Waterways

This summer, OpenIJ – a consortium of construction companies building the IJmuiden lock – will deliver the largest sea lock in the world to Rijkswaterstaat.

The Charleston Harbor is on track to have the deepest port on the east coast and harbor some of the world’s largest ships.

In October 1887, the steamer Vernon set sail from Michigan toward Chicago with about 50 people on board. Likely overloaded with cargo, she never made it.

For the second year in a row Lake Erie should experience a mild harmful algal bloom, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Levels of brown tide algae recorded from Sayville to Bellport are highest since 2017 and are harmful to marine life, scientists say.

SAYVILLE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — It has become an annual sight off Long Island and it’s not getting any better. Scientists say the waters are seeing one of the most intense brown tide algae blooms in years, CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported Tuesday.

Remko Vermeer, one of the former seafarers employed in the continuous shift service at DTN, is more than familiar with weather information and weather routing from experience.

Nearly 30 years after ExxonMobil agreed to pay $900 million to help restore resources damaged by the company’s disastrous 1989 Prince William Sound oil spill, more money remains than was once expected, and there are plenty of ideas as to what should be done with it.

The fast ferries MV Fairweather and MV Chenega were towed in Ketchikan today to be loaded onto a massive submergible freighter, where they will be transported to Spain for ferry service between Spain and Ibiza.

Over the last 30 years, urbanization has increased along the Indian River Lagoon, which stretches about 250 kilometers on Florida's east coast. As a result, water quality has deteriorated and there is widespread loss of seagrasses and persistent harmful algal blooms, which threaten ecological, human and marine animal health, such as manatees

The word “no” appears to be absent from the Suwannee River Water Management District’s vocabulary.

Corpus Christi (Nueces County) — In the 16 months since Phillips 66 and Trafigura Group pte. Ltd. announced the formation of a joint venture to build an offshore deepwater port near Corpus Christi Bay the stakeholders have kept busy meeting the demands of a federal permitting process that includes an extensive inquiry into the environmental impacts.

Climate change is disrupting the environmental balance of the Arctic with potential global ramifications. Arctic states are jostling for control of shipping lanes, natural resources and strategic advantage as polar ice retreats.

Industrialization and population growth in the Istanbul region is being blamed for a slimy outbreak of marine mucilage, threatening sea life in the Marmara Sea.

Nearly 100 carcasses of turtles with throat and shell damage, as well as a dozen dead dolphins and a blue whale, have washed ashore in Sri Lanka since a container ship burnt and sank, raising fears of a severe marine disaster.

Colombo, Jun 20 (PTI) The United Nations on Sunday said the Singapore-flagged cargo vessel, which caught fire off the coast of Colombo last month, has caused "significant damage to the planet by the release of hazardous substances", as the world body announced a team of experts to determine the full extent of the disaster and necessary follow-up action.

John Nephew thought he had a winner with a new tabletop game called Dice Miner. Importing the games from China turned out to be its own roll of the dice.

Ahead of the fifth anniversary of its expansion, the Panama Canal Authority announced it has increased the maximum allowable length for vessels transiting the Neopanamax Locks.

Officials split on whether 'gray zone' intimidation or rogue vessels

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock pleads guilty to Clean Water Act violations

Barring a dramatic change of events, western Lake Erie's algal bloom is likely to be smaller and milder in 2021 than it has been in recent years.

Adur & Worthing Councils are set to become the first local authorities in the UK to lease the seabed off their coast from the Queen in a pioneering project to invest in climate change measures and restore marine habitat.

In honor of World Oceans Day, House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) reintroduced legislation aimed at addressing the ocean impacts of climate change and reforming federal ocean management to better account for climate mitigation.

California is asking the appeals court to make the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers alter the way it dredges two crucial channels in the San Francisco Bay to comply with state water quality standards.

Container shortages have placed a heavy strain on agricultural exporters, leaving them without access to international markets and no guarantee that their product will be delivered on time, explains House chair of the subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., during Tuesday’s hearing titled, “Impacts of Shipping Container Shortages, Delays, and Increased Demand on the North American Supply Chain.”