Mounting concern over congestion at Australian ports has seen the members of the Oceania Vessel Sharing Agreement (OVSA) add an extra vessel to its Pacific Southwest (PSW) service stringh. The deployment of Hamburg Süd’s 2,723TEU ‘Cap Blanche’ now means the service is plied by seven 2,500TEU vessels
Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s proposals for a Thames Estuary airport looked set to remain a fantasy after its champion and civil engineer Douglas Oakervee this week pulled out of feasibility discussions… Source: New Civil Engineer, March 2, 2010
Broward County’s seaport is undertaking a $2 billion expansion to prepare for an expected increase in cargo, fuel and cruise passenger traffic over the next 20 years, a massive investment that will help rev up the economy and create jobs in the area, Port Everglades Director Phil Allen said… [mappre
According to a press release sent to Alaska Beat by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, Knik Construction of Anchorage has been awarded a $31.9 million contract to build a harbor for the Aleutian island of Akutan. This project is separate from the recently reported $75 million… [mappr
Redoubling their efforts to protect South Jersey’s environment, Governor Chris Christie and Department of Environmental Protection Acting Commissioner Bob Martin today joined forces with U.S. Representative Rob Andrews and state Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney to oppose the Army Corps of Enginee
The dredging of the River Niger is going on as planned and government has no plan to divert any money from the amount meant for the dredging of the river or suspend the dredging work, Minister of Transport Alhaji Ibrahim Isa Bio has said.
The Navy has awarded an $824.6 million contract to General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego to build the service’s last two ships in the Lewis and Clark class, the company said yesterday. Construction of the Medgar Evers and the unnamed final vessel is scheduled to begin this year, with delivery to the
Production at the UK Don Southwest is ready to restart after drilling of a third production well partner Valiant Petroleum has said while a regrading of field reserves has also been carried out. After drilling a new production well on Area 22 within the Don Southwest field with the Transocean John S
More than 40 per cent of British-flagged shipping capacity could move elsewhere unless the government’s equality bill is amended, a shipowners’ trade body has warned. The Chamber of Shipping is concerned that equal pay provisions in the bill, going through parliament, appear to apply to British-flag
A Dutch government proposal to make TenneT responsible for a planned offshore electricity transmission grid will enable “optimal integration” of the Dutch network with the wider European network. According to Utility Week, TenneT, which is responsible for the management of the Netherlands’ high volt
After more than two decades of debate and lawsuits, on Monday an Army Corps of Engineers dredge contractor carved away the first loads of silt in a $310 million project to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel. But minutes after the dredging pipe was scheduled to bite into the river bottom, New
Three days after the MSC Magnifica flag ceremony at the STX Europe shipyard in Saint-Nazaire (France), MSC Cruises signed a letter of intent for the delivery of a new ship in June 2012, to join the eleven new vessels built over the past seven years. MSC Cruises’ worldwide CEO, Pierfrancesco Vago, sa
Approaching pre-GFC levels, total trade through the Port of Melbourne increased 9.5 percent in January compared with the corresponding month the previous year, according to the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC).
Danish forces boarded and sank a pirate control ship as part of Nato operations off the coast of Somalia. The Absalon, a Danish attack support ship, sank a pirate control ship off the coast of Somalia on Sunday, according to a Nato press release.
