Norfolk Dredging Co. was awarded an $11,613,200 firm-fixed-price federal contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia, for maintenance dredging at the Delaware River. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
Orion Marine Group Inc (ORN) Discloses Insider Transaction. Mark R. Stauffer , CEO of Orion Marine Group Inc purchased 1,750 shares on Aug 25, 2015. The Insider buying transaction was disclosed on Aug 26, 2015 to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The shares were purchased at $6.65 per share for a total value of $11,637.50…. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $617,000 contract to U.S. Site Work, from Elk River, Minn., to unload dredged material in Wabasha. Work is expected to begin within the next month. The contractor will move nearly 150,000 cubic yards of dredged material from the Corps of Engineers’ Wabasha Gravel Pit via truck… Read More
The Defense Department awarded work to several Hampton Roads defense contractors in August that included a major submarine overhaul, ship repairs and dredging. Topping the list was a $57.8 million contract awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding for maintenance and upgrades to the USS Columbus, a Los Angeles-class submarine. The contract includes options that, if exercised,… Read More
The Finnish dredging equipment manufacturer and sales company Wasa Dredging will present both existing and new models when coming to Neva 2015. The Equipment and Sales branch of the dredging entrepreneur will present the new backhoe dredgers series “BHD 48000” and “BHD 28000” as well as the previous “BHD 18000” and “BHD 12000”, the Company… Read More
Orion Marine Group Inc (NYSE:ORN) has lost 1.9% during the past week and dropped 0.14% in the last 4 weeks. The shares have underperformed the S&P 500 by 2.79% during the past week but Orion Marine Group Inc (NYSE:ORN) has outperformed the index in 4 weeks by 5.63%. Orion Marine Group, Inc has dropped 7.43%… Read More
A consortium formed by CMA CGM, Bolloré and CHEC won the bid, initiated by the Cameroon government, for the Kribi terminal concession for a period of 25 years. Following the bidding procedure initiated by the Cameroonian government, the consortium formed by French companies CMA CGM and Bolloré as well as Chinese company CHEC (China Harbour… Read More
Growing up in Racine along the shores of Lake Michigan, Brig. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser probably never envisioned he one day would have a say in the management of most of the Midwest’s principal waterways. But that’s where Kaiser’s career as civil engineer and career officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has brought him…. Read More
Announcement Of Unaudited Interim Results For The Six Months Ended 30 June 2015 Interim Results The board of directors of China Dredging Environment Protection Holdings Limited announces the unaudited consolidated interim results of the Company and its subsidiaries (the “Group”) for the six months ended 30 June 2015, together with the unaudited comparative figures for the six months… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (NASDAQ:GLDD) Director Nathan Leight acquired 19,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, August 24th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of $5.28 per share, for a total transaction of $100,320.00. Following the completion of the acquisition, the director now directly owns 251,313 shares… Read More
A hefty fine issued to a company which admitted illegal dumping off the coast of Cornwall does not go far enough, environmental campaigners have said. Westminster Dredging Ltd was ordered to pay a total of more than £43,500, including costs, when it appealed at Plymouth Magistrates Court over its activities in Whitsand Bay. The company… Read More
Portland Harbour in Dorset has joined forces with contractor Jan De Nul in a bid to win work for the up to 970MW Navitus Bay offshore wind farm near the Isle of Wight. The partners will under a memorandum of understanding, and if selected, construct gravity base foundations for Eneco and EDF’s Round 3 project… Read More
Onezhsky Shipyard plans to build dredging equipment to the order of FSUE Rosmorport. This issue was discussed at the meeting of the first deputy head of Karelia Oleg Gromov with the representatives of Rosmorport and Wasa Dredging (Finland), says press center of the Republic of Karelia. Wasa Dredging works as a marine offshore and inland… Read More
A new cutter suction dredger (CSD), designated JDN8069, is being built by Uljanik Brodogradiliste shipyard in Pula, Croatia, for Jan De Nul Group. It is expected to be the world’s biggest cutter suction dredger, when operational in 2017. Jan De Nul Group awarded a contract to Uljanik shipyard for the large self-propelled CSD JDN8069 in… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) has reported a net profit of $338.8m in the first half of 2015, a rise of 21% compared to the same period a year earlier when it posted a $279.6m profit. Revenues in the first half of the year rose 1.6% to $1.73bn compared to H1 2014 of $1.71bn. Results in all… Read More