ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, selected Tom Novak as one of its three Civil Servants of the Year for 2019. The St. Paul District presents this award annually to the top three or four employees of its nearly 700-person staff. Novak, recently retired with more than 31… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, selected Paul Machajewski as one of its three Civil Servants of the Year for 2019. The St. Paul District presents this award annually to the top three or four employees of its nearly 700-person staff. Machajewski, with 30 years of service with… Read More
Members of the International Salvage Union (ISU) have stated their desire to maintain a service as usual status during the current global Coronavirus outbreak. Shipping is by nature a global business, trade routes taking in virtually any combination of countries and of course crews on board ships nowadays will often consist of a wide range… Read More
Newcastle MP Tim Crakanthorp has urged the state government to allow sand dredged from the Hunter River for the construction of the proposed Newcastle Gas Terminal project to be redirected to Stockton Beach. Final approval for the $589 million project, whcih has already been declared a state significant development, is expected by the end of… Read More
Rockport Terminals LLC reports that its private port at Aransas Pass, near Corpus Christi, Texas, processed and transloaded over 60,000 tons of bulk liquid and pipeline pipe in Nov/Dec 2019—the first bulk product moved through the facility in 12 years. The Aransas Pass property was previously owned by Nilok Chemicals, which closed and dismantled the… Read More
PINE KNOLL SHORES — The Ellis Island, the largest hopper dredge in the United States, is scheduled to join the Bogue Banks beach nourishment project Thursday, and the smaller dredge, the Liberty Island, might stay on the job in an effort to hasten completion. Greg Rudolph, manager of the Carteret County Shore Protection office in… Read More
The Outer Banks Voice is co-publishing this story with the Coastal Review Online The flashy Elizabethan-style sailing vessel Elizabeth II will be sitting pretty at its dock in Manteo for at least another season without maintenance. But a long-delayed dredging project that will free up the state-owned wooden ship finally looks likely to start in… Read More
By Paula Gardner | PaulaGardner@mlive.com High Great Lakes water continues to be an issue for Michigan, even as the state mobilizes around fighting Coronavirus. The situation puts county emergency management staff who work along state shorelines in the difficult situation of managing one crisis while keeping an eye open for the potential for another. So… Read More
I don’t have to remind anyone of the catastrophic coastal erosion our area has been hit with over the years with 30+ homes and hundreds of feet of beach being lost to the ocean. This man-made crisis, caused by the Saco River Jetty by the Army Corps of Engineers, needs to be permanently addressed once… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) will be postponed to 30 June 2020. In view of the recent developments surrounding the COVID-19 (corona) virus and Boskalis’ concern for the health of its shareholders, management, supervisory board members and employees, the AGM that was to be held on… Read More