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A dredging company is suing the U.S. government, alleging breach of contract and negligence. Weeks Marine Inc. filed a lawsuit Dec. 12 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas against the United States of America, acting in the name of its agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, alleging the government failed… Read More
A new CEO took the helm of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation on Wednesday January 4, Mark Marinko. The exec is also the company’s current CFO. News was first seen on the Benzinga Pro real-time newswire around 5:54 p.m. ET. The executive change was later confirmed by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock via a… Read More
The Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) has awarded a contract for the reinforcement of the Houtrib Dyke in Holland to a joint venture between two major dredging companies, Boskalis and Van Oord. The contract is reported to be valued at €90 million with this amount shared equally between the two… Read More
Toxic dredging has cost Soldiers Point Marina operator $220,000. Coming as something of a shock to the marina industry, the operator of award-winning Soldiers Point Marina at Port Stephens has been ordered to pay $220,000 in fines and clean-up costs. The NSW Environment Protection Authority took action for illegal dredging which apparently disturbed toxic sediment…. Read More
The New Bourbon Regional Port Authority board conducted a meeting in December after all, though last week’s meeting at the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning Commission in Perryville addressed a limited agenda to consider bids for two projects. The board awarded Magruder Construction Company the contract for harbor dredging of 75,000 cubic yards of material. And… Read More
Sime Darby Bhd, which owns and operates Weifang Port in Shandong Province, announced that its indirect subsidiary Weifang Binhai Haiwei Dredging Project Co Ltd (WBHDP) has ceased operations. In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, the conglomerate said WBHDP, whose activities were dredging of embankment projects, excavation, dredging and maintenance of ports and channels, fencing and… Read More
The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, announced today that Ryan Levenson has been appointed to the Board of Directors, effective December 27, 2016. Mr. Levenson has… Read More
Açu Petróleo S.A., a joint venture company of Prumo Logística S.A. and Oiltanking Gmbh, has awarded the contract for the expansion of the Porto do Açu Oil Transhipment Terminal in Rio de Janeiro State. The expansion comprises the deepening, widening and extension of the access channel and turning basin. In total, approximately 32 million cubic… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, a provider of dredging services, said late Tuesday that it has selected Lasse Petterson as CEO and appointed him to the company’s board of directors. Petterson will join the board immediately and assume the role of CEO once his application for U.S. citizenship, as required by the Jones Act, is… Read More
Inix Technologies Holdings Bhd said it is trying to shift away from its loss-making IT solutions business, reshaping the company to focus on its diversification into dredging and land reclamation instead, according to executive director Mohd Anuar Mohd Hanadzlah. “We are moving away from our core business, but we will still maintain the IT business… Read More
At the request of Baltimore USACE Navigational Branch Chief, Mr. Graham McAllister, Ellicott Dredges hosted a facility tour and brief presentation of their various capabilities. The tour included a walk-through of the Engineering Department and overview of the advanced engineering and design tools used by their multi-disciplined engineering staff. There was also a dredge training… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District awarded a task order for the Multiple Award Task Order Contract Rapid Response contract in the amount of $1,190,520 to Manson Construction Co., for the dredging of the Matagorda Ship Channel, entrance channel, in Matagorda County, Texas. The contractor is required to remove approximately 186,000 cubic yards… Read More
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) recently finished the 2016 dredging season, having removed more than 1 million cubic yards (apprx. 765,000 m3) of dredged material from state park lakes and other state properties. The State’s dredge fleet consists primarily of Ellicott Model 460SL swinging ladder dredges. The 1 million cubic yards of sediment… Read More
The Europe District of the US Army Corps of Engineers has been supporting the US Army, the Air Force, foreign governments and other agencies with a range of engineering, construction, stability operations, and environmental management services and products. The organisation has a more than 50-year history and is headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany. The deal sees… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract for the first phase of a $2.1 billion Red River diversion project around Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota. Sens. John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota say the $46 million deal with Burnsville, Minnesota-based Ames Construction will include construction of an inlet southwest of Fargo…. Read More