HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 22, 2021– Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) (the “Company”) a leading specialty construction company, today announced contract awards totaling approximately $35 million. The Company’s Marine segment has been awarded four contracts valued at a combined $35 million to perform marine and infrastructure construction work in the gulf coast, as well as in… Read More
Projects focusing on coastal habitat resilience and regulations eying species restoration offer hope for fisheries despite climate change. Waves, inland runoff and a record tidal surge from Hurricane Florence in September 2018 battered the Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point, whose northern perimeter borders the Neuse River southeast of New Bern. To reinforce the… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Emerald Isle commissioners Tuesday night voted 5-0 to authorize town manager Matt Zapp to send the federal government a letter of intent to apply for grant funds to cover a multi-million-dollar flood prevention project. The vote came during the board’s monthly session in the meeting room on Highway 58 and virtually via GoToWebinar…. Read More
The Port of Portland’s long-idled container terminal is starting to see new signs of a comeback, five years after it lost its last container service. Portland’s port is located on the Columbia River, about 100 river miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. It maintains a busy ro/ro terminal and it is an important hub for bulk grain… Read More
CARTERET – The borough has taken another step forward with plans for a ferry terminal, following the recent approval of a long-awaited state Department of Environmental Protection watershed dredging permit. “This is one of the final steps and approvals Carteret needs to construct the ferry terminal our community has desired and fought for,” Mayor Dan… Read More
To save one of the last wetlands on the French Riviera from rising sea levels, conservationists have taken the unusual step of removing its protective seawalls. Instead, they have let nature take its course. The Vieux-Salins d’Hyeres salt marshes sit just below sea level with a stretch of vital but shifting sand beach that separates… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces the completion of its EUR 100 million share buyback program. During the program, a total number of 4,742,928 shares were repurchased at an average price of EUR 21.08 per share. The program commenced on 18 March 2019 and was completed on 15 September 2021 including a temporary suspension in 2020 due to… Read More
EMERALD ISLE —Town commissioners Tuesday night will consider a staff proposal to apply for federal Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities funds for a major stormwater management improvement project. The monthly session of the board of commissioners will begin at 6 p.m. in the meeting room beside the police department and online. According to the meeting… Read More
Construction begins this month on a nearly 300-foot-long seawall to protect the coastal bluffs below the heavily travelled railroad tracks in Del Mar. The seawall just south of Fourth Street is the final stage of $11 million in emergency repairs needed to safeguard the tracks after a wide portion of the bluff collapsed in late… Read More
Despite its relatively small size, the Caribbean island nation of Barbados boasts an expansive exclusive economic zone—the waters over which the country has jurisdiction—equivalent to roughly 424 times its territory. The economy of the Caribbean’s most easterly nation, independent since 1966, has become increasingly diverse: Its marine resources create jobs from tourism to fisheries and… Read More