Jan. 18—The long-awaited $25 million Portland Harbor dredging project starts on Monday as contractors begin digging a 9-acre pit in a shallow South Portland cove where seven decades of a working ...

The cruise ship Zuiderdam is berthed at the Ocean Gateway terminal on Friday, July 4, 2025. The ship, a Holland America vessel, is 935 feet long, has 11 passenger decks and can hold 2,364 passengers.

It’s long overdue and taken years to begin, but the dredging of Portland Harbor will finally move forward this winter, with the construction of a “confined aquatic disposal" cell — basically a deep ...

The captain of the ill-fated cargo ship that sank in a hurricane off the Bahamas with no survivors last week was an experienced and highly trusted mariner who had spent a lifetime on the water, ...