Pressure to expand the Port of Hastings to play a larger role as a container port has increased with the release of a blueprint by Asciano outlining its ambitions for the next 30 years.
The transport infrastructure group, parent company of National Rail and Patrick Stevedores, which operates the Port of Hastings, has presented its bold [...]
Work is well under way on stage one of the Port of Townsville’s $110 million Townsville Marine Precinct. The project is an extension of the port near the Ross River mouth and is designed to establish a world-class facility for marine-related industries.
Port general manager major projects Matthew O’Halloran said additional land at the southern end [...]
Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) is fully operational following an extensive assessment by structural engineers. LPC has however sustained significant damage from Saturday morning’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake, centered approximately 40 kilometres from the port. The cost to repair the damage to the port is likely to be tens of millions of dollars.
Following the earthquake LPC [...]
Van Oord was recently awarded the dredging works for the Cape Lambert Port B Project by Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd. The project comprises the construction of a new port facility adjacent to the existing Cape Lambert Port facility in Western Australia. This will involve the construction of a new train unloading infrastructure, stockyard, ship loading [...]
It will be at least another six weeks before Launceston sees the promised state government money for silt dredging in the Tamar.
When it comes, the $1 million announced by Premier David Bartlett a fortnight ago will be distributed in two lots over 18 months.
A spokesman for Premier David Bartlett yesterday said that the $1 million [...]
The consent hearing for Port Otago’s Project Next Generation harbour-dredging application may be put on hold for up to six months because of the number of submissions to the application.
Port Otago has applied to the Otago Regional Council for consent to deepen, widen and maintain the channel from the harbour entrance to the swinging area [...]
The Port of Melbourne has completed its dredging project nearly a quarter of a billion Australian dollars under budget.
Victorian premier John Brumby announced the Port Phillip Bay channel deepening project was done A$248m (US$222m) below the estimated target cost, which includes environmental monitoring costs to 2012.
The deepening project is vital to allow bigger vessels into [...]
The Swan River inlet was cloudy at least far as Melville last week, with dredging commenced on the second phase of deepening the Fremantle Inner Port.
Widely criticised, the dredging began earlier this month on removing layers of limestone from the river and depositing them 7km off Cottesloe Beach.
The first report, by environmental marine and estuary [...]
The New Zealand port of Tauranga has received support from the country’s Shippers’ Council to become an international hub port.
“[The] Port of Tauranga has welcomed the [New Zealand] Shippers’ Council recommendation that it should become New Zealand’s North Island international hub port,” a statement from the port said.
The council had approved the port’s application to [...]
Lyttelton Port Co. has reiterated its commitment to merger talks with Port of Otago while posting weaker full-year earnings that it says masks a second-half recovery.
Profit fell to $9 million in the 12 months ended June 30 from $10.1 million a year earlier, the company said in a statement. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and [...]
