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Partrac were contracted by Angus Council in the spring of 2015 to evaluate the use of dredge material to trickle recharge the beach at Montrose, North East Scotland. To assess the efficacy of the proposed scheme, a study was conducted to map the sediment transport pathway(s) of a small volume of dredge material (sand) following… Read More
Acting also on behalf of the Dutch Nature Preservation Society (Natuurmonumenten), Rijkswaterstaat has awarded Van Oord the contract for dredging an extra channel to the south of Marker Wadden. Dredging the channel will create more space for the underwater capture of silt. It will contribute to restoring the environmental and water quality of the Markermeer… Read More
Instituto Nacional de Vías de Colombia (Invías) awarded to European Dredging Company the $2,1 million contract for maintenance dredging of Tumaco Port. Lloreda Camacho & Co advised on the transaction. Tumaco is a port city and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia, by the Pacific Ocean. It is located on the southwestern corner of Colombia… Read More
Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) today announced a contract award of approximately $18 million. The Company’s Marine segment was recently awarded a contract from the Port of Corpus Christi for the design, construction and dredging of a new cement unloading dock to be located on the Corpus Christi ship channel. The project is expected… Read More
The Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a new commander. Daniel H. Hibner is coming from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida where he served as a branch chief. Hibner has 25 years of experience with the Army. He spent some of his time working for the Army Corps of Engineers… Read More
The Board of the Pacific Chapter of WEDA invites submission of abstracts for a technical presentation or poster at their Fall 2018 conference in Honolulu, HI. New to the 2018 conference is an additional half day of conference proceedings to provide attendees more presentation time slots. There will also be a poster session and additional marketing opportunities… Read More
The Mobile District of the Army Corps of Engineers has completed some of their dredging and the portion of the Mobile River north of the Grain Elevator up to Three Mile Creek turning basin has been dredged sufficiently to allow vessels with 40 feet of draft. For details of further restrictions, check with the bar… Read More
Measutronics and HYPACK will be presenting a practical multibeam survey course which will include on water training in Vancouver, Washington, June 11-15. This course will cover hardware installation, calibration, data acquisition, and post processing using HYPACK/HYSWEEP and PPK Tides in Trimble Business Center (TBC). An overview of POSPac MMS will also be presented. Seating is… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that Maj. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon has assumed his new duties as the Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations at its headquarters. As the DCG-CEO, Spellmon will be responsible for the nationwide USACE Civil Works program which includes water resource development activities such as flood… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that 72.1% percent of the shareholders will receive a dividend in the form of ordinary shares. As a result, 3,990,974 shares will be distributed as stock dividend. For the stock dividend, Boskalis will issue 2,026,444 new ordinary shares. The remaining 1,964,530 shares were repurchased last year through the share… Read More
Ted Smith is the kind of guy who, if he finds a fork in the road, he takes it. In other words, when opportunity knocks, he opens the door. Silly puns aside, Smith has made a career out of making the right decisions at the right time. His latest? To retire and dismantle his 20-year… Read More
A month after the Union Cabinet approved the proposal for the sale of the entire equity of the government in the Dredging Corporation of India, an employee committed suicide throwing himself before a train. Though the incident caused severe resentment among the 500-odd employees, they continued their peaceful struggle and worked hard to prove their… Read More
On 9 May 2018 the dividend of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) for the financial year 2017 has been determined at EUR 1.00 per ordinary share. This dividend shall be distributed in the form of ordinary shares, unless a shareholder opts to receive the dividend payment in the form of cash. With the dividend distribution… Read More
KfW IPEX-Bank is financing the reinforcement of the Afsluitdijk Project in the Netherlands in cooperation with four other commercial banks and the European Investment Bank (EIB). Within the framework of a complex PPP financing structure, the banks are together providing borrowed funds of around EUR 815 million for the major project. KfW IPEX-Bank is making… Read More
With the company already onsite working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Iron County Board of Supervisors awarded the contract for its share of the Saxon Harbor marina’s dredging to Roen Salvage Tuesday. The company — based in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. — was awarded the $2,779,533 contract to dredge approximately 21,100 cubic yards… Read More