The town of Charlestown is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District for work in waters of the United States to dredge Ninigret Pond and place the material in the intertidal zone to nourish Charlestown Beach in Charlestown, Rhode Island. The town of Charlestown is
Recently, CCCC Fourth Harbor Consultants Co., Ltd. has won the bid for the refining & chemical terminal reconstruction & extension EPC contract in Hainan Province, with a contract value of 947 million yuan and a construction period of 22 months. Located at Shentou port area, Yangpu Economic and Deve
Cape Town boasts the second deepest container port in Africa and expects to see its container capacity expand to one million TEU’s per annum by 2013. The Port is ideally suited to serve as a hub for cargoes between Europe, the Americas and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and this year sets the stage for A
The Port of Rotterdam Authority expects to invest tens of millions of euros in the port of Dordrecht in the coming years. Important parts of the revitalisation are the improvement of nautical access, especially the draught, the construction of new jetties for inland shipping and a filling in to crea
According to al.com, BAE Systems and Weeks Marine Inc. marked a major milestone in the life of the MV Magdalen, an 8,500 cubic yard capacity trailing suction hopper dredger. BAE Systems Southeast Shipyard Alabama LLC in Mobile hosted the traditional keel-laying ceremony for the ship, during which We
Two weeks after Hurricane Isaac’s U.S. landfall, BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization provided an update yesterday of the storm’s impact on Deepwater Horizon clean up operations and how the company proposes dealing with the limited amounts of residual Macondo oil Isaac uncovered. “It was not une
Port Corpus Christi Authority (PCCA) Commissioners awarded the contract for the Pelican Island Shore Protection Project – Phase 2 to RLB Contracting Inc. Pelican Island is located in Corpus Christi Bay along the south side of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel between Port Aransas and the former Naval
Last week, on 4 September, ‘Ever Lambent’ was welcomed for the first time to the port of Rotterdam. This container ship from the Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen is the first of a series of 30 new ships to be added to its fleet in the next two years. The Ever Lambent can transport almost 8500 [&
North Korea reached a deal with a Chinese company to develop a local harbor in the northeast region of the country. According to koreajoongangdaily.com, Yanbian Haihua Group, a private Chinese developer, signed a formal contract with a North Korean firm to develop the Chongjin port in North Hamgyong
Kandla Port Trust (KPT) won recognition as the Major Port of the Year for 2011-12 at the third All-India Maritime and Logistics Awards 2012 (MALA 2012) held on Friday, September 7 at the Vivanta by Taj President. This is the third time in a row, the Kandla Port has won such prestigious Maritime and
Last weekend, the 35th edition of the World Port Days were held in Rotterdam. Damen Shipyards Group looks back on three successful days. Thousands of visitors got to know Damen through visiting the Damen stand or one of the many Damen-built vessels that participated in the event. Several hundreds of
The leading British architect Zaha Hadid gave the official order to begin construction work on Port House, the new headquarters for Antwerp Port Authority on the Kattendijk dock. The order was given in the presence of the Flemish ministers Hilde Crevits and Geert Bourgeois, port alderman Marc Van Pe
Mechel OAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces the signing of a long-term partnership agreement with South Korea’s STX Group during the Business Summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Chairman of the Board of Directors Igor Zyuzin signed the agreement
The Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar, said that the RM22bil Mersing Laguna project had been cancelled after the developer failed to fulfil a condition in the agreement. “The developer, Radiant Starfish Development Berhad, had failed to raise the paid-up capital to RM200mil wi
