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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking comments on the draft Environmental Assessment, or EA, for the Tower-Breitung municipal water treatment plant improvement project in St. Louis County, Minnesota. The project, located in the Tower-Breitung communities, would improve the filtration capabilities of the existing municipal water treatment plant and provide safer… Read More
Gulf Coast ports in Houston and New Orleans reported strong cargo volumes in February as plastics and resins helped drive exports of loaded containers. Port Houston sees import growth slowing but exports rising Port Houston container volume in February rose 15% compared to the same month last year to 313,452 twenty-foot equivalent units. “Our cargo activities… Read More
On Haven Beach on Virginia’s Middle Peninsula, trees are dying as the surrounding marshlands slowly convert into ponds. As the sea continues to rise, salt from the Chesapeake Bay is more easily sprayed through the wind onto surrounding flora, destroying it. The marshes are also becoming more susceptible to invasive plant life that thrives on… Read More
Los Angeles District Commander Col. Julie Balten led a team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review several military and civil works project sites Mar. 14-17 in Arizona. During the visit, the district met with military commanders and city leaders in Arizona to discuss future projects and promote the district’s engineering and construction… Read More
The federal Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IWG-OCM) has released the fourth annual report on progress made in mapping U.S. ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes waters. Knowledge of the depth, shape, and composition of the seafloor has far-reaching benefits, including safer navigation, hazard mitigation for coastal resilience, preservation of marine habitats and… Read More
Local, state and federal officials called it a crucial effort to restore the Everglades, and it is now under way. The final part of the Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands project began construction March 21 when Miami-Dade officials and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) broke ground on a pump station approved last September… Read More
BALTIMORE – The tenth annual International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum (IPF), hosted by the Business Network for Offshore Wind, will kick off this Tuesday, March 28 in Baltimore, Maryland. The three-day event is the largest offshore wind energy conferences in the Americas, bringing together global industry leaders, government officials, and companies working to build U.S. offshore wind infrastructure and supply chain. This year’s… Read More
As well as being an important habitat for marsh birds and other wildlife, improving water quality and flood resilience, salt marshes may also have implications for combating climate change. At a six-monthly meeting of the Ōhiwa Harbour Implementation Forum in the Bay of Plenty, chairman Toi Iti pointed to a report received at the previous… Read More
A combination of the Lunar New Year, ongoing labor negotiations and concern about a slowing global economy resulted in the Port of Los Angeles seeing a 43% year-over-year drop in container cargo in February. The port processed 487,846 20-foot-equivalent containers, down from last year’s 857,764. “February declines were exacerbated by an overall slowdown in global trade, extended… Read More
Maersk (Maersk) announced today that the company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) on strategic cooperation for Shanghai Port methanol marine fuel project. The two parties will join hands to explore green methanol fuel vessel-to-vessel bunkering operation after Maersk’s green methanol container vessels being delivered in 2024. Maersk… Read More