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DredgeWire has applied for business membership in BPA Worldwide. The eNewsletter is published by Industrial Digital Media (Middletown, DE). BPA Worldwide will track Dredgewire’s eNewsletter distribution. DredgeWire will have 12 months to complete its initial audit. “The strong growth of DredgeWire has made it a perfect time to apply for membership with BPA Worldwide,” said Edwin… Read More
A joint venture comprised of DEME and Royal Boskalis Westminster have been awarded a 5-year contract for the capital and maintenance dredging of the Martín García channel. The channel is located between Uruguay and Argentina in the northern part of the 50-km-wide Rio de la Plata estuary. The contract awarded by the Comision Administradora del… Read More
The agitation by the employees of the public sector Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) here against the proposed 100 per cent strategic sale of equity has intensified, after an employee of the corporation reportedly ended his life in Vizianagaram district on Monday evening. A day after the reported suicide by N Venkatesh (29) working in… Read More
With four months to go for completion of current fiscal of 2017-18, Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) crossed its previous year’s cargo handling throughput. VPT in the past eight months achieved 61.02 million tonnes (MT) as against previous fiscal’s 61.02MT as there’s been a significant growth in all types of cargo. Despite sluggish business during the… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (the “Company” or “Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, today announced that Kathleen M. Shanahan and Ronald R. Steger have been appointed to the Board of Directors’ 2018 and 2019 director classes, respectively,… Read More
On 1 December 2016, Maersk Line announced its intention to acquire Hamburg Süd. The acquisition triggered a regulatory approval process in 23 jurisdictions which was successfully concluded on Tuesday 28 November with the approval of the acquisition by the Korea Fair Trade Commission. “With the final approval of the acquisition we have reached an important… Read More
Van Oord has been awarded a DPC Innovation Award for its innovative and sustainable approach to a land reclamation project in the Maldives. During the award ceremony in London, Van Oord won the award in the ‘Innovation in Project Design – Open Water/ Coastal Dredging’ category, the company said in its press release. Van Oord… Read More
Prepared by members of its new Dredging Management Commission (DMC), the Central Dredging Association – CEDA – has published a new paper entitled “CEDA’s checklist for successful dredging management”. The document is a generic but comprehensive list to help identify and avoid problems with dredging projects at an early project stage, and should benefit all… Read More
Cleanup work to remove hazardous substances from Victoria Harbour in British Columbia is scheduled to begin shortly with the announcement early this month by Transport Canada that a clean-up contract had been awarded to Milestone Environmental Contracting Limited. Under the $5,344,000 contract, Milestone will remove hazardous chemicals in sediments from Victoria’s Middle Harbour sea bed…. Read More
Dewberry has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mobile District to support a flood risk management feasibility study that aims to quantify flood risks and related flooding issues associated with the Sweetwater Creek Watershed, and to identify potential projects to reduce flood risks. The Sweetwater Creek basin, located in portions of… Read More
In line with the strategic direction announced in September 2016 A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S has made significant progress in focusing the future business on container shipping, ports and logistics. To further accelerate the development of customer oriented end-to-end transportation and logistics solutions the Board of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S today announces that it… Read More
Around 15-20 non-executive employees of the Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) have started a relay fast at Sea Horse Junction near the port entrance on Tuesday. They are protesting against the government’s move towards privatising the public sector organisation. The Union Finance ministry’s Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) has recently appointed a… Read More
Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) said its non-executive workers’ union has threatened to launch an indefinite strike on or after December 6, 2017 to protest against its sale. Opposing the divestment plan, company workers, including shore-based executives, had gone on a mass leave on November 21 at Vishakhapatnam. The government, on November 1, approved sale… Read More
One of the things that struck me putting together the 2017 Industry Leaders supplement to OSJ, which will be published shortly, is the growing importance of Dutch and – to a lesser extent – Belgian owners. With the exception of Vroon Offshore, Dutch companies are not well known as owners of offshore support vessels, but… Read More
President Donald Trump recently appointed Maj. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser as the president of the Mississippi River Commission and Col. Paul E. Owen as a member of the commission. Commission appointments are nominated by the President of the U.S. and vetted by the U.S. Senate. Kaiser is the commander and division engineer of the Mississippi… Read More