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The Federal Government has been advised to dredge and revitalise the seaports in the Niger Delta in order to create jobs and end youth restiveness in the region. Mr Raymos Guanah, former Delta Commissioner for Lands and Survey, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on Sunday…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has released the Hudson-Raritan Estuary (HRE) Comprehensive Restoration Plan (CRP) – Volume 1, Version 1.0. The 255 page document dated June 2016 is the product of a multi-year effort by contributors from throughout the New York-New Jersey region, including leading… Read More
The EU Transport Coordinating Committee has approved funding for transport projects submitted by the Port of Gdansk, Poland’s leading port. According to the European Commission 16 Polish undertakings qualified as recommended projects to a total amount of nearly EUR 1.9 billion with three of these relating to the port. Two infrastructure projects from the approved… Read More
When it comes to shipper enthusiasm for sourcing and tapping domestic consumers, India has generally played second-fiddle to China. That’s changing. China’s aging workforce and its demands for higher pay and promised pensions, together with a general restructuring of the economy as it moves further into the middle-income bracket, is making room for competition in… Read More
At the Indian River Marina with DNREC Secretary David Small, legislators, and members of the Delaware Waterways Management and Financing Advisory Committee looking on, Governor Jack Markell signed legislation that establishes a dedicated and sustainable funding source for the state’s waterway management operations. Sponsored by Senator Gerald Hocker and Representatives Ronald Gray and Ruth Briggs… Read More
With the creation of the NWSA in August of 2015 the ports of Seattle and Tacoma integrated their operations forming a mega complex spanning 25 miles of Puget Sound. So what’s happened in the year that followed? New Leadership for the Alliance: Last week the alliance announced the addition of Zachary Thomas and Bob Meyers… Read More
In early June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) proposed to reissue its nationwide permits (“NWPs”) for certain wetland impacts. The proposed changes present some interesting issues and new opportunities for wetland permitting at the federal level. Nationwide permits issued by the Corps are general permits authorizing certain categories of activities impacting navigable waters… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a provider of environmental and infrastructure services, announced today that it was recently awarded four contracts with an approximate value of $93 million. Great Lakes received two awards for coastal protection work required along the… Read More
The Cameroonian government has just awarded, for the 2nd consecutive time, the contract for the dredging operations in the Douala port channel, in the economic capital of the country, to the company China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC), we learned officially. This new contract, which should carried out over a period of 24 months, has a… Read More
While opposition from Johnston County landowners stalled a proposed CSX container hub, Rocky Mount, North Carolina economic development officials quietly pieced together 700 acres for a partnership willing to take on the project. For that reason, the $272 million CSX rail hub once destined for Johnston County will instead go 50 miles north to Rocky… Read More
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd’s wholly owned subsidiary Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd has secured contracts from Jan De Nul Group to build three trailing suction hopper dredges (TSHDs) worth about S$100 million in total. The first two dredges are expected to be completed in second half 2018. They will be built in Keppel Nantong Shipyard… Read More
In the wake of the failed coup attempt in Turkey last Friday night, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his intention to push forward an artificial bypass canal to augment the shipping capacity of the congested Bosphorus. “These projects will be pushed ahead rapidly,” he said, referring to the canal and to other infrastructure initiatives. Turkey… Read More
Shippers using the container terminals overseen by the Itajai Port Authority are livid with the Brazilian government for failing to provide emergency dredging needed so container lines can fully load their ships. Although the government has provided funding for the emergency dredging, the 65 million reais ($19.82 million) set aside to restore the terminals’ depth… Read More
Larger container ships are not on the horizon for Port Otago soon, but shipping giant Maersk says it remains an option, dependent on volumes and customer demand. Port Otago’s current channel dredging operations now allow the existing vessels of Maersk, its largest customer, to load more containers than usual, but there are no plans yet… Read More
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has extended the country’s state of ‘economic emergency’ for another 60 days, a sign of declining conditions in the crisis-hit country. The state of emergency, in place since January, was necessary due to ‘extraordinary… social, economic, political, natural and ecological’ pressures, according to the presidential decree, signed by Maduro and released… Read More