The Eastern Chapter of WEDA represents Bermuda, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida (East Coast) Georgia (Eastern), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, DC, West Virginia, Virgin Islands and Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Canada. 2022 WEDA Eastern Chapter Annual Meeting | Register | View… Read More
Dare County, in partnership with EJE Dredging Service, will host a christening ceremony and community day in Wanchese on Thursday, October 13, 2022, to honor Miss Katie, the new 156-foot-long shallow-draft hopper dredge. Miss Katie—which is the result of a yearslong collaboration between Dare County officials and EJE Dredging Service, who owns the dredge—departed from… Read More
Port & Terminal Technology USA has established itself as a must-attend key industry event. Its huge success over the last eleven years is attributed to overwhelming positive feedback from attendees and the event’s ever-growing list of returning exhibitors. As such, MCI Media Limited is delighted to announce that the 12th Conference & Exhibition will take… Read More
The organisers of the World Hydrogen Summit & Exhibition, the world’s largest Hydrogen event dedicated to global hydrogen advancement, have announced its return to Rotterdam in May 2023. To meet the surging demand, the event will double in size. The organisers Sustainable Energy Council (SEC) along with the Port of Rotterdam, the City of Rotterdam… Read More
Meeting Highlights : -Meeting is well on track for record attendance, industry leading speakers and informative papers. -USACE District representation is high and a large room reserved for the popular Lunch with the USACE on Wed. -Exhibitors are signing up and planning to show case products and services. -Excellent regional participation w/ NY State government… Read More
Three industry experts from Kongsberg Maritime will be exhibiting at the American Society of Civil Engineers Ports ’22 Conference in Honolulu Hawaii. The conference runs from September 18-21, 2022. Samantha Bruce, Technical Sales Manager for Kongsberg Underwater Technology, will cover single beam and multibeam systems for shallow survey and infrastructure inspection. Mark Atherton, author of Echoes and… Read More
Brainstorming: How to systematically increase beneficial use? What are the hurdles to BU that can be overcome? What systematic needs/activities can be identified for future action? How do environmental windows impact BU and what about other lakes besides Lake Michigan? (update from Tom Crane).
Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) will be hosting a press conference on Friday August 19, 2022, at 3 p.m. at the Dare County Administration Building to announce new legislation pertaining to Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. Rep. Murphy will be joined by Dare County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bob Woodard and Dare County Commissioner Jim Tobin,… Read More
Save our Shorelines: Saco Bay announces its first annual conference on Coastal Erosion at Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center in Saco on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The conference will focus on what organizers describe as the dual threats of climate change and coastal erosion. Coastal Erosion is a naturally occurring process, but at Camp Ellis… Read More
Story and photos by Judith Powers The 2022 Western Dredging Association Annual Dredging Summit and Expo broke all attendance and exhibitor records in its 43-year history. With 780 attendees and 90 guests, visiting more than 150 exhibition booths, the event was a harbinger of a robust North American dredging industry able to handle a future… Read More
In recognition of his extensive and outstanding contributions to the dredging community and to the Western Dredging Association, Andrew A. Timmis has been named the 2022 Dredger of the Year at the WEDA Summit & Expo held in Houston, Texas. Working for many years in the frontlines of environmental dredging, when Mr. Timmis joined WEDA in 2004,… Read More
Each year at its annual Summit & Expo, the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Safety Commission takes pride in presenting awards acknowledging projects and companies that demonstrate outstanding safety awareness. This year two Safety Excellence Awards were presented: Excellence for a Dredging Project and Excellence for a Dredging Contractor. The winners were announced at the WEDA… Read More
Over 150 maritime industry influencers gathered in New Orleans, La., last month to discuss alternative fuels and paths to decarbonization. Hosted by Maritime Partners, the event focused on the Hydrogen One project and methanol-to-hydrogen reforming technology. The vessel is set to join the fleet of Maritime Partners and become available for charter in 2023 to meet the… Read More
More than 30 maritime tech startups from around the world are displaying their solutions and platforms at this year’s Posidonia Exhibition, which is underway at Athens’ Metropolitan Expo Centre until Friday. The founders and CEOs of several of them shared their views and opinions at the TradeWinds Shipowners Forum, which opened the Posidonia conference agenda with… Read More
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) will hold its annual Dredging Summit & Expo July 25–28 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Houston, Texas. The Dredging Summit & Expo ’22 is a technical conference organized by WEDA to promote the exchange of knowledge in fields related to dredging, navigation, marine engineering and construction. It will provide… Read More