Container transloading capacity expected to jump by 400,000 TEUs annually. A $25 million provincial Port of Prince Rupert project investment will enhance exporters’ competitiveness and opportunities in international trade, the NDP government said Jan. 14. The funding is to support work by the Prince Rupert Port Authority to expand export logistics infrastructure at Ridley Island…. Read More
On 13 January 2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) published its final rule (Final Rule) reissuing and modifying certain nationwide permits (NWP).1 The Final Rule modifies and reauthorizes NWP 48, Commercial Shellfish Mariculture Activities, and creates two new NWPs: NWP 55, Seaweed Mariculture Activities, and NWP 56, Finfish Mariculture Activities. Our prior alert discussed… Read More
A recent market study published by FMI on the Dredging Market includes global industry analysis for 2015-2019 & opportunity assessment for 2020-2030, and delivers a comprehensive assessment of the most important market dynamics. After conducting thorough research on the historical and current growth parameters of the Dredging Market, the growth prospects of the market are obtained with… Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 13, 2021– Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) (the “Company”), a leading specialty construction company, today announced that its CFO Robert Tabb and VP of Investor Relations Francis Okoniewski, will present at NobleCon17, Noble Capital Markets’ Seventeenth Annual Investor Conference, on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 12:00 pm EST. The conference is virtual,… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Equipment for the soon-to-start Emerald Isle beach nourishment project should arrive by next week, with work scheduled to begin between Jan. 24-31. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said in an email Thursday the water-based equipment – submerged pipelines, tugboats and ancillary vessels – will arrive first at… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Equipment for the soon-to-start Emerald Isle beach nourishment project should arrive by next week, with work scheduled to begin between Jan. 24-31. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office, said in an email Thursday the water-based equipment – submerged pipelines, tugboats and ancillary vessels – will arrive first at… Read More
NEW BEDFORD – The US Environmental Protection Agency reported that the past several years have seen significant progress in addressing the polychlorinated biphenyl contamination in New Bedford Harbor. Recently, EPA’s cleanup work in the harbor achieved major milestones in the effort that will now result in the EPA transferring control of a 5-acre industrial port… Read More
Living in Geologic Time: How long will the cape keep its fist raised against the waves? Flexing into the Atlantic like a boxer’s raised fist, Cape Cod is one of the most distinctive landforms on Earth. The skinny, crooked peninsula was created by glaciers during the last ice age and sculpted into its present-day form… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed solution to preventing storm surge damage is simply much too weak, a fatal flaw in the system of protection afforded by a coastal spine. Ironically, the corps has taken the Ike Dike concept and made it so weak that it would be destroyed by an Ike-like storm and… Read More
The State Of The Industry In The Post-COVID-19 Era. By Mark S. Kuhar and Josephine Patterson The year 2020 will be remembered – and not exactly in a good way – for COVID-19, a crazy presidential election and economic turmoil not seen in decades. The aggregates and construction industries, fortunately, were not decimated by the… Read More