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THE Innovation, a 147-metre ship docked in Rotterdam, looks like a cross between an oil rig and a robot from a “Transformers” film. Her crane has been loading on giant pipes throughout the night. Soon the ship will travel to sea, where an automated hammer will drive the pipes into the ocean floor to support… Read More
Since China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) was established in 2001 it has played a major role in supporting Chinese foreign trade. According to Sinosure statistics, its total credit and guarantee exposure totalled $2.8 trillion by the end of 2015, with claims paid amounting to $9.5 billion. However, this year there’s been a change… Read More
Five big global marine and inland terminal operators are queuing up for the contract to build Bangladesh’s maiden specialised maritime terminal in Chittagong. A local company is also an aspirant for the terminal project to be implemented on public-private partnership (PPP) model at Laldiar Char, situated adjacent to the Karnaphuli river estuary. The Chittagong Port… Read More
Life in a river basin has its rewards and challenges. A recent tour of the Red River by the Mississippi River Commission on a stop in Shreveport brought with hope for the future of navigation on the river. The motor vessel named the Mississippi docked last week at the Port of Caddo-Bossier and on board… Read More
The battle between Connecticut and New York over the dumping of dredged material in Long Island Sound has intensified with a federal lawsuit by New York challenging a dumping site near New London. Connecticut officials hit back Friday, saying the lawsuit challenging a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hamper shipping in the… Read More
An US operator is to operate a Georgian terminal which could help establish a new corridor between China and Europe. Seattle’s SSA Marine has been appointed a 20-year tenure as operator for the Anaklia Deep Water Black Sea Port’s container terminal by Anaklia Development Consortium (ADC). “Along with our American partners, we have been given… Read More
If private contractors were to bid on and work on projects to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, would it reduce the amount of pollution going into Pennsylvania’s waterways and cost less? Republican State Sen. Richard Alloway of Franklin County thinks so. Sen. Alloway has introduced legislation that would allow private contractors to work on the… Read More
RF President Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions following an August 3, 2017, meeting on implementation of large-scale investment projects in the Russian Far East, says official website of the Kremlin. Taking into account the President’s previous instructions, the Government should provide financing for the investment project to modernise the railway infrastructure of the… Read More
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority today released its 2017 mid-year statistics for trade through the Port of Vancouver. Overall cargo through the Port of Vancouver has increased four per cent to 69 million metric tonnes (MMT) over the same time last year with mid-year records in bulk grain and containers. Container quantities (measured by TEUs… Read More
Questions remain over the future of the port of Westport a year after cement firm Holcim pulled out of the region. With Holcim now gone, council-owned company Westport Harbour is facing a loss of over $1m in the coming year that would be expected to be carried by ratepayers. At a meeting on Wednesday, the… Read More
Teledyne CARIS™ announces the release of Bathy DataBASE™ (BDB) 4.4. This new version addresses the important areas of feature generalization and automation of product generation for chart compilation, as well as the increasing emphasis on bathymetric Lidar surveys. A collection of new techniques for generalizing bathymetry in chart compilation workflows can be found in BASE… Read More
New York State on Thursday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a plan to dump large quantities of dredged sediment in eastern Long Island Sound. The lawsuit, filed by the state attorney general’s office in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, seeks to block the EPA from adding a third dumping site near Fishers Island… Read More
City council members have raised questions regarding the project, which some members say has side-lined them. Two members of Jacksonville City Council in Florida have expressed their wish for talks about deepening the state’s longest river to move into public sessions to assess the project, a venture that may require $150m from the city. John… Read More
Construction at the Port of Rauma container terminal is progressing well. First part (60 meters) of the new container quay was taken in use on Monday August 14th, 2017. After the addition, the total length of the container quay is now 215 meters.The container quay will be extended to 520 meters within the rest of… Read More
MORE than one million cubic metres of sand will be pumped from barges to create the base for Sunshine Coast Airport’s new runway. Sunshine Coast Airport expansion project director Ross Ullman said Sunshine Coast Council had gained two of the five State Government approvals it needed to undertake the works. Mr Ullman said an underground… Read More