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The navigation potential of the Brahmaputra is immense but in desperate need of an overhaul. Cargo vessels are rarely seen and passengers are transported in rickety wooden boats. But developing the Brahmaputra into an international waterway, as envisaged in the National Waterways Act, could give the state of Assam and the rest of India’s Northeast… Read More
The Port of Tauranga is confirmed as New Zealand’s largest, fastest growing, and most productive port in the annual result presented to the New Zealand Stock Exchange on Friday. Container volumes increased by 13.8 per cent during the year to a record of nearly 1 million 20ft equivalent units. The largest cargo ships in the… Read More
Ellicott Dredge Technologies (EDT) is pleased to announce the successful launch of a Mud Cat MFD at Griffin & Howe’s Echo Lake in the Catskills region of New York. The dredge will clean and maintain several private lakes on various Griffin & Howe properties and eventually move on to local environmental projects in the Northeast…. Read More
Hurricane Harvey bombarded a stretch of the Gulf Coast in Texas on Saturday with home-ripping winds and epic rains. As emergency officials scrambled to assess the extent of the damage, hundreds of thousands of people were without power after utility poles were knocked to the ground as if they were twigs. The storm made landfall… Read More
The Port of Galveston has been closed to all marine traffic until further notice due to conditions from Harvey. The port is expected to remain closed until weather permits access and a port assessment has been completed. This is expected to happen no sooner than Tuesday, and possibly later. Both Carnival Freedom and Carnival Valor… Read More
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and U.S. Rep. Bob Brady announced on Friday that funding is complete for the Delaware River Deepening Project — a project 25 years in the making. The Army Corps of Engineers will provide $29.25 million in its Fiscal Year 2017 Work Plan for the project. Back in 1992, Congress first authorized… Read More
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has terminated the Joint Venture Agreement between the authority and a consortium led by Niger Global Engineering and Technical Company Limited (NGETCL) for not complying with the Public Procurement Act. The NPA stated this in a letter dated August 22, 2017, addressed to the Managing Director of NGETCL handling the… Read More
Growth of Halifax’s container business lately has been good news for the Nova Scotia economy, but despite the signs of prosperity there is also a level of concern about the port’s ability to service an ever-expanding business. While Halifax is an ice-free, deep-water port requiring little or no dredging, the key to the success of… Read More
Seaports along the Texas coast shut down Friday as they prepared for heavy rains and winds from Hurricane Harvey, disrupting shipments of energy products and consumer goods along one of the nation’s busiest shipping corridors. (Follow live coverage of the storm.) By midday, terminals at Port Houston, a major shipping hub for petroleum products and… Read More
The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) and the Port of Hamburg in northern Germany signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement on strategic cooperation last Tuesday. The agreement was signed by Panama’s minister of maritime affairs and administrator of the AMP Jorge Barakat and by Jens Meier, the Port of Hamburg Authority executive president. The document… Read More
Previously occupied by BAE Ship Repair and then Puglia Engineering, the shipyard at Pier 70 in San Francisco is undergoing investments and improvements including dredging and is now up for lease, according to the city and county. The Port of San Francisco is searching for a new tenant for the shipyard at the port’s Pier… Read More
Port Freeport is building a railyard with 21,000 feet of track to serve a 250-acre site that is adjacent to the Texas port and will be used for warehousing and distribution of synthetic resins, automobiles, and other cargo. The site, known as Parcel 14, is part of the port’s effort to expand its container and… Read More
Port of Tauranga posted a 7.9 per cent gain in annual profit, driven by record volumes of cargo, and announced the next instalment of its capital return saying it expects further growth in volumes and earnings this year. Profit rose to $83.4 million in the 12 months ended June 30 from $77.3m a year earlier,… Read More
Kolkata Port Trust chairman MT Krishna Babu informed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that KoPT will soon appoint a consultant to prepare TEFR (Techno Economic Feasibility Report) for Tajpur Port which will be ready in three to four months time. Once TEFR is ready, the Union Shipping Ministry will process for Cabinet approval for development of… Read More
A new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey vessel will soon be crisscrossing Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. It will work faster and more efficiently than ever before to accomplish its mission. Advertisement “She’s definitely using a lot more new technology, so going from an older no power windows to having a boat that’s got power everything,”… Read More