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Weeks Marine and Eastern Shipbuilding Group (Eastern) announced they have signed a contract to construct a sister ship to Weeks Marine’s TSHD MAGDALEN, the twin screw trailing suction hopper dredge built by Eastern and placed into service in 2018. The new vessel will be constructed at Eastern’s Allanton Panama City, Florida facility. The contract to… Read More
Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, LLC yesterday delivered an articulated tug-barge (ATB) unit capable of transporting multiple clean petroleum products in the Alaska market to Crowley Fuels LLC – the Alaska-based petroleum transportation, distribution and sales unit of Crowley Maritime Corporation. The ATB is the first in Crowley’s fleet to be dedicated to the Alaska market. The… Read More
As the nation’s environmental engineer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages one of the largest federal environmental missions – constructing sustainable facilities; regulating waterways; managing natural resources; cleaning up contaminated sites from past military activities; and restoring degraded ecosystems. Through the implementation of 33 ecosystem restoration and protection projects totaling over 4,200 acres and… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public input this afternoon on whether to continue allowing commercial dredging along the Missouri River. Commercial dredging is a process companies use to collect sand and gravel from rivers and then use those materials for concrete, asphalt and masonry products. Six companies, including Holliday Sand & Gravel… Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) (the “Company”), a leading specialty construction company, today announced that it will issue its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020 on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, after the close of the stock market. ORN’s management will conduct a conference call on Thursday, April 30, 2020… Read More
In Lowestoft, UK, Associated British Ports has announced an agreement with Suffolk County Council (SCC) in relation to Lake Lothing Third Crossing. This agreement addresses ABP’s concerns about the impacts on port operations and marine safety, of the project to build a long campaigned for new bridge to deal with Lowestoft’s major choke point. As… Read More
SEATTLE – The Port of Seattle Commission approved a contract to enable the Port to reach its 2030 goal to reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent, almost a decade early. This long-sought major milestone, voted on at the Commission meeting on April 14, 2020 (Agenda item 8a), results from an authorization for a 10-year supply… Read More
MASSENA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has modified a plan to address sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the Grasse River Superfund Site. This calls for removal, instead of capping, of an additional 90,000 cubic yards of sediment from an area of the river near Snug Harbor to accommodate a new tugboat…. Read More
A regulatory saga that for several years has plagued a major container terminal project proposed by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) is showing no signs of abating, and a final decision by the Canadian federal government has been delayed until November in light of the circumstances surrounding COVID-19. Not only are there substantial environmental… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — After a delay of a couple days for refueling and waiting out stormy weather and high seas, the hopper dredge Ellis Island got to work Thursday morning on the home stretch of the $28.2 million Bogue Banks beach nourishment project. Carteret County Shore Protection Office Manager Greg Rudolph said the vessel did… Read More