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With a helping hand from Harrisburg the Port of Philadelphia is upping its game. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recently announced that the state is investing $300 million to boost the port’s facilities, doubling its container capacity by 2020. About $200 million of the total will enhance the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal, the port’s biggest facility,… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied Sarasota County’s request for a more stringent environmental study of the controversial plan to dredge Big Pass. In a seven-page letter to the Sarasota County Commission on Tuesday, the Army Corps defended the type of environmental assessment it has conducted on the plan to dredge up to… Read More
A risk-based framework for sustainable, leading practice maintenance dredging of Queensland ports to ensure protection of the Great Barrier Reef was announced December 1. The Maintenance Dredging Strategy for Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Ports was jointly released by Ports Minister Mark Bailey and Environment Minister Dr Steven Miles, meeting an important election commitment… Read More
THE Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan is expected to travel to Tobago this week to discuss the problems being experienced by Tobago businesses as a result of postponed sailing of the inter-island cargo boat, Super Fast Galicia. Last week Chief Secretary Orville London said the meeting is “tentatively” scheduled for Wednesday at the… Read More
The government’s planning to pass urgent legislation this week to fast track crucial work in Kaikoura, Prime Minister John Key announced on Monday. Passing the urgent legislation will “give the government the authority to do the things you’d expect us to be able to do relatively quickly”, Mr Key says. That would include dredging in… Read More
Four persons are missing and two others were saved after a barge capsized near Pulau Bruit at the Rajang river mouth in stormy weather on Saturday night. The missing crew members are skipper Pawi Nyawan, 50, crane operator identified as only Kamal in his 30s, Angga Wahyudi, 24, and Kamal’s wife Mira. The two survivors… Read More
A symbol of America’s ailing infrastructure, Lock No. 52 on the Ohio River is responsible for a shipping bottleneck that hobbles commerce far and wide. Luther Helland stood on a platform in the middle of the river and surveyed his dam. It was in bad shape. Several of the panels that kept the water back were… Read More
The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has sent ports platform recommendations to president-elect Donald Trump’s transition team as he put forth a goal of investing up to USD 1 trillion to rebuild America’s infrastructure. The document outlines opportunities related to strategic investments in seaports and freight transportation assets. Some of the recommendations by APPA… Read More
At a recent environmental conference hosted by U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeremy Jackson, professor emeritus at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and a leading voice on human impacts on the environment, praised the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council’s work to plan for the effects of climate change, describing the agency’s efforts as “amazing.” Chris… Read More
Ellicott Dredge Technologies (EDT) is pleased to announce new technology that will minimize down time by greatly reducing pump and cutterhead clogs in debris rich environments. EDT, through its IMS and Mud Cat™ product lines, is now offering the self-cleaning debris guard called the “Pump Defender” (patent pending) on its entire horizontal cutterhead product line…. Read More
The long-running saga of the deepening of the river Elbe will be decided this year by the German Federal Court, with dredging now expected to commence in 2017. It has been calculated that the deepening of the Lower and Outer Elbe would enable an ultra-large container vessel (ULCV) to load around 1,800 teu more per… Read More
The state is pushing federal environmental officials to take nearly five times more PCB samples from the Hudson River than now planned in order to learn whether a $1 billion cleanup by General Electric Co. has worked. On Tuesday, Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos urged Judith Enck, regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,… Read More
President Rodrigo Duterte has given the go signal for the Cebu Port Authority (CPA) to proceed with its proposed P9.2-billion international port project in the northern town of Consolacion in Cebu province. This means that the CPA port project will be the project to be implemented in Barangay Tayud, Consolacion town in favor of the… Read More
The tourism ministry councillor, Joey Hew, has claimed that the cruise port’s new design reduces the dredging footprint, as government prepares to begin the tender process for the controversial project, which it maintains will be underway before the election. With the tourism ministry’s review of the revised design plans completed, Hew said they had gone… Read More
Mexico is surging ahead with the dramatic expansion of the Port of Veracruz in preparation for the trade increase expected from the country’s growing manufacturing base, especially car makers. The Mexican government, as part of its project to build a new facility next to the existing Gulf of Mexico port, will hear presentations next week… Read More