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Container lines have been accused of raising costs across the global supply chain — from cargo terminals to hinterland transport — as they pursue economies of scale through the deployment of increasing numbers of mega-ships. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
A Baltimore roundtable Tuesday of Obama administration members and port, labor and shipping leaders discussed the importance of ports in the U.S. and ways to grow them long-term. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, Secretary of Commerce Penny Prtizker and Secretary of Labor Tom Perez met with the port and retail industry, says the American Association… Read More
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has this week pledged to consider dredging the Teviot and Slitrig. SEPA chief executive Terry A’Hearn visited Hawick yesterday (Thursday), and was joined at a high-level meeting in the town hall chambers by local MSP John Lamont, and councillors Stuart Marshall, Watson McAteer and George Turnbull. The summit was arranged… Read More
The Port of Gothenburg in Sweden has announced its plan to build a new freight terminal at the outer port area on the Hisingen side of the river, at the estuary of the Göta Älv. The expansion project, listed as the largest expansion project at the port since the 1970s, will involve the construction of… Read More
On Friday, environmental officials announced that they had made final a plan to remove more than a century’s worth of industrial toxins from the lower eight miles of the Passaic, the most dangerously tainted ribbon of the river. The project, officials said, would be among the most ambitious and expensive cleanup efforts in the 35-year… Read More
CMA CGM plans to upgrade a trans-Pacific service to the West Coast by deploying six ships with capacities of 18,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units, starting late May, a bet that container terminals can handle the largest mega-ships to call the U.S. and that volume will steadily grow.
he Port of Gothenburg is set to expand with the construction of a new terminal at the outer port area. It is the largest expansion project at the port since the 1970s. The terminal will be built using dredging spoils and is expected to be completed at some point after 2020. The Land and Environment… Read More
State-owned firms such as Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI) and Dredging Corporation of India Ltd (DCI) and other government departments and agencies will have to buy only Indian-built ships from 2025 onwards when a ten-year financial assistance scheme approved by the cabinet ends. This stipulation forms part of the draft guidelines written by the… Read More
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is again asking the Army Corps of Engineers to advance a northern deep-water Alaska port to serve vessels in Arctic waters. The Alaska Republican at a budget hearing Wednesday questioned the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, Jo-Ellen Darcy, on why the corps is not seeking funding a proposed… Read More
As many areas in the north of England and Scotland struggle to return to normal life after months of flooding, residents live in fear of yet another heavy bout of rainfall which environment experts say could be avoided by simply dredging rivers. But because of the EU’s European Water Framework Directive, rivers and streams are… Read More
A PLAN to improve access to the Port of Cairns through a 4.4 million cubic-metre capital dredging project has triggered a spat between the federal and state governments. Recently, Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt wrote to his Queensland Government counterpart Steven Miles regarding the project, which is being assessed at the Environmental Impact Statement phase…. Read More
An early flood on the Mississippi River this year brought with it a large amount of sediment that is slowly filling in vital navigation channels on the lower river. The extra dirt has cut into the recommended draft for all vessels going through the main navigation channel of Southwest Pass and has had the U.S…. Read More
An environmental group is taking legal action to demand that Environment and Climate Change Canada investigate possible health impacts if a Canadian potash exporting company dredged sediment from Prince Rupert harbour. Canpotex, which is looking to construct an export terminal on Ridley Island, has been issued a renewed permit that allows the company to lift… Read More
There may be scope for future African leaders to borrow the European precedent of connecting navigable rivers to develop an inland, canal-based transportation network. Inland waterway systems have also been successful outside Europe. In the U.S., inland waterway freight transportation can move bulk and container shipments of over 100 TEUs at lower cost per unit… Read More
For the first time since 2007, the number of vessels in the port of Rotterdam increased. In 2015, 29,122 sea-going vessels arrived, compared to 29,014 in 2014. In 2007, 37,097 sea-going vessels called at the port. The number of significant accidents decreased the past year from twelve to seven. Three of these incidents involved leisure… Read More