A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Transatlantic Afghanistan District employee has been named the top engineer for the entire Transatlantic Division. Thomas “Clark” Carroll, a project engineer at the Qargha Project Office within TAA’s Kabul Area Office, has been chosen as the recipient of TAD’s Hard Hat of the Year for his work in… Read More
The Bird Island Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration project in Buzzards Bay, Marion, Mass, will be completed under the terms of a US$3,120,000.00 contract recently awarded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. The project is partnered by the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game, with the Commonwealth contributing 35 per cent of the… Read More
Wärtsilä Corporation, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., and GoodFuels Marine have cooperated to launch a sustainable marine biofuels program, the companies announced Wednesday in an emailed statement. Netherlands-based GoodFuels Marine will reportedly lead the two year project, aiming to create “truly sustainable, scalable and affordable” marine biofuels. “We believe that the international shipping market is now… Read More
The China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) will co-finance and build a deepwater port in São Tomé and Príncipe, the São Tomé government said Monday in São Tomé. The government statement signed by the Minister of the Presidency, Afonso Varela, said “CHEC intends to apply at least US$120 million” in this project, which has an estimated… Read More
A U.S.-Belgian Dredging Coalition has won an international tender to dredge a new 9.5 kilometer-long shipping lane in East Port Said to facilitate international trade maritime navigation, officials from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said. The SCA announced in July that it would contract with the six international dredging companies tasked to dredge the new… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD – Snapshot Report) has been awarded three dredging contracts along the Delaware River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The combined value of these projects is around $99 million. The projects will provide deep draft vessels access to the Philadelphia port facilities. The first project, worth around… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a contract in the amount of $6,521,000 to Weeks Marine Inc. for maintenance dredging of the Brazos Island Harbor (BIH) Jetty and Entrance channels in South Texas. The contractor is required to remove approximately 651,000 cubic yards of sandy material using a pipeline dredge to clear… Read More
THE PETERS family says diversifying their marine services has seen their second generation sea-towage company ride the wave of a fluctuating resources industry. Having survived the corporate raiding days of the 1980s and re-emerged to profit during the resources boom, Pacific Tug, which was founded by three brothers at Victoria Point, east of Brisbane, in… Read More
Dutch-Spanish co-operation between Damen Dredging Equipment (DDE) and Bilbao-based Astilleros de Murueta shipyard has seen the first dredger for the Chambre de Commerce d’Industrie de Bayonne Pays Basque delivered successfully after extensive trials. The 1,200 m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Hondarra – meaning ‘sand’ in Basque – will work in the French port of… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, awarded a contract in the amount of $4,848,500 to Weeks Marine Inc. for maintenance dredging of the Houston Ship Channel from Exxon to Carpenters Bayou in Harris County, Texas. The contractor will be required to remove approximately 600,000 cubic yards of maintenance material using a pipeline dredge. … Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation GLDD , the largest provider of dredging services in the U.S. and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, has received a contract in Texas in association with Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC CCL Great Lakes Dredge & Dock’s part of the LNG project involves the dredging and slope protection of… Read More
The Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) has registered a 66% increase in profit after tax to Rs 62.40 crore during the 2014-15 fiscal as compared to Rs 37.54 crore in 2013-14. This was despite a lower total income of Rs 743.79 crore for the fiscal as compared to Rs 772.70 crore for 2013-14 According to… Read More
The Pentagon says Weeks Marine Inc., of Covington, Louisiana, has won a $6.5 million contract for maintenance dredging in Texas. It was one of two bidders for the Army Corps of Engineers contract for the Brazos Island Harbor jetty channel and an option for Brazos Island Harbor entrance channel. The estimated completion date is Feb…. Read More
On the order of the Van Oord – Boskalis joint venture, one of Van Oord’s largest trailing suction hopper dredgers, Vox Máxima, has started the dredging work for the creation of Pluit City, an artificial island in the bay of Jakarta, Indonesia. The growth of Jakarta’s population by 800,000 people per year has resulted in… Read More
The Netherlands’ Royal IHC has launched the 1,840m3 capacity twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredger’ Mahury’ at partner shipyard MTG Dolphin Shipyard in Varna, Bulgaria. The vessel is being built for Baggerbedrijf de Boer (Dutch Dredging) and is that company’s fourth IHC-built vessel, following Albatros, Lesse and Amazone. Mahury is an upgraded version of the Albatros,… Read More