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Governor Charlie Baker and the Massachusetts Port Authority Friday afternoon kicked off a $350 million dollar project to dredge Boston Harbor, opening the port to bigger industrial ships and promising new economic opportunity. The Republican governor joined Democratic US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey and Congressman Stephen Lynch to highlight the economic impacts of… Read More
THE long awaited dredging of the Gold Coast’s Coomera River is on track after the awarding of a multimillion-dollar contract to a local company to build a new management facility. In a report from April The Gold Coast Bulletin said the decade-long battle to dredge the river so it could be opened up for super… Read More
The 14,414-TEU CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the biggest neo-Panamax containership to call on the U.S. East Coast, made its debut in New York Harbor Thursday, transiting under the newly elevated Bayonne Bridge at Port Elizabeth, N.J. The 1,200’x158’ Theodore Roosevelt, on its maiden voyage from Asia, drew a crowd to the Kill Van Kull to… Read More
Monroe County’s 29 miles of riverfront property soon may be part of a new port district overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The proposed Mid-Ohio River Valley Port District would stretch from the Gallia/Meigs county line in the south, up the Ohio River to include Columbiana County. According to Karen Pawloski, transportation planning… Read More
Construction has begun on the greenfield multi-purpose port project at Posorja, Ecuador, with work expected to take 24 months to complete. It follows the 50-year concession DP World won last year to build a facility with a capacity of 750,000 teu, located 65 km from Guayaquil. The US$500m initial investment (Phase 1) includes the purchase… Read More
Dredging of the Opureora channel at Matakana Island is underway and expected to be completed in another month. The dredging project being undertaken by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council is intended to improve low tide access to the Opureora wharf and jetty, says regional council communications advisor Harry Singh. Hydra-care (NZ) and their subcontractor… Read More
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Rep. Bob Brady, D-Pa., joined with local officials at the Port of Philadelphia’s Packer Avenue Marine Terminal on Friday, Aug. 25 to announce that funding has been secured to complete the Delaware River Deepening Project. The project, which has been in the works for 25 years, is deepening the… Read More
CAIRNS Regional Council’s call for the State Government to take responsibility for the dumping of Trinity Inlet dredge spoils has received backing from the Local Government Association of Queensland. Groups across the Far North are finalising their recommendations ahead of the closure of submissions to the project’s environmental impact statement at 5pm today. The council… Read More
A FIGHT is brewing between Cairns Regional Council and the State Government over who should bear the cost if something goes wrong with the dumping of dredge spoils from Trinity Inlet. In the revised draft environmental impact statement for the Cairns Shipping Development Project the council would be responsible for about 5km of pipelines delivering… Read More
The marina port development project in the Port of Benoa, Bali, will start on September 18, 2017, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan noted. Speaking on the sidelines of observing the ship of KRI Banjarmasin 592 at the Port of Benoa on Thursday (August 24), the minister said that such decision is in… Read More