Experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will conduct a public workshop Dec. 15, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Savannah Civic Center to discuss the recently announced proposal to deepen the Savannah Harbor from its current depth down to a maximum depth of 48 feet. The details on the project ar
BP Egypt announced today that it has made a significant gas discovery in the Deepwater West Nile Delta area. The Hodoa discovery is located in the West Mediterranean Deepwater, Nile Delta concession, some 80 km northwest of Alexandria. The WMDW-7 well was drilled to a depth of 6350 metres and is the
For years, boaters departing Nanticoke Marina have worried about the water’s shrinking depths, a byproduct of the accumulating silt and … By Greg Latshaw (delawareonline) [mappress] Source: delawareonline, November 25, 2010;
Allegheny County needs $3 million more than it initially planned to finish the troubled North Park Lake dredging project by May, county …” By Timothy Puko (pittsburghlive) [mappress] Source: pittsburghlive, November 25, 2010;
Some Mare Island property that has technically qualified as wetlands may soon be enhanced to more properly fit the definition. The Vallejo… By Jessica A. York (timesheraldonline) [mappress] Source: timesheraldonline, November 25, 2010;
Intermodal Europe – the world’s leading conference and exhibition for container transport and logistics over road, rail and sea – begins in Amsterdam in next week, from the 30 November – 2 December. Along with thousands of professionals from all areas of the intermodal industry gathering at the show
Designed to provide unparalleled reach and capabilities for today’s surface fleet, the Piranha USV (unmanned surface vessel) from Zyvex Technologies is the largest boat built from nano-enhanced materials. Constructed entirely of Arovex, a nanotube-reinforced carbon fiber, the 16.5m boat weighs only
About 1.77 million travellers in the United Kingdom are predicted to go on a cruise in 2011, according to the Passenger Shipping Association (PSA). The PSA says that the ocean cruise market in the UK will hit a record number of passengers next year, with an eight percent increase on the 1.64 million
Global shipping freight rates out of Asia were down again last week, with prices to Europe sliding almost 2%, compared with two weeks ago, and rates to the US west coast down 3%.
Volumes through European ports are expected to grow next year, despite the austerity measures being introduced by EU governments.
Two containerships have collided at the entrance to the Hooghly river in West Bengal, India, leaving one of the vessels in danger of sinking.
Manufacturer of control and instrumentation for marine rotating machinery AMOT receives the first bearing wear monitoring system type approval according to Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL) “Guidelines for Machinery Condition Monitoring”. AMOT’s condition monitoring system provides online supervision of cra
The Netherlands’ Rijkswaterstaat has again chosen Tideland’s SeaBeacon 2 System 6 dual-band racon for installation on buoys as an aid to navigation and to mark special locations in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The latest order for four racons was supplied via Tideland’s representative in the N
Shipbuilding education in Russia from Peter The Great’s training experience in Holland and England at the end of the 17th century until the present time will come under the spotlight on 15 December, when Professor Kirill V Rozhdestvenskiy DSc CEng FIMarEST delivers the Institute of Marine Engineerin
