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Expanding the Panama Canal On Time and Under Budget

Completed in 1914, the project was the most ambitious undertaking by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its time. Today, the $5.25 billion upgrade is in the works.
19 August 2011 - 1:00pm
The New York Times
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Hauling By Barge is Back

The Manchester Ship Canal has gone underused for shipping goods for decades, but is now having a resurgence with the realization that barge freight can greatly reduce carbon emissions.
18 August 2011 - 1:00pm
CNN

Clean-Fuel Zone Widened Per Navy's Request

Known for its puritanical environmental laws, California's shipping pollution standards just got tougher. The California Air Resource Board voted unanimously to expand the 2009 clean-fuel zone, which mandates ships to use less-polluting fuels.
27 June 2011 - 9:00am
The Los Angeles Times
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Shipping Containers As Building Blocks

Shipping containers are increasingly being used as a readymade, eco-friendly building material. WebUrbanist highlights a handful of such structures, vernacular or professionally designed.
7 March 2011 - 1:00pm
WebUrbanist

Hybrid Batteries for Boats and Ferries in the Works

Hybrid technology for marine transportation is a growing industry, as startup business in New Brunswick, Canada attests.
17 January 2011 - 1:00pm
New Brunswick Business Journal

Proposed Port Threatens Flood-Prone Venice

Plans to construct a new cargo port near Venice has some conservationists up in arms. They say the plans would exacerbate rising water levels and further endanger the flood-prone ancient city.
13 September 2009 - 11:00am
The Guardian
Ian Sacs

Just-In-Time For Hybrid-Electric Shipping?

Wed, 04/15/2009 - 11:15

An article posted last week by the Guardian and highlighted yesterday by Treehugger.com cites recent studies as well as data from maritime industry sources that the combination of quantity and quality of low-grade bunker fuel used in the massive engines of freight vessels may result in more emissions than all the cars in the world!  I don’t mean to wax sensationalist here, this is what is stated in the article.  If the truth is anywhere near the statement, then the idea of

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Boston's Other Big Dig

For the last ten years, the Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the bottom of Boston Harbor in an effort to make more room for larger cargo ships. Dredging is almost complete on the project.
27 October 2008 - 9:00am
The Boston Globe

History Trumps Art on San Francisco Waterfront

Over the past few years, San Francisco's waterfront has become home to art pieces like an enormous, cartoony bow and arrow and a giant spider. Labor historians have a different idea: A five-story crane built in the early 1970s for loading coconuts.
27 September 2008 - 7:00am
San Francisco Chronicle

Cargo Trams in Amsterdam

City Cargo of Amsterdam has developed a fleet of non-polluting vehicles to deliver cargo via the city's unused streetcar tracks. Their aim is to cut the number of trucks going into the city by 50%.
25 September 2008 - 11:00am
Treehugger

Gulfport Making No Small Plans Either

Gulfport, Mississippi lays plans to be the home of America's largest container port facility.
16 September 2008 - 10:00am
Sun Herald

Manitoba Boosts 'Inland Port' Plan

The government of Manitoba hopes to take advantage of Winnipeg's location near the geographic centre of North America to build an "inland port" to funnel imports through the continent on improved highways and rail links.
13 September 2008 - 5:00am
Winnipeg Free Press

Shipping Sickness

The enormous traffic in imported goods is generating a huge amount of disease-causing pollution in and around ports, and along trade routes.
6 September 2008 - 11:00am
AlterNet

A Big Idea: Solar-Powered Cargo Ships

Toyota has hired two firms to build solar panels to augment the diesel engines on their car-carrying behemoths. The result will be a cut in CO2 emissions of 1 to 2 percent per year, or about 20 tons.
4 September 2008 - 7:00am
Wired

Ice Melts Open Shipping Passages

For the first time in recorded history, the Northwest and the Northeast passages are free enough of ice to be navigable. Shipping companies welcome this effect of global climate change.
1 September 2008 - 11:00am
Der Spiegel

Goldman Sachs Sees Gold in Humboldt, CA

Humboldt's port shows promise, but would require massive investment. Goldman Sachs expresses an interest, surprising locals.
2 June 2008 - 11:00am
Times-Standard, Northern California

Environmental Groups Warm to Trains

Railroads are overcoming decades of resistance from environmentalists by touting their greener aspects.
30 May 2008 - 12:00pm
Wall St. Journal

Putin Plans to Propose Russia-U.S. Tunnel

Former Russian president Vladimir Putin has announced his intentions to propose that Russia and the United States move forward with plans from the early 20th century to build a 64-mile tunnel between the two countries.
1 April 2008 - 10:00am
The Times (UK)

New Roads, Old Danger

A ring road covering more than 1,500 miles in Afghanistan has eased shipping in the country, but traveling along the new pavement is still dangerous.
19 March 2008 - 5:00am
NPR

Grand Canal Proposed in South Korea

South Korea's new president has proposed the engineering and construction of a huge cross-country canal -- a plan he hopes will revive much of the country's depressed villages and offer an attractive venue for tourists and shipping companies.
13 March 2008 - 6:00am
The New York Times
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