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At the Indian River Marina with DNREC Secretary David Small, legislators, and members of the Delaware Waterways Management and Financing Advisory Committee looking on, Governor Jack Markell signed legislation that establishes a dedicated and sustainable funding source for the state’s waterway management operations. Sponsored by Senator Gerald Hocker and Representatives Ronald Gray and Ruth Briggs… Read More
With the creation of the NWSA in August of 2015 the ports of Seattle and Tacoma integrated their operations forming a mega complex spanning 25 miles of Puget Sound. So what’s happened in the year that followed? New Leadership for the Alliance: Last week the alliance announced the addition of Zachary Thomas and Bob Meyers… Read More
In early June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) proposed to reissue its nationwide permits (“NWPs”) for certain wetland impacts. The proposed changes present some interesting issues and new opportunities for wetland permitting at the federal level. Nationwide permits issued by the Corps are general permits authorizing certain categories of activities impacting navigable waters… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a provider of environmental and infrastructure services, announced today that it was recently awarded four contracts with an approximate value of $93 million. Great Lakes received two awards for coastal protection work required along the… Read More
The Cameroonian government has just awarded, for the 2nd consecutive time, the contract for the dredging operations in the Douala port channel, in the economic capital of the country, to the company China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC), we learned officially. This new contract, which should carried out over a period of 24 months, has a… Read More
While opposition from Johnston County landowners stalled a proposed CSX container hub, Rocky Mount, North Carolina economic development officials quietly pieced together 700 acres for a partnership willing to take on the project. For that reason, the $272 million CSX rail hub once destined for Johnston County will instead go 50 miles north to Rocky… Read More
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd’s wholly owned subsidiary Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd has secured contracts from Jan De Nul Group to build three trailing suction hopper dredges (TSHDs) worth about S$100 million in total. The first two dredges are expected to be completed in second half 2018. They will be built in Keppel Nantong Shipyard… Read More
In the wake of the failed coup attempt in Turkey last Friday night, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his intention to push forward an artificial bypass canal to augment the shipping capacity of the congested Bosphorus. “These projects will be pushed ahead rapidly,” he said, referring to the canal and to other infrastructure initiatives. Turkey… Read More
Shippers using the container terminals overseen by the Itajai Port Authority are livid with the Brazilian government for failing to provide emergency dredging needed so container lines can fully load their ships. Although the government has provided funding for the emergency dredging, the 65 million reais ($19.82 million) set aside to restore the terminals’ depth… Read More
Larger container ships are not on the horizon for Port Otago soon, but shipping giant Maersk says it remains an option, dependent on volumes and customer demand. Port Otago’s current channel dredging operations now allow the existing vessels of Maersk, its largest customer, to load more containers than usual, but there are no plans yet… Read More
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has extended the country’s state of ‘economic emergency’ for another 60 days, a sign of declining conditions in the crisis-hit country. The state of emergency, in place since January, was necessary due to ‘extraordinary… social, economic, political, natural and ecological’ pressures, according to the presidential decree, signed by Maduro and released… Read More
Concern is growing over the possibility that GE could dump contaminated PCB material on three potential local sites from a potential massive dredging and excavation of the likely cancer-causing chemical along the Housatonic River from southeast Pittsfield into Lenox. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final decision on the Rest of River cleanup of PCB-laden… Read More
Delaware legislators are trying to keep Delaware waterways open by doubling boater registration fees. The State could raise more than $1 million for a new waterway management fund, according to Senate Bill 261, sponsored by state Sen. Gerald Hocker Sr. (R-20th) of Ocean View. The new, additional funds would go straight into a new waterway… Read More
The $5 billion project to expand the Panama Canal won’t deliver the expected economic boost to the U.S. until East Coast ports are expanded to handle the larger “Post-Panamax” container vessels, importers and retail groups are warning. According to major industry groups, just a handful of ports on the East Coast are ready to take… Read More
Dredging of the Brahmaputra river is being seriously considered by the Assam government as one of the answers to the problem of erosion that has gobbled up huge chunks of land on both banks of the river. “Dredging of the Brahmaputra will yield a plethora of benefits. It is possible that erosion would be reduced… Read More