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Last December, the federal government repealed a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. produced crude oil, legislation that was enacted originally to protect the United States from foreign oil shortages. This landmark achievement positions the Coastal Bend to be a major hub for crude exports, further strengthening the case to deepen and widen the Corpus Christi… Read More
International data buoy manufacturer Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) is reporting extensive use of its 0.7m small field buoy on international dredging projects. The lightweight, easily re-positionable buoys can be repeatedly deployed to follow in the path of dredgers in order to monitor plume activity. They are often complimented by the OSIL 1.2m Tern buoys,… Read More
A top businessman is urging council bosses to beef-up investment in Perth Harbour or face losing it for good. Master butcher Simon Howie has fired off a bleak warning over the future of the local authority-owned port. Perth and Kinross Council is drawing up a business strategy for the harbour, after councillors voted to retain… Read More
The town of Palm Beach just landed an estimated $3 million worth of free beach sand, underscoring the positive possibilities of Port of Palm Beach dredging. That latest routine maintenance dredging project, eliminating natural sand buildup, and enhancing harbor navigation by keeping the Lake Worth Inlet at its authorized 33-foot depth, suggests that doing the… Read More
Dredge it or lose it, is the message from CentrePort as public consultation launches on plans to scoop a 7-kilometre channel for heavy sea traffic into Wellington Harbour. CentrePort is about to apply for resource consent to dredge 6 million cubic metres of sediment from the harbour floor – enough to fill a million concrete… Read More
The $5.2 billion expansion of the Panama Canal was expected to make US East Coast ports more competitive for cargo ships carrying televisions, tennis shoes, and other products from Asia. But those hopes are fading. As the wider, deeper canal nears its debut next month, ports that stand to gain aren’t ready to handle the… Read More
MORAY’S new £2.5 million dredger will be officially named during a ceremony at Buckie harbour. MV Selkie will be officially launched by the Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire, Clare Russell. Members of the public are invited along to witness the ceremony, which will begin just before noon with a welcome from the convener of Moray Council,… Read More
Talks may be going on behind the scenes regarding the Falmouth Gateway project and the capital dredging of the harbour but Cornwall Council now need to give some positive reassurance to the public at large that it is fully committed to this important scheme that will catapult Cornwall into the international limelight if and when… Read More
Four port operators have been pre-qualified to compete for the design, development, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of the Panama Canal’s eastern side Corozal container terminal. The companies were: APM Terminals B.V. (Netherlands); Terminal Link (France); PSA International Pte., Ltd (Singapore) and Terminal Investment Limited, S.A. (Netherlands). “The result of this process demonstrates the potential… Read More
The large-scale dredging of Miami’s port to accommodate the newest generation of freighters, an undertaking that prompted a long-running battle with environmentalists, caused widespread damage to a portion of the area’s fragile and already distressed coral reef, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report, based on a December… Read More
“Competitors beware.” So says the Port of Philadelphia in an advertising supplement in a recent issue of The Journal of Commerce. “Container volumes moving through the Port of Philadelphia are on the rise and projected to continue to climb,” the opening paragraph states. Truth is, the port handled a fraction of the cargo containers that… Read More
Singapore, the world’s second-busiest container port, has started building a harbour to double the island-city’s capacity to meet growing demand. The first of a four-phase development of the deep-water port in the western part of Singapore started last Friday, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said in a statement. The initial stage would have… Read More
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced a bill last week to accelerate a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study of a federally funded coastal protection project on the Texas Gulf Coast and to speed its construction, once the study is completed. Cornyn’s Corps’ Obligation to Assist in Safeguarding Texas (COAST) Act is designed to streamlines… Read More
Three times a week, ocean-crossing cargo ships with names like Maestro, Empire and Marvel steam up the St. Johns River, pass under the Dames Point bridge and dock at the TraPac terminal. There towering cargo cranes and a swarm of longshoremen unload steel boxes packed with consumer items bound for shelves in hundreds of stores…. Read More
The marine engine technology is on its way to move from pure mechanical to more and more electronic controlled engines. Engines equipped with common rail and dual fuel systems are available today and spark ignited gas engines are upcoming fast. With this change, a lot of improvements to engine performance and emissions are achieved. On the… Read More