The proposed USD600 million Savannah harbour deepening has ran in to more trouble. Deepening the Savannah River to accommodate large cargo vessels could risk contaminating the city’s drinking water - unless somebody pays USD40 million for a solution.

Cimbria Bulk Equipment has delivered 2 Moduflex loading chutes type S300 in stainless steel to Magyar Cukor Zrt, which is part of Agrana. The chutes will be used for loading sugar into tankers and wagons and are equipped with food grade modules and configured for ATEX zones.

Greek shipping line, Tiger Lines, will start calling at the New Container Terminal-1 (NCT-1) at the Subic Bay Freeport in the Philippines starting the second quarter of this year. Tiger Lines will deploy a 750-TEU to 1,000-TEU capacity vessel for its planned bi-weekly service plying Subic, Singapore and Malaysia.  The bi-weekly service is also a common feeder service, co-loading containers serviced by other shipping lines such as NYK, OOCL, Hapag Lloyd, Maersk and Evergreen. In operation for almost 40 years, Tiger Lines is a joint venture company of Avin International S.A. and Zeniba Shipping. 

The New York District of the US Army Corps of Engineers proposes to perform maintenance dredging in the Buttermilk Channel Federal Navigation Project, with subsequent placement of the dredged material at a suitable contractor-furnished, state-permitted upland placement site(s).

UK-based George Hammond Plc has secured a new service from Seatrade with the backing of the Port of Dover. The port, in providing a degree of organisational flexibility, has ensured that Hammond can concentrate on winning new business - confident that it has the port's co-operation. George Hammond Plc, which provides fresh produce stevedoring and marine services from its base at the Port of Dover has enjoyed good growth from its three weekly services in 2010 in terms of pallet volumes discharged and containers handled and this success looks set to continue in 2011 with the addition of a new service from Seatrade.