HOUSTON, March 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States announced today the receipt of several major dredging awards totaling $132.3 million. The awarded work includes: Coastal Storm Risk Management Rockaway Inlet Beach Fill Subcontract (Coastal Protection, New… Read More
Aiming to revolutionize the U.K.’s floating offshore wind (FLOW) sector, the University of Plymouth and Kongsberg Digital are joining forces. They plan to provide project teams and crew with facilities to verify, test and optimize installation and maintenance projects, using Kongsberg Digital simulator technology to provide a synthetic offshore wind environment in real-time. Key to… Read More
High tech asset and capacity will strengthen U.S. Gulf cold chains. Offers first-ever, 90 foot deep unloading dock, specially-designed for refrigerated commodities handling from trucks. El Segundo, California USA – Performance Team – A Maersk Company continues to integrate end-to-end cold chains with the announcement of a new cold storage facility in Houston designed to… Read More
Millions in supplemental funds from the federal infrastructure bill signed into law last November will be spent unclogging shoaled hot spots in a handful of North Carolina’s shallow-draft inlets, giving a reprieve to the local beach towns and counties that, along with the state, have been footing much of the bill for dredging projects. The… Read More
Looking to attract federal money, Louisiana will partner with two other states — Arkansas and Oklahoma — to form a regional hub in developing “clean hydrogen,” the Governor’s Office announced Thursday. The move comes after the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law dedicated $9.5 billion toward ramping up the use of hydrogen as fuel to cut carbon emissions… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — The town received only one bid to dredge the channel that leads to and from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission boat launching facility and readvertised for bids to open Monday, town manager Matt Zapp said March 8. Speaking during the board of commissioners’ monthly meeting in town hall and online via Zoom… Read More
The Army Corps of Engineering is likely to soon receive nearly $10 million in federal funding that will help the City of San Clemente address the ever-present issue of sand erosion and coastal decline. San Clemente’s Sand Replenishment Project for shoreline protection was one of many within the state’s 49th Congressional District that is expected to… Read More
VICKSBURG, Miss.— Researchers from five U.S. Army Corps of Engineer (USACE) Districts have been selected for the 2022 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Senior Biologist Sara Thames with the New Orleans District was chosen as a participant for this detail program, which is now in its seventh year. ERDC-U Program Lead Antisa… Read More
The Bangladeshi government has awarded a U.S. $71 million contract to a Chinese company to dredge rivers as part of a World Bank-financed project to boost transport routes between India and its northeastern states via Bangladesh, officials said Thursday. Finance Minister A.H.M. Mustafa Kamal and a cabinet committee on government purchases awarded the contract worth… Read More
This is the first in a special reporting series on federal infrastructure spending and North Carolina’s navigation needs. Millions in supplemental funds from the federal infrastructure bill signed into law last November will be spent unclogging shoaled hot spots in a handful of North Carolina’s shallow-draft inlets, giving a reprieve to the local beach towns… Read More