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Brazil’s passionate Ports Minister Helder Barbalho announced that the recently delayed second tranche of port privatizations valued at more than 2.8 billion reais ($763.3 million) would go forward on June 5 at the Sao Paulo bourse. In his opening speech at the Intermodal South America conference he said Brazil would be able to overcome the… Read More
After 13 years of accumulated silt building up in the Petaluma River, stranding boats and discouraging shippers and yachters from plying these waters, there is finally some potential for movement toward dredging the river. The action is the culmination of a year of meetings between several regional governments all in the same marooned boat, including… Read More
A federal trial has been scheduled for September to resolve a lawsuit filed seven years ago against General Electric Co. by the town of Halfmoon and the Saratoga County Water Authority over whether they should be reimbursed for the costs of finding alternate water supplies as a result of the Hudson River PCB dredging project…. Read More
BP has been ordered to pay $5.5 billion to settle civil damages claims made by the U.S. as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The amount will be paid over the course of 16 years. Despite protests from both Congress and a broad coalition of environmental groups, the final settlement will allow BP… Read More
General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt defended his company when a reporter asked about the polluted Housatonic River it left behind after leaving Pittsfield. GE, which is set to complete the moving of its headquarters to Boston from Connecticut in 2018 and focus on the “??industrial internet,”? once had facilities in Pittsfield. The company’s departure economically… Read More
The future of two area Missouri River dams could receive high priority under a federal program, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said Monday. Paul Boyd, a Corps hydraulic engineer with the Omaha District, addressed the annual meeting of the Missouri Sedimentation Action Coalition (MSAC) in Yankton. Boyd spoke with the Press & Dakotan… Read More
The South Carolina Ports Authority exported the two millionth BMW manufactured in South Carolina, a milestone celebration of the port’s longstanding partnership with the nation’s top vehicle exporter. The two millionth vehicle, a BMW X5 M50d, was loaded for export onto the ELEKTRA vessel operated Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics for delivery to a customer in Germany…. Read More
The Isle of Wight Council and the Environment Agency have launched a three month public consultation on a draft coastal strategy for the West Wight shoreline. The coastline covered in the strategy includes the towns of Yarmouth, Cowes, East Cowes, Freshwater, Totland, Colwell, as well as Newport Harbour, and surrounding areas. The public consultation opened… Read More
It’s been more than 15 years since the Environmental Protection Agency dubbed an 11-mile stretch of the Willamette River as a Superfund site, and it’s just getting around to proposing a cleanup plan. Next week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to deliver its long-awaited recommendations for how to clean up the Portland Harbor Superfund… Read More
The St. Johns Riverkeeper group filed a petition Friday against the state Department of Environmental Protection over the proposed dredging of the St. Johns River. The Jacksonville Port Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are planning to dredge the river to be able to accommodate larger ships and compete with other ports. In… Read More
The sponsor of the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal for coal shipments to Asia is suspending work on an environmental review while it awaits a federal ruling on whether the exporting would interfere with Lummi Nation fishing rights. SSA Marine, which retains a 51 percent ownership of the project, said Friday, April 1, it was halting… Read More
Port operator APM Terminals to develop a new transshipment terminal in Tangier with an annual capacity of five million TEUs. APM Terminals MedPort Tangier will become operational in 2019, serving multiple trades and will be the first automated terminal in Africa. The 30-year concession of APM Terminals MedPort Tangier will complement the current operations of… Read More
A part of the lawsuit filed against the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion project has been dismissed by a federal judge, leaving two of five original counts unresolved. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has also been dismissed from the case, leaving the Diversion Authority as the primary defendant. In the two counts that Judge John R…. Read More
?Over 100 slum dwellers in Otodo Gbame community besieged the Lagos State Government House, Wednesday, protesting dredging and sand-filling activities near their homes. Otodo Gbame is a predominantly fishing village in Lekki. The community people demanded an immediate stop to the dredging activities at the Otodo Gbame lagoon by Destiny Dredgers’ International (DDI) Ltd, purportedly… Read More
U.S. Senator Rob Portman claims the Army Corps of Engineers is raising the stakes in its legal battle with the Port of Cleveland over how to dispose of dredging material. Portman claims the Corps if threatening to cut funding from other important projects involving Lake Erie if it is unable to dispose of dredging material… Read More