A new custom-built cutter suction dredger destined for the Panama Canal has been launched by IHC Merwede on Monday 6 September. The 12,000kW vessel has been designed and built by IHC Beaver Dredgers at its Sliedrecht shipyard in The Netherlands for the Panama Canal Authority* (ACP – the Panama Government’s autonomous agency).
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Today, September 7, Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and Antwerp Port Authority signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly help foster commercial activity between the two authorities.
The first of its kind between the ACP and a European port, the MOU will increase cooperation, such as joint marketing and coordination on modernization and expansion projects, [...]
The Economic Alliance Port Region, the champion of all things industry and commerce in the port region, will be hosting the 2010 Petrochemical & Maritime Outlook Conference on Sept. 8.
The event, which will be held in the Pasadena Convention Center located on at 7902 Fairmont Pkwy, will discuss among other topics: the economic outlook for [...]
To those outside the shipping industry it might not make much sense, this whole notion that a multibillion- dollar civil works project in Latin America dictates the future of the Port of Charleston.
But the Panama Canal expansion, as State Ports Authority chief executive Jim Newsome explains it, “is a game-changer” and the biggest development since [...]
Environmental protection officials said Thursday they plan to shift focus from cleaning up PCB toxins in sewer drains and some canals off Jefferson to finding the source of the decade-long contamination.
“Finding the source is our primary focus before we look at a remedy,” said Colleen Moynihan, remedial project manager for the EPA, during a [...]
An examination of construction sites by the Hankyoreh has confirmed that the dredging efforts currently taking place around the country as part of the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project follow a “canal model” that would allow the future passage of boats, rather than a natural river servicing model.
The examination, carried out Sunday by the Hankyoreh [...]
The Panama Canal, an important component of international trade, marked 96 years of uninterrupted activity on Sunday with the challenge of completing its expansion and increasing capacity.
According to the Panama Canal Authority, some 998,000 ships from more than 100 countries have moved through its locks in the last 96 years (an average of 40 daily).
The [...]
Chuck Williams of Delaware’s Division of Soil and Water Conservation has been involved with the dredging of the Assawoman Canal for 20 years. But he can’t retire quite yet.
Williams said this week completion of the project, first expected in June, will now take another month. “We’re looking at early to mid-September,” said Williams.
“We have approvals [...]
Construction companies compete to dredge, excavate channel entrance.The Panama Canal Authority said it received three bids on Aug. 6 from international engineering and construction companies that are competing to dredge and excavate the Pacific Access Channel entrance.
This project represents the last major contract to be awarded in the canal’s expansion program. Once completed, the project [...]
The Cohoes Common Council in a 5-1 vote, passed a resolution of support for the navigational dredging of the Champlain Canal.
The canal, which connects Lake Champlain with the Hudson River, was constructed along with the Erie Canal and is now part of the New York State Canal System.
In recent years however, the State has been [...]
