Australia’s Port of Brisbane has welcomed its first 8500 TEU class container vessel into the port, the Maersk Lloyd Don Carlos.

Spain’s Doñana wetland received a reprieve today when authorities committed not to allow dredging of a river essential to the World Heritage site’s health. In a report to UNESCO, the country stated that a plan to deepen the Guadalquivir River to allow larger commercial ships will not be authorized.

A Chinese vessel has been anchored off the coastline of Barangay Bakhaw Norte in Kalibo, Aklan since November 22.

Dredging has begun in the Cuyahoga River shipping channel for the first time in more than a year.

Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) has won a contract from Oiltankaing jv Açu Petróleo for the expansion of the Porto do Açu oil transhipment terminal in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.

CAPE CHARLES, Va. (Delmarva Now) -- Of 59 Eastern Shore of Virginia waterways studied, 22 are in need of immediate maintenance — and more than one third of channels in the waterways have sections with no more than three feet of depth at mean low water, according to a recently completed report.

After a month-long detour and mechanical problems earlier this month, the dredging crew for a long-awaited project to excavate the Napa River now has less than two weeks to finish the job.

A pair of unrelated dredging projects in Manistique will increase ship navigability in the city’s inner harbor and remove contaminated sediments from sections of the Manistique River.

The state is pushing federal environmental officials to take nearly five times more PCB samples from the Hudson River than now planned in order to learn whether a $1 billion cleanup by General Electric Co. has worked.