Continuing the series Offshore wind didn’t invent specialized subsea rock installation. It gave a 50-year-old offshore technology another major market. Van Oord’s Bravenes is a good example. The 154-meter DP3 vessel is designed to place rock with high precision around pipelines, cables, offshore structures, and wind foundations. Using a flexible fallpipe and ROV-controlled placement system,… Read More
Marinex Construction Inc., Charleston, South Carolina, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging and related construction services, including furnishing personnel, transportation, mobilization and demobilization, equipment and materials to remove up to five million, six hundred thousand cubic yards of maintenance material from an inner harbor. The amount of this action is $33,052,500 with a… Read More
Cottrell Contracting Corp.,* Chesapeake, Virginia, was awarded a $75,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for maintenance dredging services. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 11, 2031. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
TOLEDO, Ohio (WOWO) — The largest annual dredging operation on the Great Lakes is set to begin in Toledo Harbor next month, with crews expected to remove roughly 750,000 cubic yards of sediment from the Maumee River’s federal navigation channel. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Buffalo District and Michigan-based Ryba Marine Construction Company will… Read More
DP World (Dubai Ports), a state-owned company from the United Arab Emirates, is changing its course in Europe. Approximately three hundred jobs are expected to be lost, reports transport publication The Loadstar. The Antwerp branch of DP World confirms the news. It is unclear whether jobs will also be lost in Belgium. DP World is… Read More
