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Author: EIVA CEO Jeppe Nielsen A previous post on the trend of large data sets touched upon how the use of not just one but multiple autonomous/unmanned systems have recently escalated among offshore and shallow water survey specialists. These include AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles), ASVs (autonomous surface vehicles) and USVs (unmanned surface vehicles). (Unmanned in… Read More
Minister of State for Forest and Environment, Mir Zahoor Ahmad today paid visit to World Famous Wetland Hokersar in the city of Srinagar and took stock of the measures and initiatives taken up by the Department of Wildlife Protection for restoration of the reserve site of Hokersar. MLA Batmaloo, Noor Mohammad Sheikh, Principal Chief Conservator… Read More
PRESSURE is mounting on Ports North as two of Australia’s biggest cruise operators call for nationwide port upgrades, including Cairns, so bigger ships can be accommodated. Both Carnival Australia (P & O Cruises and Princess Cruises) and RCL Cruises (Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises) say the only factor holding back growth is better port facilities… Read More
The outlook for the shipping industry under President Donald Trump, so far, has been a bit of a mixed bag. Some policies will be good for business, others might hamper it. Despite that, the CEO of the Port of New Orleans says the future looks good. Since taking office, Trump has pulled out of an… Read More
Belarus intends to implement a project on the development of port infrastructure in Nizhnie Zhary village, which borders Ukraine. Ukraine sees this as a perspective for the navigation development along the Dnieper and the potential for cargo transit. This requires dredging from Kiev to the border with Belarus, reports UkrAgroConsult. In the long term, such… Read More
The European Commission has widened the scope of its rules on public investment in ports and airports to encourage infrastructure development. The Commission has extended the 2014 General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) to cover ports and regional airports, culture and ‘outermost regions’. Under the EU state aid rules member states must normally notify the Commission… Read More
British Ports Association (BPA) chief executive, Richard Ballantyne, has warned against the distortion of competitive port markets with major public subsidies. Commenting on the European Commission’s decision to formally adopted the revised General Block Exemption Regulations (GBER) on state aids, which include, for the first time, guidelines for ports, Mr Ballantyne said the revised GBER… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineers expects to make changes by October in a key permit for Louisiana to start building the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion or other major environmental projects, a corps official said Wednesday (May 17). But it remains unclear whether the changes will accelerate the permitting process. Col. Michael Clancy, commander of the corps’… Read More
India and Bangladesh have initiated a process to improve navigability of inland water transit protocol route between the two countries so that the former can connect river Ganga with the northeastern states, an official said here on Tuesday. The two countries had agreed on the extension of Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT),… Read More
When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredges the Port of Wilmington’s shipping channel, it has to put the spoil somewhere. Traditionally, that has meant piling it onto three cells on Eagles Island’s southern end. By next summer, one of those will stand at 40 feet and the other two will be 42 feet. Still,… Read More
March 2017 saw Dumez Maroc (VINCI Construction International Network) hand over the new fishing port in Casablanca, a project forming part of a total redevelopment of the port area. Undertaken on behalf of Morocco’s ports authority, this complex operation – the biggest project ever implemented by the company – enabled Dumez Maroc to deploy all… Read More
Hover barges are generally found in Star Wars movies, science fiction novels by David Brin and virtual reality video games as they transport people and cargo down strange streets or unload hordes of furry aliens firing blasts from energy weapons in Wild West-style gunfights. In April 2017 though, after commissioning, passing hovering trials and a… Read More
In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has ordered the local commission that advises the Cape Cod National Seashore to suspend its meetings until further notice, the first such decree since the 40-mile preserve was founded in 1961. The order has raised fears that the administration could disband the commission or pack it with new… Read More
While World War 2 shipwrecks off the Indonesian coast are more and more becoming the targets of further destruction, it looks like at least one ship that allegedly took part in that destruction has apparently been brought to justice. According to DiverNet, the Malaysian coast guard recently caught a dredging ship registered in China that… Read More
Walvis Bay — The port expansion project currently under construction at the Namibia Ports Authority (Namport) in Walvis Bay, has been delayed by at least a year and the commissioning of the project is now set for 2019 and not next year, as initially planned. Port engineer ElzevirGelderbloem spoke to New Era about the port… Read More