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Despite criticism from environmentalists, the $200 million Columbia River channel deepening project generated over $1 billion in capital investments since its completion five years ago, port officials and terminal operators say. In a new report released by Port of Portland and Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, consultants studied the economic impact of the project that deepened… Read More
The World Bank holds out US$280 million in soft loan to pave the way for enhanced inland water-transport services along Dhaka-Chittagong corridor which is also a protocol route for Indo-Bangladesh trade and transit, officials said. They said the country office of the Bank on June 13 confirmed the regional IDA (International Development Association) project on the… Read More
Broward County’s Port Everglades has received a new report that clears the way for it to begin the next phase of deepening and widening its channels. The signed Chief of Engineers report that officials received last week from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also allows the project to be included in federal legislation expected… Read More
Proposed cleanup plans for East Chicago waterways were presented Thursday at a meeting hosted by the East Chicago Waterway Management District and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at the main branch of the East Chicago Public Library. The goal is to address contamination in parts of the Grand Calumet River, the Indiana Harbor Canal and… Read More
Ports of Auckland says it will not appeal the High Court decision that revoked consent for its controversial Bledisloe Wharf extensions. Following a board meeting today, ports chief executive Tony Gibson said while the decision caused some problems with consenting and the ability to accommodate more and longer ships “we feel that appealing this case… Read More
Almost 10 months after the devastating September deluge, the J&K Government has taken no major initiative to mitigate the looming flood threat even as a flood alert was sounded in the region on Wednesday —- second time in the past four months. Nothing much has so far been done by the government for dredging and… Read More
In order to accommodate larger vessels the Scottish Port of Grangemouth has commissioned a feasibility study to assess the viability and cost of deepening the shipping channels within the port. Located on the Firth of Forth, Grangemouth is Scotland’s premier container port and the study for the deepening of the entrance channel is has been… Read More
A dredger caught in a legal wrangle and lying anchored three nautical miles off the Kollam port has started sinking. Four crew members on board were on Tuesday rescued by a team from the Neendakara Coastal police station on a directive from the Indian Coast Guard and handed over to Kollam Port authorities. The four… Read More
Mayor Alvin Brown created the task force last year to vet the divergent views about the project and help determine “how we make the financial investment necessary to achieve the harbor deepening.” But since his election defeat last month, the group hasn’t met – canceling two of its scheduled meetings. Although the task force draws… Read More
The telephones of opponents of the controversial Washington Parish Reservoir Project rang incessantly Tuesday after word spread that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the current reservoir application for permit. The proposed reservoir was to be constructed in the Oak Grove Community in the center of the parish. Oak Grove residents said if a… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Rock Island District is revising and updating its Master Plan that dates to the early 1970s and wants to hear from the public. The Army Corps hosted an open house Tuesday in Dubuque. Two were held in Bettendorf and Burlington, Iowa, last week, and another is scheduled for Thursday… Read More
State Rep. Paul Tine told a roomful of Dare County movers and shakers concerned about long-term solutions to Oregon Inlet Monday that they’d better rally the troops if they want to be heard in Raleigh. “If y’all have a position, you really need to engage your people,” he said. “If it’s going to go to… Read More
A dredging company could be find up to $250,000 fine over the death of a worker on a barge in Auckland in 2013. Dredging New Zealand has admitted the charge of breaching Health and Safety laws by failing to take steps to ensure of safety of employees. Barge operator Peter Bateman died after he was… Read More
Hundreds of thousands of people throughout our region get their drinking water from Bayou Lafourche. The water is purified before it makes its way through miles of pipes and into the faucet at your home. But the better the source of that water is, the better off we all are. So it’s a welcome development… Read More
Singapore opened the newest addition to its container port on Tuesday, aiming to handle more of the increasing number of mega-ships plying the oceans. A few of the planned 15 berths in Phases 3 and 4 of the Pasir Panjang Terminal are operational. The rest of the S$3.5 billion ($2.6 billion) project is scheduled to… Read More