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The Incorporated Trustees of Dredgers Association of Nigeria has instituted a contempt proceeding against the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Water Front Infrastructure Development over an alleged disobedience of court orders barring the state from regulating their activities. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had in a judgment in 2014 in a… Read More
A review to assess the success of a six-year cleanup of the upper Hudson River has been started by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. General Electric last year finished dredging a 40-mile northern stretch of the river for PCBs under a Superfund project that cost an estimated $1.5 billion. The scheduled year-long review announced Tuesday… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set a public hearing for next month on a contentious $35 million passenger cruise terminal proposed for Charleston’s waterfront. The Corps has issued a public notice setting an April 12 hearing. The agency is reviewing an application by the South Carolina Ports Authority for a federal permit to… Read More
The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has released the results of its recent environmental review during the PORTOPIA conference in Lisbon. As in 2013, air quality remains the number one priority of European ports. The focus on air quality is in line with the priority given to the issue at E.U. political level with the… Read More
At one of the busiest shipping terminals in the U.S., more than two dozen giant red robots wheeled cargo containers along the docks on a recent morning, handing the boxes off to another set of androids gliding along long rows of stacked containers before smoothly setting the boxes down in precise spots. The tightly designed… Read More
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has approved a request by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Cleveland’s harbor and the Cuyahoga River to make them safe for shipping traffic. The EPA announced recently that the Army Corps can dredge up to 225,000 cubic yards of material from the Cuyahoga River and dump it… Read More
A plan to expand a port near the continental US’s only barrier reef is “lunacy” and risks devastating the ailing coral ecosystem, Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, warned on Wednesday. The US army corps of engineers plans to deepen and widen shipping channels to allow more ships to access Port Everglades,… Read More
State Enterprise “Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority” (USPA) and “MV Cargo” LLC has signed an agreement on the implementation of two partnership projects in relation of the construction of a terminal in the port “Yuzhnyi”. During the solemn ceremony, the document was signed by CEO of USPA Andrey Amelin and Director of “MV Cargo” Alexander Primak… Read More
SUPREME Court Justice Rhonda Bain found Michael Major, the former Director of Physical Planning in the Ministry of Works, in contempt yesterday for not abiding by several orders concerning Peter Nygard’s applications for Crown land, building and dredging activities. The ruling came as the Christie administration continues to face questions about its relationship with the… Read More
Master plan for dredging vessels and equipment required till 2030 has been developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in February 2016 (IAA PortNews has the access to the document copy). The plan provides for construction of 36 dredging ships at Lotus shipyard (Astrakhan Region) to the order of Rechvodput, 18 units at Krasnoye… Read More
Yet another call alerted the DNR that oil was still leaking near the dredge on the east side of the Storm Lake marina Sunday. A Buena Vista County deputy sheriff confirmed substantial sheen spreading outside the booms and along the east marina shoreline. DNR and multiple Storm Lake officials responded Sunday afternoon, placing a second… Read More
The St. Johns Riverkeepers‘ “Save the St. Johns Tour” is sailing along, paddling to Lake Washington today traveling to the River Lakes Conservation area. On its first day, Tuesday, starting by Vero Beach, the riverkeeper tour explored the headwaters of the river, Blue Cypress Lake, which happens to be the largest concentration of osprey in… Read More
A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday ruled that Mondivest Ltd had a stand to maintain an action against Eko Atlantic project dredgers, for damages caused to the Kuramo Waters. The judge, Justice Jude Dagat, held this view while ruling on a preliminary objection to a suit filed by Mondivest, claiming N2bn as general damages… Read More
THE National Trust’s attempts to “rewild” part of the Ullswater Valley have met with anger and criticism from local farmers. The trust wants to take one of its fields out of tenant farmers’ hands and leave it to nature as a year-round flood plain for Goldrill Beck. Neighbouring fields could also be used as an… Read More
Somali pirate kingpin Mohamed Abdi Hassan has been sentenced by a Belgian court to 20 years in prison for the hijacking of the Pompei, a 1,850 dwt Belgiansubsea rock installation vessel(designed to protect pipelines etc.), captured by pirates in April 2009 and the first ship from that country to be taken off the Somali coast…. Read More