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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has puts its review of whether Hudson River PCB dredging has been successful on hold while it evaluates new information from New York state, EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez said Thursday. PCBs are a suspected carcinogen. “Long story short from EPA, we are signaling that we don’t know everything,” Lopez… Read More
A South Korean company, through its Philippine subsidiary, has offered to undertake the expansion and modernization of Port Irene in Santa Ana, Cagayan, in a proposal to dredge the port’s harbor and reinforce its pier that would allow large cargo and cruise vessels to dock. Secretary Raul L. Lambino, administrator and CEO of the Cagayan… Read More
On March 15, Gov. Greg Abbott announced authorization of about $5 million in initial funding for flood control projects to support the Kingwood area. Abbott announced that $3 million in funding has been preapproved to cover engineering and permitting costs of dredging the San Jacinto River basin, according to a press release. The state also… Read More
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey has put before the chiefs and people of Tema Traditional Area four developmental projects, which he believes, will transform the area. Among them is the dredging of the Sakumono Lagoon, which will help preserve the Lagoon and improve fish production in the Lagoon. Mr. Ashitey said this when… Read More
A multi million dollar dredging program has been announced for the Port of Karumba. The $6.8 million program will begin in the coming months to create a channel depth of 3.2 metres. The Karumba port channel was developed to facilitate the Century Mine operations in 1999. The ongoing annual maintenance dredging of the channel was… Read More
Industry players are eagerly anticipating the completion of a cruise terminal at Bali’s Port Benoa late this year after multiple delays, with the enhanced infrastructure expected to help address capacity strains at Denpasar airport and boost tourism numbers. Once construction is completed, the Port of Benoa is expected to transform into a world-class port that… Read More
Andrei Tarasenko, Acting Governor of the Primorsky Territory, and Jorge Delgado, Vice President of Business Development, Global Government and Community Relations, Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD. have met today, 20 March 2018, to discuss the forthcoming calls of the cruise company’s ships to the port of Vladivostok, says press center of the regional government. According to… Read More
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UAE-based Lamprell, a provider of fabrication, engineering and contracting services, has announced that construction work at its new joint venture maritime yard at Ras Al Khair in eastern Saudi Arabia is under way. The joint venture company, International Maritime Industries Company (IMI) , is a partnership between Lamprell, Saudi Aramco, the National Shipping Company of… Read More
The Port of Hamburg celebrated the largest container ship to ever sail up Germany’s Elbe River, but the arrival of 20,776 TEU CMA CGM Antoine de Saint Exupery also served as another reminder of the urgent need to deepen river access to the North Europe hub. On its maiden call to Hamburg with the FAL1… Read More