UAE-based port operator Abu Dhabi Ports, part of ADQ, has acquired MICCO Logistics, a local freight forwarder, becoming a fully integrated supply chain logistics provider. MICCO will be integrated into Abu Dhabi Ports Logistics, the group’s logistics arm. With this move, Abu Dhabi Ports Logistics leverages MICCO’s experience and capabilities as the emirate’s first provider… Read More
Environmentalists have stepped up alarms about a major fuel export terminal in South Jersey that they say will accelerate Pennsylvania fracking, worsen climate change, and attract 100-car trains carrying dangerous liquefied natural gas across Philadelphia. A plan to build the Gibbstown Logistics Center in Gloucester County, N.J., just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia International… Read More
Norfolk, VA, Sept. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nancy Grden, associate vice president of Old Dominion University’s Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, has been named the initial executive director of the newly formed Hampton Roads Maritime Collaborative for Growth & Innovation (HRMC), which aims to expand the role of maritime in the region’s economic development…. Read More
BARNSTABLE – The Barnstable County Dredge season has begun its 25th season. The program experienced impediments over the past three years to its schedule due to several breakdowns of one of its dredges. This year, the coronavirus pandemic also impacted the end of the winter schedule. “With a fully staffed crew, and both dredges operational,… Read More
By Carrie Gentile – Staff Writer DredgeWire Over 160 stakeholders virtually attended the Great Lakes Dredging Team’s information web seminar last week with much of the focus on beneficial uses of dredged materials. Dave Knight of the Commission Great Lakes Dredging Team (GLDT), Thomas Crane, deputy director of the Great Lakes Commission and Karen G…. Read More
The start of the deepening project in the Lower Mississippi River is big news for river commerce. It will bring the working depths of the LMR up to par with depths in the recently deepened and expanded Panama Canal and Suez Canal. By allowing bigger vessels, including those able to transit the expanded Panama Canal,… Read More
BOSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized the designation of a disposal site for dredged material off the coast of southern Maine and New Hampshire to serve the southern Maine, New Hampshire, and northern Massachusetts coastal region. This designation, published in the Federal Register on September 25, 2020, will provide a new,… Read More
And how it could get even better. The U.S. offshore wind sector entered 2020 in a nervous mood — agonizingly close to becoming the next big renewables market, but not there yet. The sudden delay of Vineyard Wind’s 800-megawatt project off Massachusetts last year has left the industry in limbo. Rarely in the energy business… Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 28, 2020– Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) a leading specialty construction company, today announced a contract award of approximately $16 million. The Company’s Marine segment has been awarded a competitively bid contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to provide dredging services in Galveston, Texas. The project calls for the dredging… Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 28, 2020– Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) a leading specialty construction company, today announced a contract award of approximately $16 million. The Company’s Marine segment has been awarded a competitively bid contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to provide dredging services in Galveston, Texas. The project calls for the dredging… Read More