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Col. Kirk Gibbs assumed responsibilities as the 61st commander and District Engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District during a formal change of command ceremony held July 31 at the Community Center at Fort Mac Arthur in San Pedro, California. Brig. Gen. Mark Toy, commander of the Corps’South Pacific Division, placed… Read More
A new programs director and chief has been named for the Civil Works Integration Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Divisionand the Mississippi River Commission. Renee Turner will develop the federal budget and the fiscal year work plan for the division, which includes areas from the headwaters of the Mississippi River… Read More
The Baltimore District of the Army Corps of Engineers is welcoming a new commander. Col. Edward Chamberlayne took over Friday from Col J. Richard Jordan in a ceremony at Fort McHenry. Jordan served in the position for three years and is retiring. Chamberlayne most recently served as a U.S. Army War College fellow at the… Read More
The Belgian company DEME Environmental Contractors (DEC), member of the DEME Group and the Norwegian company Veidekke Entreprenør AS have established a joint venture and entered into a contract for remediation of the historic refinery site located at Valløy near Tønsberg (Norway), on behalf of Esso Norge AS, the company said in its press release…. Read More
Maintenance dredging of portions of the Federal navigation channel in Cohasset Harbor in Cohasset, Mass., will be completed under the terms of a $1,703,090.00 contract recently awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. Work will be accomplished by H2H Associates LLC, of Troy, N.Y. Dredging is scheduled to start on or… Read More
Ibn Battuta, one of seven CSDs Jan De Nul? Group deployed on the Suez Canal appears to be the first dredger that has reached the design 24 meter mark of depth on the Suez Canal’s 34.5-km stretch, the Group told IAA PortNews. Ibn Battuta is now busy doing its dredging work on the canal at… Read More
DSC Dredge, a Reserve, Louisiana-based manufacturer of dredgers was received the 2015 Lantern Award for the Bayou Region from Louisiana Economic Development. DSC received the Lantern Award for demonstrating excellence in manufacturing and outstanding service to the community through the involvement of its business and employees. DSC was honoured on June 16 during a private… Read More
Per Aarsleff A/S has just been informed that Frederikshavn Havn A/S, after an invitation to tender which involved four tenderers, expects to enter into a contract with Per Aarsleff A/S for the enlargement of the port, phase 1. The contract is expected to have a total value of DKK 500-600 million. The invitation to tender… Read More
Per Aarsleff A/S has entered into a contract with Region Gotland in Sweden for the execution of a cruise ship quay in Port of Visby on Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The project has an expected total value of DKK 125 million depending on the final design and is carried out as a partnering contract…. Read More
Henry “Hank” McDevitt of Clinton has been selected as the new deputy to the commander of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg. McDevitt, a Vicksburg native, has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Mississippi State University. He also served as an adviser to several U.S. agencies and military units…. Read More
An international consortium led by UAE-based National marine Dredging Company (NMDC) has completed the New Suez CanalProject in Egypt. The $1.5bn (EGP11.75bn) project was undertaken by the Challenge Consortium, an NMDC-led collaboration that also included Boskalis, Van Oord, and Jan de Nul. News of the completion was announced following a successful trial run of the… Read More
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a subsidiary of the state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), has proposed the construction of new facilities at Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port. According to an IHS Maritime 360 report, the CHEC proposal focuses on the construction of a new shipbuilding and repair dockyard. The proposal is part of the third… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will have a change of command this week in the Norfolk District. Col. Jason Kelly will take command from Col. Paul Olsen on Thursday morning, according to a news release. Olsen has been the district commander since March 2012. In the June 2015 Maritime Bulletin, Olsen said the district… Read More
Tianjin Dredging Company, part of the China Communication Construction Company (CCCC), has signed a contract that will see Wärtsilä supply the engines and all essential ancillaries for a new self-propelled cutter dredge that will be the world’s largest in terms of pump capacity. The 140 m long vessel will have a maximum dredging depth of… Read More
Sri Lanka is considering a proposal by China Harbour Engineering Company to construct a shipbuilding and repair dockyard at Hambantota Port on the south coast. A government spokesman, health minister Rajitha Senaratne, told reporters that the cabinet had approved CHEC’s plan to do a feasibility study for the project. CHEC had requested the government give… Read More