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Overcapacity May Hit Caribbean Transhipment Ports Following Panama Canal Expansion

United States

The Panama Canal expansion has raised fears that the container terminal industry in Latin America and the Caribbean could be heading for profound overcapacity, while terminals have been urged to rethink their position in supply chains. At last week’s TOC America Container Supply Chain event in Cancun, Giovanni Benedetti, commercial director of the Sociedad Portuaria… Read More

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JB Marine Delivers New 1,300-hp Towboat to Gateway Dredging

United States

B Marine Inc., St. Louis, has delivered the steel-hulled 55’x24’x7’6? towboat David J. Bangert to Gateway Dredging, Monroe, Mo. The boat was designed by Seabrook, Texas-based The Shearer Group Inc. (TSGI) to ABS rules for building and classing steel vessels on rivers and intracoastal waterways. The new towboat is also designed to TSGI’s best interpretation… Read More

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Push on for Comite Diversion, but Corps of Engineers Continues to Find Project Doesn’t Offer Best Bang for Buck

United States

Republican Congressman Garret Graves recently told an LSU auditorium full of researchers examining the August floods that the long-stalled Comite River Diversion Canal must be the priority as the region looks at several complementary flood-control measures to protect the Baton Rouge area. His pitch for the partially built diversion has become a common refrain among… Read More

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Brazil Shipping Industry Joins Forces to Amend Port Law

Brazil

The most powerful port, shipping, and transportation industry groups in Brazil are banding together to pressure the government to reform the country’s port law that was passed in 2013. The groups contend the law concentrates too much power in the central government, slowing decision-making and sowing uncertainty for domestic and international investors who are needed… Read More

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Seoul Court Calls for Sale of Hanjin Shipping’s Asia-US Network

United States

Hanjin Shipping confirmed on Thursday that the Seoul Central District Court has given the go-ahead to sell the troubled company’s Asia-US container shipping business. South Korea’s largest liner operator went into receivership on 1 September and was scheduled to submit a rehabilitation plan on 23 December. However, before that could be done, the court began… Read More

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Asia’s Biggest Sand-dredging Boat Unveiled in Guangzhou

United States

The biggest sand-dredging boat in Asia and one of the world’s most advanced, the Junyang 1, was completed and handed over to Guangzhou Harbor on October 10, the China News Agency reports. Junyang 1 was constructed by the Guangzhou Dredging Company Limited (GDC), a subsidiary of the China Communications Construction Company, in the Netherlands, at… Read More

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Porto Central Takes Step Forward with Van Oord Dredging Deal

Brazil

An agreement has been signed between Brazilian and European parties on the development and construction of a new port in Brazil’s southeastern state of Espirito Santo. The main mover behind the project is the joint venture Porto Central JV which comprises the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and TPK (Terminal Presidente Kennedy) Logistica, which… Read More

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Country’s Biggest Port Set To Begin Trial Run

Pakistan

After a delay of about six years, the country’s biggest port strategically located at the eastern side of the Karachi port with a capacity of handling mother ships is set to begin test operations in the first week of next month. As per details made available to Dawn, terminal operator South Asia Pakistan Terminals (SAPT)… Read More

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Minnesota, North Dakota at a Standoff Over $2 Billion Red River Project

United States

A long-simmering fight between Minnesota and North Dakota has broken wide open now that Gov. Mark Dayton has drawn a line down the middle of the Red River by refusing to allow a massive flood diversion project to go forward on his side of the border. Residents and local leaders in Fargo are outraged at… Read More

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How Deep will We Go?

Russian Federation

The scope of dredging works at water areas of Russia will total some 30 mln cbm in 2016 and is expected to remain at this level next year. Only half of dredging operations is performed by the fleet of FSUE Rosmorport with the rest of works done by contractors. The series is completed Krasnoye Sormovo… Read More

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US Ports Want ‘Backstop’ on Funds from Harbor Tax

United States

The American Association of Port Authorities is urging Congress to use this year’s water resources bill to protect ports from an unexpected drop in annual dredging funds generated by the tax that goes to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund. For years, ports have pushed to ensure that all HMT collections are used for dredging and… Read More

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Loss of Sand, Over Time, Also Threatens Tourism, Florida’s No. 1 Industry

United States

When Christa Savva returned to the Sandy Shoes Beach Resort a day after Hurricane Matthew brushed by Melbourne Beach, she looked at the beach in front of the pink-flamingo-colored hotel and noticed that half the sand dunes had disappeared. Savva guesses three-quarters of the missing dunes washed into the ocean, and the remaining quarter scattered… Read More

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Bringing Port Issues To Dock In Construction Aid Bill

United States

House and Senate staffs are trying to work out a compromise on key differences affecting the nation’s harbors in their respective water resources bills, differences port operators say will keep them competitive in the years to come. Ports stand to gain big under a bill passed by the Senate 95-3 that would increase federal coverage… Read More

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Wearables can Target Safety and Communications

United States

There is no doubt that wearables are in vogue and could become the norm for ports in the future. Industry professionals see it as the equivalent of a GPS and magnetic compass – with the technology being the GPS and the human brain the compass. However, ports have still to be persuaded that the technology… Read More

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Four Arrested Hanjin Ships Freed After Creditors Paid

United States

Four Hanjin Shipping-controlled ships have been released from arrest in China and the Panama Canal after the company settled claims from terminal operators and bunker suppliers. A company spokesman told IHS Fairplay that some of the KRW110 billion (USD98.8 million) injected by parent Hanjin Group, whose major shareholder is Korean Air Lines, was used to… Read More

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