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Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated an expansion of the country’s main seaport in Jakarta on Tuesday, a facility upgrade that will cut the time container ships must spend waiting to load or unload. “We cannot delay the development of modern ports any longer. This supports trade flows and investment in this country,” President Widodo said… Read More
Berrien County will no longer be responsible for planning the dredging of harbors after this year, county Commissioner Bill Chickering told St. Joseph city officials Monday. He said there is “a little sense of urgency” as county commissioners expect to vote next month on whether to dissolve the Harbor Authority as of Jan. 1 and… Read More
Coastal shipping in India is facing several problems, including higher expense per tonne in comparison to road and rail. The Modi government’s ambitious Sagarmala project needs to address these issues on a priority basis. Experts believe that the problems beleaguering the sector are due to high taxes and lack of finances. Managing Director of Link… Read More
When is it time to send your ship to the graveyard? It is always a financial decision whether to lay-up a vessel or sell it to a ship-breaking yard. In recent years it has become a more frequently made decision, but how do you sell a ship for scrapping or laying-up? (Extended coverage from Marine… Read More
“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small,” protests the ageing silent film star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. The same could be said about global trade by Maersk Line and other shipping companies whose gargantuan container vessels make their way between Asia, the US and Europe part empty. The bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping,… Read More
A Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd (117930.KS) vessel is finishing unloading in California and scheduled to leave port on Monday, shipping industry officials said, as shareholders and executives associated with the South Korean firm pledged funds to help resolve the turmoil created by its collapse. The Hanjin Greece docked in Long Beach on Saturday after a… Read More
Plans are underway along the East African coast to expand existing maritime terminals and to develop new terminals, in particular along the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts. Infrastructure developments including dredging operations and rail links, could make a significant difference to the economic outcomes. While development of a new terminal located to the northeast of Mombasa… Read More
The situation in Scarborough Shoal “has not changed” and China is not building an artificial island in the disputed area, China said in a statement on September 7, 2016. “There are no dredging or building activities there,” said the Chinese Embassy in Manila, dismissing speculations that barges spotted by the Philippines in the West Philippine… Read More
Ask Matthew Traver, the mayor of this village north of Albany, his opinion of General Electric and its two closed factories that spilled PCBs into the Hudson River for decades, and his words could not be clearer. “G.E.,” he said, “has done a lot of damage to this community.” But ask Mr. Traver if he… Read More
Dredging company Boskalis as conducted successful tests on a sustainable wood-based drop-in biofuel, a world first for the maritime fleet. Along with GoodFuels Marine, a provider of sustainable marine biofuels to the global commercial shipping fleet, Boskalis tested the fuel UPM BioVerno supplied by Finnish company UPM Biofuels. Boskalis vessel Edax, a 1,696 dwt cutter… Read More
If reports about the presence of Chinese dredging ships near Scarborough Shoal are true, Beijing may be planning to start island-building on the disputed reef to turn it into another military outpost. The U.S. Pacific Command should order a military air and surface reconnaissance operation to check on the ships and to learn their intentions…. Read More
On 21 August last year, the Rijkswaterstaat (part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment) awarded the ‘Zeetoegang IJmond’ project bcontract for the design, building, financing and maintenance (DBFM) of a new sea lock at Ijmuiden. The winner – Consortium OpenIJ – consists of BAM-PGGM, VolkerWessels and DIF. The new lock will be… Read More
Even as the Modi government has ambitions to developing ports, logistics and coastal shipping sector through the Sagarmala project, in reality, coastal shipping continues to be hit by many issues, including higher expense per tonne when compared with the roads and rail sector. Experts say the coastal shipping has still not taken off because of… Read More
The first report by Infrastructure Victoria into the best site for Victoria’s second container port is scheduled to go to the state government in May 2017. The two options being investigated are Hastings in Western Port and Bay West in Port Phillip, but Infrastructure Victoria has cautioned that “evidence we gather may not be conclusive… Read More
One major Chinese company that has invested billions of dollars in Jamaica in the past decade, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), is publicly denying any knowledge of an ‘established practice’ to pay bribery to Jamaican government officials. CHEC affirmed to The Sunday Gleaner that it was “not aware of any such practice”. Questioned further if… Read More