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The Department of Defense and U.S. Navy awarded a contract on September 4th to Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) for design and engineering work of the Navy’s Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV), the future large-size unmanned surface vessels, able to operate without crew on board. FMM and five other companies will receive nearly $7 million each… Read More
Newport Beach is getting a hot commodity for its shore: sand. While some beach towns, especially in south Orange County, grapple with how to keep sand on their sections of coast, Newport Beach will be getting heaps to add between the West Newport rock jetties and on both sides of the Balboa Pier. An estimated… Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 28, 2020– Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) a leading specialty construction company, today announced a contract award of approximately $16 million. The Company’s Marine segment has been awarded a competitively bid contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to provide dredging services in Galveston, Texas. The project calls for the dredging… Read More
Beach replenishment projects continue at the Jersey Shore, with another round slated to begin soon in northern Monmouth County. The project involves the periodic nourishment of beaches in Long Branch, Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. The work, announced by U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., will begin next… Read More
OAK BROOK, Ill., Sept. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States announced today the receipt of a $105 million Base and Option B contract award on the Jacksonville Harbor Construction Dredging, 47-Foot Contract C Cut-42 Project. Great Lakes expects the… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard has exercised a contract option, worth just over $222 million, for production of four more Sentinel-class fast response cutters (FRCs) and associated deliverables with Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, Louisiana. This option brings the total number of FRCs under contract with Bollinger to 60 and the total value of the contract to… Read More
An aerial view of high water within the Massillon levee system in April 2019. Damaging rain over the last few years has prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a levee upgrade and repair project that is expected to start in mid-November. MASSILLON The heavy lifting as part of the effort to upgrade… Read More
Colonna’s Shipyard Inc., Norfolk, Va., has been awarded an $8,555,702 Military Sealift Command contract for a 90-calendar day shipyard availability for the mid-term availability of the cable laying, repair ship USNS Zeus (T-ARC 7). Work will include the furnishing of general services, structural repairs, ships service diesel generator repair and maintenance, switchboard cleaning, ship’s whistle… Read More
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District has awarded a contract to Weeks Marine, Inc. for $11.1 million to conduct the periodic nourishment of the Bethany & South Bethany Coastal Storm Risk Management project in Delaware. Work is the result of a partnership between the Army Corps’ Philadelphia District and the Delaware… Read More
BATON ROUGE, LA – The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has been awarded $15 million for research, data collection, and implementation of its Adaptive Management program to increase effectiveness and flexibility when implementing coastal projects under the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of… Read More
This past week J.E. McAmis was awarded two more jetty projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District. J.E. McAmis jetty crews will commence work on the Lake Worth Inlet, North Jetty in Palm Beach County, and work on the Port Everglades South Jetty in Broward County early in 2021 with completion of… Read More
Dredging of Bigfoot Slough area of Pamlico Sound is tentatively scheduled for next week, once inclement weather caused by the remnants of Hurricane Sally clears the region. Once the The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dredging effort is complete, the state Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division will be able to resume its full schedule between… Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District, in collaboration and agreement with its local, state and federal partners, plans to operate the Muddy Bayou Control Structure to lower the elevation of Eagle Lake, located approximately 10 miles north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to near 73 feet by early to mid-October. USACE… Read More
Volunteers team up to tidy the Lake Superior shoreline. MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – You know the lyrics “clean up, clean up. everybody everywhere?” That is exactly what happened today at Marquette’s Clark Lambros Beach Park, as volunteers of all ages came together to pick up litter and plant beach grass along Lake Superior. Great lakes… Read More
DETROIT — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will remove more than 130,000 cubic yards of material, including contaminated sediment and debris, from Howards Bay in Superior, Wisconsin beginning this fall. The removal is part of a maintenance dredging contract the Corps’ Detroit District awarded to La Crosse, Wisconsin-based, J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. “Dredging in… Read More