of its strategic location near oil and gas fields and its proximity… Read More
Alliance for good governance (AGG), a forum of eco-friendly organisations in Puducherry, has urged the Puducherry government to delink the beach restoration project and port development project. In representations addressed to the lt governor Kiran Bedi, chief minister V Narayanasamy and chief secretary Manoj Parida, the forum charged that the port department has been diverting… Read More