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In reviewing the details announced today in President Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget request, the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) – the recognized and unified voice of America’s seaports – sees declines for most federally funded, port-related programs. However, AAPA is encouraged by the Administration’s recently announced major infrastructure initiative to support $1 trillion in… Read More
A Chinese construction company will deepen the approach channel and alongside depth of the Ukrainian port of Yuzhny as the government steps up efforts to secure investment under the Belt and Road program. The deal follows the official adoption earlier this year of an ambitious development plan for the port, which sits on the Black… Read More
Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, joined by Representatives Peter DeFazio (OR-4), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1), and Earl Blumenauer (OR-3), today urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to support essential dredging and maintenance of Oregon’s small ports in its 2017 work plan. “Oregon’s ports and harbors are the lifeblood of the coastal… Read More
The Port Chalmers Yacht Club is urging the Otago Regional Council to undertake a dredging programme at Back Beach and Careys Bay. Graeme Wall, of the club, made that point, linked to the club’s earlier written submission, at an Otago Regional Council draft annual plan hearing in Dunedin yesterday. Mr Wall indicated that Back Beach… Read More
The large fences and dust cloth on the corner of SH30 and Kope Drain Road outside Whakat?ne marks the start of construction of Containment Site 1 (CS1) for the Kopeopeo Canal Remediation Project. The Project Manager, Brendon Love, said that April and May had been a busy months working with the contractors, EnviroWaste Ltd, to… Read More
Local watermen and other fishing industry representatives urged Rep. Andy Harris (R-1st) last week to lean harder on the Army Corps of Engineers to find a solution to the sandbars and shoals that are hampering navigation of the Ocean City Inlet area. The corps is gathering information on the 53-foot scour hole near Homer Gudelsky… Read More
Napier Port has changed its mind on where it wants to dispose of 3 million cubic metres of dredged sea floor. The removal of sea floor, primarily silt and mudstone, would create a channel to a 350m wharf needed to grow the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council-owned port’s capacity and to berth bigger ships. Port chief… Read More
Summer is nearly here, and your family might be among the 6.5 million people expected to visit Galveston this year. Now, there’s more to enjoy. On Thursday, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, Galveston Park Board, City of Galveston officials and parts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency celebrated the completion of a $19.5 million… Read More
Minister of State for Forest and Environment, Mir Zahoor Ahmad today paid visit to World Famous Wetland Hokersar in the city of Srinagar and took stock of the measures and initiatives taken up by the Department of Wildlife Protection for restoration of the reserve site of Hokersar. MLA Batmaloo, Noor Mohammad Sheikh, Principal Chief Conservator… Read More
The European Commission has widened the scope of its rules on public investment in ports and airports to encourage infrastructure development. The Commission has extended the 2014 General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) to cover ports and regional airports, culture and ‘outermost regions’. Under the EU state aid rules member states must normally notify the Commission… Read More