The Port of New Orleans has some major projects to look forward to in the New Year.
The renovations are geared toward taking advantage of the upcoming expansion of the Panama Canal.
By 2014 some of the largest ships now sailing the seas will be coming through the expanded Canal from the Pacific Ocean, which in turn [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, hoping that a get-tough approach can turn around the failing effort to save the Chesapeake Bay, outlined Tuesday ideas for punishing states that don’t do their part.
Those punishments, the agency said, will fall on states that either don’t meet their goals for cutting pollution draining into Chesapeake tributaries or don’t [...]
Propelling port expansion plans further, the Shipping Ministry will award a Rs 1,407-crore contract for building a container terminal at Ennore and another contract for a project at Vizag next week.
“The bids for Ennore project had been called in June, but we could not open the documents due to a Madras High Court order. Now [...]
Peru’s private investment promotion agency ProInversión has launched a tender to build and operate the new Yurimaguas-Nueva Reforma river port in Loreto region.
The project consists of the design, construction, maintenance and operation of the new terminal over a 30-year period, according to the ProInversión website.
The terminal will be located in Nueva Reforma, some 20km downstream [...]
The effects of the economic meltdown and near collapse of the financial markets of late 2008 and early 2009 manifested themselves at the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) in a reduction of cargo volumes beginning in January of 2009.
Nearly two-thirds of the port’s container volume is cargo bound for or coming from Puerto Rico. That country’s [...]
The Union shipping ministry has identified 17 projects to be executed on public-private partnership, or the so-called PPP, basis.
Earlier in September this year, the ministry had dropped 15 port development projects planned under the ambitious National Maritime Development Programme (NMDP), and then taken up another eight that were to be funded by the government.
“Seventeen new [...]
A consortium of Spain’s FCC, Mexico’s ICA and Costa Rica’s Meco has won the final Panama Canal dry-excavation contract with a US$ 267.8 million bid. The consortium beat Belgium’s Jan de Nul, Brazil’s Oderbrecht and the ISC Panama consortium to win the contract, the second largest in the US$ 5.25 billion canal expansion programme.
The contract [...]
Delaware appears increasingly anxious to churn out an approval for a Delaware River main channel deepening, under terms that would salvage its pride and protect states’ rights to have a say on such projects.
But what some call the state’s newfound eagerness to approve the dredging is raising the ire of environmental groups opposed to the [...]
HUE — The dredging of Hue’s Phat Lat Canal, which has been blocked for years by debris, will help improve the flow of An Cuu and Nhu Y rivers.
The water flow of the 2.5km-canal that connects the two rivers has been blocked for years by trash thrown away by local residents.
The work, including a 1.5m-deep [...]
In the past dipper dredges have often been cobbled together with machinery designed to work in a terrestrial environment. When working in a marine environment their useful life is severely limited by the saltwater environs. Now the Netherlandss Yard De Donge have designed and built a powerful machine perfectly suited to the marine environment.
An important [...]
