THE MARITIME Industrial Park (MIP) is where investors would be invited to locate their shipbuilding yards. The MIP covers 100 hectares of shoreline property located within the 3,000-hectare Phividec Industrial Estate in Tagaloan town in the southern province of Misamis Oriental. It will be developed
Dredges began widening Patrick Air Force Base Monday to repair shoreline eroded by hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today. Dredges from Weeks Marine, Inc. arrived and completed their set-up operations on Sunday, according to the report.
OAK HARBOR — The State Controlling Board has released $25,000 to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for dredging projects at the Portage River Access Wildlife Areas and Metzger Marsh. The funds provide for the initial design and engineering stages of a project to be started later this year.
Our corner of the United States was once an afterthought, as China focused its trade on the West Coast and Northeast. No more. The world’s fastest-growing industrial nation has ramped up its business dealings with South Florida. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the Port of Miami, where cargo to
A Michigan congressman said last week she will seek $2.5 million for federal officials to investigate the theory behind a potentially underrated source of Great Lakes water level declines. U.S. Rep. Candice Miller (R., Mich.) wants the Army Corps of Engineers and U.S.-Canada International Joint Comm
Cruise-ship visits to St. Croix dropped 95 percent, from 237,407 passengers on 138 cruise-ship calls in 2001 to 12,606 on five cruise-ship visits through November of last year, according to Henry de Lagarde, director of USVI tourism in New York City.
The long-awaited dredge of Seabrook/Hampton Harbor is almost complete. Project superintendent Mike Will, called Twink for Twinkletoes by his colleagues, said he thinks he and the dozen men who work for him have another three weeks on the dredge barge before returning to Indiana, headquarters for his
The Fox Waterway Agency will spend nearly four times as much money on dredging this year as it did last year, but the agency still will focus efforts on Grass Lake. The agency board recently passed a $3.27 million budget. The new budget increases the amount for dredging from $50,000 to $190,000.
The dozens of cargo ships anchored off the coast of Southern California last summer painted the picture of a robust economy, but behind the stranded armada waiting to unload its cargos was a story of supply-chain chaos and a damaging trade imbalance. Experts say the logjam experienced at the ports o
The Port of Vancouver will need a new facility or a redevelopment of an existing one every two years from 2006 to 2016, costing a total of C$1.4 billion (S$1.8 billion). This is to help it to cope with the surging transpacific cargo volumes, said the head of the Vancouver Port Authority (VPA).
Chinese trading houses are seeking term fuel oil cargoes from suppliers with storage facilities outside Singapore following an imminent global ban on single-hulled tankers, industry sources said yesterday.
SUMATEC Resources Bhd has enhanced its position in the marine transportation and logistics business with the acquisition of four Miri-based shipping companies for RM50mil.
MC Shipping Inc. has announced the acquisition of a further large gas carrier that brings their total LPG fleet up to ten vessels. The company has acquired the former Shell owned 1983 built 59,000 cubic metre capacity vessel ISOMERIA.
BMW Oracle Racing today became the first America’s Cup team to start a 2005 full-scale two-boat testing programme on the Mediterranean waters off the coast of Valencia, Spain, site of the 32nd America’s Cup. The Challenger of Record launched their ‘turbo-charged’ Version 5 boats, USA-71 and USA-76,
