Paving the way for construction, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) awarded the third and largest expansion contract Tuesday to dredge the Pacific sea entrance. The ACP kicked off this next phase of expansion awarding the contract to Dredging International.
The dredging of the Pacific sea entrance is essential to provide enough draft and width for longer, wider ships to pass and enter the new locks.

E.ON, one of the UK’s leading power and gas companies, has submitted a planning application to build a £700 million offshore wind facility off the East Yorkshire coast – despite objections from the Ministry of Defence.

This policy, which revises the earlier guidelines, states that the ports may ensure that pre-qualification criteria are fixed in advance and that they should not be so stringent as to restrict entry of certain potential Indian bidders.

One of Europe’s largest construction vessels enters Welsh waters next week to work on npower renewables’ Rhyl Flats Offshore Wind Farm.

Foss Maritime Company announced today that it has agreed to sell selected assets, including two tugs and twenty barges currently operating on the Columbia Snake River system, to Vancouver, WA-based Tidewater Barge Lines.