India is planning to secure its naval harbours with electronic fences, the BBC has learnt. The fences are part of the Integrated Harbour Defence System to secure the harbours “against clandestine threat from sea”, security officials say. It is part of a plan to protect the country’s coastline after
U.S. Naval Station Mayport Channel The work includes dredging approximately 725 thousand cubic yards of material from the Entrance Channel… Source: U.S. Army, December 8, 2009;
The Government in the UK is facing fresh calls for a study into the potential impact of offshore dredging on coastal erosion. According to The Yorkshire Post, residents, fishermen and environmental campaigners have long claimed that dredging contributes to the erosion of the East Coast – a link deni
Kvichak Marine Industries and Nichols Brothers Boat Builders recently delivered the third of four high-speed, environmentally friendly ferries to the Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) located in San Francisco. ‘Scorpio’, measuring 36 metres by 8.8 metres by 1.8 metres, is a high-speed
Marseilles Fos has become the latest European port to announce plans to not put up rates next year in order to help customers. The Marseilles Fos supervisory board agreed to freeze 2010 port tariffs to support customers “in a strained economic context” and enhance the port’s competitiveness.
Radio Holland Group announces the official opening of a new service office in Port Elizabeth. The new office will start on January 4th 2010 and the official, celebratory opening will take place in February. This will be the 63rd office in the Radio Holland Global Network and the 6th office in South
LEE COUNTY — It looks like the beach will get wider at Fort Myers Beach, but only part of it. Lee County commissioners are poised to abandon a 4.6-mile, $10.5 million… Source: Naples Daily News, December 7, 2009
The dredger that Councillor Bob Spooner has dubbed Captain Cobourg has begun to pay for itself, he announced at last week’s council meeting… Source:North Umberland Today, December 7, 2009
The expansion of the Panama Canal has prompted Cuba to fund the expansion and modernisation of its three main ports in collaboration with China and Venezuela… Source: Port Strategy, December 8, 2009;
The Gladstone Ports Corporation has awarded a five year exclusive license to SMIT for the provision of harbour towage services in the Port of Gladstone. The operation will start on the 1st of January 2011. Part of the agreement will include the provision of five new powerful 70 ton bollard pull harb
Rising container trade through the ports is a good sign the industrial property market is on the rebound, according to researchers at Jones Lang LaSalle. JLL’s associate director of research, Andrew Ballantyne, told BusinessDay that container trade was a good pointer to rising demand for goods, whic
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding it tipped to come up the top among South Korean shipbuilders in terms of the number of new orders in 2009. In 2008, STX came in second after Hyundai Heavy Industries. In 2009, STX received 23 vessel orders, worth a total of US$2.3 billion. The orderbook includes contracts
West coast shipbuilders are vying to win British Columbia an equitable share of $40 billion promised by Ottawa to upgrade Canada’s marine fleet. The federal Conservatives are expected to announce later this month how they intend to disperse funding for a massive upgrade of defence and security vesse
The National Human Rights Commission will ask Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to scrap a business proposal that would see the dredging of a large network of waterways in Phang Nga… Source: The Nation, December 8, 2009
