The biggest container ship to call at Hamburg, the 13,800 TEU CMA CGM flagship ‘Christophe Colomb’, will visit the German Elbe port… By Tom Todd [mappress] Source: maritimejournal, June 19, 2010;
People have been fishing, boating and enjoying the great outdoors in North Park for nearly eight decades, and by this time next year… [mappress] Source: thepittsburghchannel, June 19, 2010;
Tucked away in the Town of Hilton Head Island’s budget is a relatively small amount of money for a study that could have big implications… [mappress] Source: islandpacket, June 19, 2010;
Sheboygan County officials remain optimistic that they’ll be able to not just get the rest of the contaminated Sheboygan River cleaned up… [mappress] Source: sheboyganpress, June 19, 2010;
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has replaced its 42-year-old survey vessel Hixon with a newly minted catamaran that’s faster, more stable… [mappress] Source: mycentraloregon, June 19, 2010;
Sri Lanka Ports Authority said yesterday the Oluvil Port Project has recorded a rapid progress of construction during the recent past… [mappress] Source: dailymirror, June 19, 2010;
An IADC Best Paper Award for a Young Author was presented to Kaitlin McCormick of EA Engineering, Science and Technology, Inc. of Maryland… [mappress] Source: IADC, June 18, 2010
The Panama Canal is a 77 km (48 mi) ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Annual traffic has risen from about 1,000 ships in the canal’s early days to 14,702 vessels in 2008, displacing a total 309.6 million Pa
For approximately two months, dredging operations will be carried out [off Kwai Chung Container Terminals 1, 2, 3 & 4]. [mappress] Source: logisticsweek, June 18, 2010;
The Shaw Group Inc. is working to pry loose and draw in a large portion of the nation’s dredging fleet―potentially seven cutterheads, five… [mappress] Source: enr.ecnext, June 18, 2010;
Crews will dredge thousands of cubic yards of sediment from a Colorado reservoir, the legacy of the 2002 Hayman wildfire that stripped… [mappress] Source: washingtonexaminer, June 18, 2010;
The City of Mainz and Frankenbach Container Terminal are constructing a new trimodal terminal in the Ingelheimer Au industrial area. In the first phase, 80,000 of the available 130,000 m2 will be used. Initially the handling capacity is 160,000 containers, some 260,000 TEU. The investments are appro
Port regulator Penang Port Commission (PPC) has requested for a RM351 million allocation under the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP) for capital… [mappress] Source: btimes, June 18, 2010;
Global marine terminal operator DP World today announced that its concession for the port of Maputo, Mozambique has been extended to 2033… [mappress] Source: ameinfo, June 18, 2010;
