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As the three-judge independent Environmental Appeals Board panel continues its review of the EPA’s Rest of River order to General Electric to remove PCBs from the Housatonic, the company has fired back with a hard-hitting response striking at the front lines of its legal confrontation with the federal government. In its 127-page filing on the… Read More
The Port of Gothenburg is planning to make use of contaminated clay from the seabed to build a new freight terminal at the outer port area at Hisingen, covering 220,000 square metres. The method is currently being tested as part of large-scale field trials using the dredging spoils from routine maintenance at the Göta Älv… Read More
People in Ulipur upazila of the district are suffering as the Buri Teesta river is drying up due to earth filling at a place where a sluice gate collapsed in 1988. The Buri Teesta originates from the Teesta river at Arjun village and joins the Brahmaputra river at Kachkol village under Chilmari upazila. Flow of… Read More
The Cochin Port Trust (CPT) registered commodity traffic of 25.01 Million Metric Tonnes Per Annum (MMTPA) in the 2016-17 fiscal, the highest in its history. It is estimated the CPT’s net loss would ease to Rs 35-40 crore this year from Rs 40.52 crore in 2015-16. Briefing about the performance of the port, deputy chairman… Read More
From his condominium along Gulf Shore Boulevard North, Ewing Sutherland has had a beachfront seat to watch dump trucks deliver tons of sand to widen the shoreline. Their engines roar, their tailgates bang — and the noise never stops from sunup to sundown, he said. “I would prefer not to have it, but it needs… Read More
DGP Jacob Thomas committed grave irregularities in acquiring 50 acres of agriculture land in Tamil Nadu and while purchasing cutter suction dredger when he was heading the department of ports. This was revealed in two statements of facts former chief secretary SM Vijayanand had submitted a week before his retirement to the advocate-general. The statements,… Read More
The Digby Port has a new expansion plan, and it involves increasing the port size, the amount of docks, and local tourism. Digby Harbour Port Association chair Vance Hazelton and Digby harbour CEO and manager Edwin Chisholm are two of the plan’s key players, and say big things are in store for the port. Plans… Read More
A bill to provide a modest revolving loan fund for Texas ports had smooth sailing through the Senate Transportation Committee last week, setting it on a positive course as it heads to the full Senate for consideration. Senate Bill 28, sponsored by Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, puts action behind a port study completed by the… Read More
Universities in Wales and Ireland are joining forces to investigate how coastal defences and renewable energy schemes can be improved by more eco-friendly designs. More than €3m of EU funds is being invested in the Ecostructure project, which will develop and trial new methods to enhance the quality of coastal structures, including sea-walls and tidal… Read More
Chairman of Calabar Shippers’Association, Mr. Michael Ogodo, has supported efforts by the House of Representatives to investigate the dredging of the lower River Niger project which gulped billions of naira before being abandoned. Ogodo, who spoke with Vanguard on the issue, said it was the duty of the legislature to probe any function of the… Read More
Union shipping minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday alleged a stop-work order from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) last year on a dredging project at the Mormugao Port in Goa has resulted in a loss of Rs 250 crore to the exchequer. “The NGT judge had stopped the dredging work at the Mormugao port, leading to… Read More
The commanding general and chief of engineers of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers laid out a get-tough approach toward unraveling some of the agency’s burdensome red tape, securing funds for modernizing waterways and completing construction projects now underway. Speaking to the annual meeting of the Waterways Council Inc., Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite told… Read More
If all goes well, the ambitious outer harbour project of Cochin Port Trust (CPT) worth Rs 3,050 crore will be ready by June 2020, says A V Ramana, chairman (in-charge), CPT. According to him, the Indian Navy will give Rs 1,050 crore for the project. Ramana says that the central government may provide funding under… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. (ESG), Panama City, Fla., will launch the 356’x79’6×27’3 trailing suction hopper dredge Magdalen for Weeks Marine Inc., Cranford, N.J., on March 31 at Eastern’s Allanton facility in Panama City, Fla. The design and detailed engineering and the dredging equipment were provided by Dredge Technology Corp. (DTC), part of the IHC Merwede… Read More
The Port of Virginia is still in hot pursuit of having the deepest shipping channels on the East Coast. In recent months, however, it’s become clear that it’s going to take at least a little longer to get there. An initial study phase of a big harbor dredging project that could get the port’s channels… Read More