Port Houston held an event on Oct. 8 to celebrate the completion of the Port Houston-led segments of Project 11, the Houston Ship Channel expansion project. The project widened the channel from 530 feet to 700 feet, and created bird islands, oyster reefs and marsh habitat with the dredged material. Widening the channel improves efficiency… Read More
South Australia’s Wakefield Regional Council has begun major major maintenance and renewal works at the Port Wakefield Tidal Pool, which will see the construction of a new footbridge and maintenance dredging of the tidal swimming pool. Civil Tech Pty Ltd was awarded the contract by Council to deliver both the dredging works and footbridge renewal…. Read More
By Alan Bosworth The Port of Gothenburg in Sweden has finished strengthening the south quay serving its container terminal. The work clears the way for blasting and dredging alongside the berth to begin on Tuesday, October 13. The port said the quay work, which took more than two years, was finished on schedule and within… Read More
By Chanshimla Varah Bangladesh has signed a $335.78 million concessional loan agreement with China to expand and modernize the Mongla Port, located 80km from the Indian border. The deal was inked between the Bangladesh government and China’s Export-Import Bank on Saturday, according to state-run BSS news agency. The concessional loan will carry an interest rate… Read More
By Mike Schuler The Port of Los Angeles handled a record 1,042,652 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in September, marking the busiest month in its 118-year history as strong consumer demand and shifting global trade routes continued to drive cargo volumes through the nation’s busiest container port. September’s total surpassed the previous monthly record, set in… Read More
