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Despite what’s expected to be a record high level this summer for Lake Michigan, the outer harbor in St. Joseph will be dredged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with the work expected to start next month. During this week’s city commission meeting, St. Joseph City Manager John Hodgson said they’ve asked the Corps… Read More
Chinese shipbuilder Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering has won an order to build liquefied petroleum tankers for Germany’s Hartmann Group. The contract includes the construction of three 5000 cubic meter LPG ships and additional order for two vessels. CIMC SOE, which is a unit of CIMC ENRIC, claims that the vessels will be the… Read More
Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Oregon, has been awarded a $20,880,790 firm, fixed-price contract (N32205-20-C-4005) for an 87-calendar day shipyard availability for the overhaul drydocking availability of the USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200). The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $22,186,509. Work will be performed in Portland, Oregon, and will… Read More
IHC America announces that it has been awarded the contract to build a Water Injection Dredge for the North Carolina State Ports Authority. The dredge will perform maintenance in the main seaports of Wilmington and Morehead City for maintaining the depth of the ports by moving sediment from the main channel and allowing the natural… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to conduct Grays Harbor maintenance dredging in the Outer Harbor beginning April 29 with the Corps hopper dredge vessel Essayons. There are many crab pots in the South Beach Disposal Site and the Army Corps of Engineers is asking fishermen and crabbers to move their equipment to avoid… Read More
GRAND HAVEN, MI – Grand Haven beach-goers will be able to enjoy twice as much beach this summer after the completion of a beach nourishment project funded by the federal government. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to replenish sand along the beach of Grand Haven State Park next month after finishing an annual… Read More
Weeks Marine and Eastern Shipbuilding Group (Eastern) announced they have signed a contract to construct a sister ship to Weeks Marine’s TSHD MAGDALEN, the twin screw trailing suction hopper dredge built by Eastern and placed into service in 2018. The new vessel will be constructed at Eastern’s Allanton Panama City, Florida facility. The contract to… Read More
Published April 22, 2020 Expiration date: 5/22/2020 The applicant, New Jersey Department of Transportation – Office of Maritime Resources, has requested Department of the Army authorization to perform ten (10)-year maintenance dredging of three (3) channels within Barnegat Bay, identified as the Berkeley Shores State Channel Complex: Berkeley Shores North Channel, Berkeley Shores Channel, and… Read More
MASSENA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has modified a plan to address sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the Grasse River Superfund Site. This calls for removal, instead of capping, of an additional 90,000 cubic yards of sediment from an area of the river near Snug Harbor to accommodate a new tugboat…. Read More
Textron Inc., New Orleans, La., has been awarded a $386,280,994 contract modification covering the construction of 15 Ship to Shore Connector landing craft, air cushion (LCAC) vessels. The award is for Craft 109 through 123. Textron delivered Craft 100, the first of the next-generation Shore Connector (SSC) air cushion landing craft to the U.S. Navy… Read More
SAVANNAH, Ga. – Work to clean up former Camp Croft near Spartanburg, South Carolina, will begin soon following the April 1 signing of a contract between the Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and a joint venture of Weston Solutions, Inc., of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, and Zapata Inc., of Charlotte, North Carolina. The $36.5… Read More
U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded boatbuilder United States Marine Inc., Gulfport, Miss., a $108,000,000 maximum indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity delivery order contract (H92405-20-D-0002) with a five-year ordering period for the production of Combatant Craft Assault. Fiscal 2020 procurement funds in the amount of $12,000,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The work will be performed… Read More
STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com A $12.7 million contract to dredge sand from Big Pass and spread it along Lido Key Beach was awarded to Cottrell Contracting Corporation. The project entails dredging and spreading about 710,000 cubic yards of sand on the highly-eroded south Lido Key Beach from the southern tip of the island… Read More
Longer blades, taller towers, more powerful turbines: wind energy seems to be past the peak of innovation now, improving incrementally rather than with breakthrough. And yet none other than an oil company has ventured into a new field with massive potential: floating offshore wind. The Norwegian petroleum ministry earlier this month approved a plan by… Read More
The Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) has awarded a contract worth about US $195m to Swedish construction and development company Skanska to rehabilitate the Benjamin Franklin Bridge that connects Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, US. Under the contract, Skanska will be responsible for the rehabilitation of a suspension bridge about over 1,100m from anchorage… Read More