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The city has begun active negotiations with Transport Canada towards a possible city takeover of the federally owned Owen Sound harbour. City manager Wayne Ritchie said Owen Sound has been given up to six months to negotiate and make its decision. “The stage we were at before was the very preliminary stage where our consultants… Read More
Germany’s Federal Administrative Court has dismissed the latest objections to the port of Hamburg’s plans to deepen the lower Elbe. But The Loadstar understands that nevertheless, it still has a few more hurdles to clear. Local news reported that the Leipzig-based court had thrown out claims from several neighbouring cities and commercial fishermen opposed to… Read More
Working together, naval architects in Europe and the US have developed a proposal to convert excess platform supply vessels into dredgers. In the wake of the well-documented downturn in the oil and gas markets in recent years, an increasing number of platform supply vessels (PSVs) are currently under-utilised or languishing in layup, most notably in… Read More
India’s Adani Ports has taken delivery of the largest dredger yet built under IRClass. Shanti Sagar, an 8000 m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger built by IHC Holland, is the first in the series of two dredgers ordered by Adani Ports. The second is at an advanced stage of construction and is expected to be… Read More
Germany’s top administrative court has ruled that the deepening of the Elbe River in Hamburg should go ahead so massive containerships can reach Hamburg Port, despite environmental concerns. According to DW, the case went to court after plans to deepen the Elbe River to a depth of 15.6 metres were announced and environmentalists registered a… Read More
Perth Harbour is facing an uncertain future after a dramatic drop in visiting vessels. Council chiefs are poised to order a review of the once thriving port after a new study revealed the number of ships calling at the city had plummeted from 300 a decade ago to just 20. It also emerged a much-needed… Read More
Texas crude oil is being shipped worldwide at ever higher rates as foreign markets get used to the taste of light sweet crude. Port Corpus Christi, a major refining center on the U.S. Gulf Coast, is now becoming a major hub for U.S. crude oil exports. More than 70 percent of the crude oil moved… Read More
Operadora Portuaria Centroamericana, which operates the Honduran Port of Puerto Cortés, is to invest $624m over the next 14 years to enable it to handle neo-panamax vessels transiting the Panama Canal. The work will involve boosting quay capacity, which it is hoped will enable Honduras to become a logistics hub for the Americas. Simultaneously, the… Read More
A cooperative multi-entity task force created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting Dec. 5 in Houghton County, kicking off long-term efforts to save the important lake trout and whitefish spawning areas on Buffalo Reef from being covered with shifting stamp sands. The meeting has been scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday,… Read More
Chinese investors are looking to build a US$1bn port on Peru’s central coast. That is according to Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. “There’s a Chinese group that’s ready to finance this US$1.4bn project. It’s huge,” he told BN Americas. He also said that the Kuczynski government is backing new port concessions in Salaverry and Chimbote… Read More
A rejig of port management is taking place in Mexico. According to the Ministry of Transport (SCT), overall responsibility for ports is being transferred from the Naval Secretariat (Semar), which has been in charge for the past three years, to civilian control. This has prompted the replacement of many senior directors. Jorge Luis Cruz Ballado… Read More
Governor Kate Brown, the Port of Portland, and Business Oregon today announced that Swire Shipping will begin container shipping service at the Port of Portland’s Terminal 6. The announcement follows Governor Brown’s recent trade mission trip to Hong Kong, where the Governor and Port representatives met with Swire corporate executives. This new shipping option is… Read More
Nigerian citizens in Hungary have petitioned the Hungarian government kicking against the proposed 54 million Euro loan deal the country intends to give the Nigerian Ministry of Water Resources, describing the loan deal as a fraud and misplaced priority. A letter addressed to the Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, signed by the President of the… Read More
Dredging at the port of Rio de Janeiro will enable it to handle ships of 10,000 to 12,000 TEU, positioning it to build on recently won services. The port now has a draft of 13.3 meters (43.6 feet) at low tide that will go to 13.7 meters when dredging work now under way is complete… Read More
A major integrated project to develop a port and an adjoining industrial zone in Tanzania by the Sultanate’s State General Reserve Fund (SGRF), along with its partner China Merchants Ports (CMPorts), has received approval from the Government of Tanzania. The proposal included dredging of the navigational channel, construction of a port and logistics park, and… Read More