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The most powerful port, shipping, and transportation industry groups in Brazil are banding together to pressure the government to reform the country’s port law that was passed in 2013. The groups contend the law concentrates too much power in the central government, slowing decision-making and sowing uncertainty for domestic and international investors who are needed… Read More
Hanjin Shipping confirmed on Thursday that the Seoul Central District Court has given the go-ahead to sell the troubled company’s Asia-US container shipping business. South Korea’s largest liner operator went into receivership on 1 September and was scheduled to submit a rehabilitation plan on 23 December. However, before that could be done, the court began… Read More
The biggest sand-dredging boat in Asia and one of the world’s most advanced, the Junyang 1, was completed and handed over to Guangzhou Harbor on October 10, the China News Agency reports. Junyang 1 was constructed by the Guangzhou Dredging Company Limited (GDC), a subsidiary of the China Communications Construction Company, in the Netherlands, at… Read More
An agreement has been signed between Brazilian and European parties on the development and construction of a new port in Brazil’s southeastern state of Espirito Santo. The main mover behind the project is the joint venture Porto Central JV which comprises the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and TPK (Terminal Presidente Kennedy) Logistica, which… Read More
After a delay of about six years, the country’s biggest port strategically located at the eastern side of the Karachi port with a capacity of handling mother ships is set to begin test operations in the first week of next month. As per details made available to Dawn, terminal operator South Asia Pakistan Terminals (SAPT)… Read More
A long-simmering fight between Minnesota and North Dakota has broken wide open now that Gov. Mark Dayton has drawn a line down the middle of the Red River by refusing to allow a massive flood diversion project to go forward on his side of the border. Residents and local leaders in Fargo are outraged at… Read More
The scope of dredging works at water areas of Russia will total some 30 mln cbm in 2016 and is expected to remain at this level next year. Only half of dredging operations is performed by the fleet of FSUE Rosmorport with the rest of works done by contractors. The series is completed Krasnoye Sormovo… Read More
The American Association of Port Authorities is urging Congress to use this year’s water resources bill to protect ports from an unexpected drop in annual dredging funds generated by the tax that goes to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund. For years, ports have pushed to ensure that all HMT collections are used for dredging and… Read More
When Christa Savva returned to the Sandy Shoes Beach Resort a day after Hurricane Matthew brushed by Melbourne Beach, she looked at the beach in front of the pink-flamingo-colored hotel and noticed that half the sand dunes had disappeared. Savva guesses three-quarters of the missing dunes washed into the ocean, and the remaining quarter scattered… Read More
House and Senate staffs are trying to work out a compromise on key differences affecting the nation’s harbors in their respective water resources bills, differences port operators say will keep them competitive in the years to come. Ports stand to gain big under a bill passed by the Senate 95-3 that would increase federal coverage… Read More
There is no doubt that wearables are in vogue and could become the norm for ports in the future. Industry professionals see it as the equivalent of a GPS and magnetic compass – with the technology being the GPS and the human brain the compass. However, ports have still to be persuaded that the technology… Read More
Four Hanjin Shipping-controlled ships have been released from arrest in China and the Panama Canal after the company settled claims from terminal operators and bunker suppliers. A company spokesman told IHS Fairplay that some of the KRW110 billion (USD98.8 million) injected by parent Hanjin Group, whose major shareholder is Korean Air Lines, was used to… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is well-known for maintenance dredging within the Great Lakes to support navigability and commerce. Tributaries connected to the lakes contribute to increased sediment loadings causing channels and harbors to fill in. Therefore, dredging is typically done in federal channels and harbors to maintain authorized depths. Primary sources for sediment… Read More
Hanjin Shipping on Thursday gave US importers awaiting the discharge of their stranded goods a better idea of when some ships will call but wasn’t able to give a timeline for two ships under arrest near the Panama Canal and another off the coast of Savannah. It’s not clear when Hanjin Baltimore and Hanjin Bremerhaven… Read More
Lawyers for the Ohio EPA, the Port of Cleveland and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Tuesday were attempting to hammer out an agreement to dredge the Cuyahoga River shipping channel, and to overcome a demand by the Corps that could sink the deal. The Army Corps proposed Monday to end the year-long stalemate… Read More