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  • Germany: Ramsauer Gives Assurance of Rapid Aid for Kiel Canal

    19 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Infrastructural bottlenecks in port hinterland traffic are becoming increasingly acute, irrespective of the mode of transport, and are fuelling growing alarm among all the players involved. Such was the universal feeling at the parliamentary evening in Berlin organized by Port of Hamburg Marketing and attended by Peter Ramsauer, Germany’s Minister of Transport, and around 150 […]

  • US National Park Touts Success of IMS Versi-Dredge in Restoring Canoe Trail

    13 October 2011

    The Jean Lafitte National Park in Louisiana, USA faced typical waterway maintenance issues in their canoe trail canal system. Over time, silt build-up and displaced vegetation slowly filled in the canals making them un-navigable for recreationists. In order to prevent the canals from filling in completely, park management had to ensure that they not only […]

  • Croatia: “Niccolo Machiavelli” Delivered – Fourth Dredger Built in Uljanik

    16 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    On the 14th of September 2011 Uljanik Shipyard delivered the fourth Self-Propelled Cutter Suction Dredger, named “Niccolò Machiavelli”, to the Luxembourg company Jan De Nul S.A. Capellen G. D. Luxembourg that forms part of the Jan De Nul Group. As a reminder,the first dredger “Ibn Battuta” was delivered to the same buyer at the end […]

  • Royalty exemptions could save the day for U.S. oil and gas operators, Rystad says

    21 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    The Covid-19 pandemic and the price crisis it has brought upon the oil and gas sector have hit the profitability of exploration and production (E&P) companies hard.

  • UK: Formal Consultation on Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Set for July

    17 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The proposed £650 million tidal lagoon has taken another step forward with the announcement that formal consultation will begin on Thursday 4 July 2013 with a series of public exhibitions throughout Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. With the £2million community share offer open until 15 July, Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Plc has published their statement […]

  • USA: St. Joe Signs Letter of Intent with Enova Energy Group

    21 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    The St. Joe Company announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Enova Energy Group (“Enova”), a full service, clean energy development company specializing in development and operations of contracted renewable based assets. The LOI contemplates economic development opportunities for Florida’s Northwest region, including the potential to bolster usage of the AN […]

  • The Netherlands: APM Terminals Presents Innovative Terminal Design

    19 March 2012

      APM Terminals is building a new container terminal at Maasvlakte II in the Port of Rotterdam opening in November 2014 that promises to set the pace for new terminal design and customer satisfaction levels. Executives announced today the selection of container handling equipment for horizontal transport of containers that offers higher productivity levels and […]

  • USACE Balances Economic Revitalization and Sustainable Environment (USA)

    18 April 2012

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District and its regional partners are committed to achieve the vision of a World Class Harbor Estuary. This vision balances economic revitalization of the Port of New York and New Jersey while creating a sustainable environment through comprehensive restoration and protection of public safety. Over the past […]

  • USA: New Bills Offer Hope for Lakes Dredging Crisis

    6 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Both the House of Representatives and the Senate have taken up legislation that could end the dredging crisis on the Great Lakes. H.R. 335 and S. 218 would require the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (“HMTF”) to spend what it takes in each year for dredging on dredging. Currently, the HMTF spends only one of every […]

  • Governor Tours Mud-to-Parks Site (USA)

    11 October 2012

    Governor Pat Quinn yesterday visited the East Peoria riverfront to announce the innovative Mud-to-Parks program, which makes use of soil dredged from the silt-choked Illinois River to build a new park on Lake Michigan. Sixty barge loads of sediment dredged from the Illinois River at East Peoria are traveling 163 miles to the old U.S. […]

  • USA: AAPA Gets New Board Chairman

    21 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    Virginia Port Authority Executive Director Jerry Bridges was formally installed on Sept. 15 as the American Association of Port Authorities’ (AAPA) chairman of the board for 2011-12. Mr. Bridges accepted his new chairmanship duties at a membership meeting in Seattle during which the entire slate of 2011-12 officers was inducted as part of AAPA’s 100th […]

  • Luxembourg: Dredger “Fernao de Magalhaes” Delivered to Jan De Nul

    5 May 2011
    Vessels

    On 19th April 2011. Uljanik shipyard delivered the third of four Self-Propelled Cutter Section Dredgers, named „Fernao de Magalhaes“, to the Luxembourg company Jan De Nul Luxembourg S.A. Capellan G.D. Luxembourg forming part of the Jan De Nul Group. As a reminder, the first dredger «Ibn Battuta» was delivered to the same buyer at the […]

  • ITF rescues abandoned crew from two ships from the same owner

    18 April 2023
    Authorities & Government, Green Marine, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    Thirteen Filipino seafarers have made it home after more than five months aboard an abandoned livestock carrier ship, the Yangtze Harmony, following an intervention from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF).   The ship’s owners abandoned the vessel and its crew after the ship was arrested in October 2022 in Singapore over an unpaid fuel bill. That […]

  • Driven by the big ban, LNG growth and energy transition to pick up speed – WoodMac

    16 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Transition

    War in Ukraine is transforming the outlook for the supply, demand, and price of hydrocarbons and the pace and cost of the energy transition, WoodMac says.

  • Yara Birkeland, world’s 1st fully-electric boxship, prepares for commercial ops

    10 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels

    Yara Birkeland, the world’s first autonomous and fully electric containership, will soon commence commercial operations while beginning a two-year test period, prior to entering full autonomous operation on a route off the coast of Norway.

  • Ports increasingly targeted by cyberattacks as maritime incidents surge

    20 July 2020
    Infrastructure, IT & Software, Ports & Logistics, Safety, Vessels

    Cyberattacks on the maritime industry’s operational technology systems have increased by 900% over the last three years with the number of reported incidents set to reach record volumes by year-end, according to Israeli cybersecurity specialist Naval Dome. Addressing port and terminal operators during an online forum last week, Robert Rizika, Naval Dome’s Boston-based Head of […]

  • Dutch government releases floating solar energy roadmap

    9 February 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Bas van ‘t Wout, has published a roadmap for floating solar energy, outlining the opportunities and risks associated with this growing industry in the Netherlands.

  • Scuttling of Wakashio’s bow progressing slowly as salvors battle rough sea conditions

    24 August 2020
    Vessels

    The sinking of the bow section of the broken up bulker Wakashio off Mauritius, launched on August 21, is progressing slowly but surely as weather conditions continue to hamper the operation. It usually takes around 24 hours for a vessel’s front section to be completely immersed, however, due to rough sea conditions the sinking had […]

  • USA: Army Corps Galveston District Hosts LSU Students

    24 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District’s Regional Environmental Specialist Janelle Stokes couldn’t have been more pleased when she learned she would be presenting an overview of the district’s beneficial use program to a group of visiting Louisiana State University students who are just as interested in dirt as she is, and on their way […]

  • Another crack at lawsuit against Shell board on the cards over ‘failing to move away from fossil fuels fast enough’

    22 May 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    After the lawsuit against Shell’s board of directors was thrown out of court recently, ClientEarth hopes to turn things around at a hearing.

  • In focus: ‘Hydrogen to go, please’

    11 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Transition

    Another week has gone by with (green) hydrogen filling our headlines, from new hydrogen carrier projects and hydrogen-powered vessels, to oil giants looking at hydrogen as the next best thing to invest into as they start adding new revenue drivers.

  • Study: Pollutant emissions in ports more than doubled during pandemic

    17 November 2021
    Market Outlooks, Ports & Logistics

    The pollutant emissions from the shipping sector increased significantly in major international seaports during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found.

  • Dredging on Morehead City Harbor to Begin Soon (USA)

    11 November 2010

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to begin in the next few days two dredge projects intended to help commercial marine traffic that has been impeded by shoaling in the channels. And one of those projects that is expected to begin Friday – deepening the Morehead City Harbor at the ocean bar – […]

  • Imtech Marine Target 2015: Doubling Revenue Up to 1 Billion Euro

    12 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      Imtech Marine (the marine division of technical services provider Imtech) announces its new 2011 – 2015 growth strategy. Imtech Marine targets to double its revenue up to 1 billion euro in 2015. Growth will be achieved by organic growth and by means of acquisitions. Eric van den Adel, Managing Director Imtech Marine: ‘Imtech provides […]

  • NQBP Introduces Abbot Point Dredging Details (Australia)

    4 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) has a long and respected history of successfully delivering dredging projects at its various ports. For over three decades NQBP has been undertaking dredging programs to ensure the safe navigation of ships and port efficiency. This highly regulated process has been undertaken without significant impacts with the material dredged […]