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Lizi Stewart joins the consultant after 15 years at Arcadis. Atkins has named Arcadis executive Lizi Stewart as the head of its UK and European transportation division. Stewart joins the SNC-Lavalin Group-owned consultant on 1 February after working for Arcadis for 15 years. Latterly the managing director of Arcadis’ highways and aviation arm, she also… Read More
The Houston City Council and Harris County Commissioners met Monday to choose a new chair for the Port of Houston Authority, but they couldn’t come to a consensus. The meeting was filled with confusion over procedure and arguments over the way votes should be taken. Ultimately, it came down to two candidates: Ric Campo, chairman… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster from the Netherlands has been awarded a contract for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm project in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, UK. Boskalis will do the transportation and installation of wind turbine foundations, the offshore substation and cables, for Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL), a subsidiary of Red… Read More
There is no question of closure of state-owned Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) as three major ports, including Visakhapatnam Port, plan to pick up government stake in the company, Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said. “At the department level, we have taken a decision. The three major ports are now ready to acquire DCI. We have… Read More
UK-based marine survey company Gardline, which became part of Boskalis in 2017, has appointed a new chief executive. The company has announced the appointment of Christiaan Vermeijden as chief executive officer, effective immediately. He will replace interim chief executive, Gerben Eggink. Mr Vermeijden said, “I am honoured to become chief executive of Gardline, a company… Read More
The Midstream Oil and Gas Congress (MOCG) 2019 is dedicated to Oil and Gas Transportation via pipelines. As a matter of fact, with more and more offshore undertakings for the extraction of oil and gas, there is a growing demand for a special kind of equipment that can handle both the aggressive environments found in… Read More
Royal IHC has secured a contract from Belgium-based DEME for the design and build of four new vessels. The order consists of a copy of the recently delivered 8,400m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) SCHELDT RIVER, a 2,300m3 TSHD, and two 3,500m3 split barges. The SCHELDT RIVER was delivered in 2017 and due to its… Read More
Arcadis has announced a partnership with Kiewit Infrastructure West and PERC Water to provide design and engineering services for the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project (SWIP) in the City of Santa Monica, US. The SWIP project is expected to take Santa Monica closer to becoming water self-sufficient, ensuring sustainable water supply and reducing the costs of… Read More
Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group has signed a 25 year concession agreement with the Ecuadorian Municipality of Guayaquil for deepening and maintenance of the 95 km long access channel to the port of Guayaquil. Under the agreement, Jan De Nul will finance the capital dredging works to deepen the existing access channel, guaranteeing a new… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) is awarded the first contractby the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a $326M project to deepen and widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in Texas. GLDD says it won a $93M contract award for the project and expects to begin dredging to deepen the entrance channel during Q2… Read More
Netherlands based shipbuilder Royal IHC has launched the world’s largest self propelled cutter suction dredger from its yard in Krimpen aan den IJssel. The 165m long Spartacus is the first cutter suction dredger to be powered by LNG. Its four Wartsila main engines can also run on MDO and HFO. The two Wartsila auxiliary engines… Read More
Expansions to their range include safety markers, wave breakers, debris barriers and pipe floaters. All these products are made of LDPE or HDPE, providing both versatility and robustness in service. The pipe floaters have been used for dredging operations, including sand extraction, and are available at specifications between 600ltr/63kg and 1000ltr/86kg. Pipe diameters can range… Read More
Town officials in Wellfleet are beginning to focus on the possibility of tackling the long awaited dredging of Wellfleet Harbor without federal support. The Army Corps of Engineers once again left the project off its 2019 operation and maintenance work plan. “I would say this is the second year that we really thought we had… Read More
Dredging Corp Deal is expected to happen in January. What the deal is about and how will it benefit government? To know this watch the report. Source: Zee Business
Fifteen miles out on the water south of Biloxi, Mississippi, below a cloudless sky, a foaming torrent of gray-black slurry gushes into a ship. Every three seconds, another truckload’s worth of salt water and sand, siphoned from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, pours into the Ellis Island’s vast, open cargo hold, called a… Read More