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Download PDF Version HOUSTON — Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) (the “Company”, “Orion”), a leading specialty construction company, today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025. Highlights for the quarter ended June 30, 2025: (Comparisons to second quarter of 2024) ($ in millions, except EPS) Revenue grew 7% to $205 million… Read More
Donjon Marine Co. Inc., Hillside, New Jersey, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to perform maintenance dredging of portions of the Newark Bay, New Jersey, Federal Navigation Project. The amount of this action is $53,624,500. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work will be performed in Newark Bay, New Jersey with an estimated… Read More
Fairhope’s city council is taking a stand on the continuing issue of dredging the Mobile Ship Channel. The Army Corps of Engineers is nearing an end to it’s deepening of the channel. But that doesn’t mean dredging itself will end. The Corps will continue to pull mud from the channel for routine maintenance now and… Read More
Now costing north of $40 million, the Back Bay restoration project would mitigate flooding and bring 47 acres of marsh terrace to the area in Virginia Beach. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Virginia Beach marsh restoration project aimed at not only bettering the environment but also protecting residents of Back Bay from flooding continues to… Read More
Spanning six segments and fourteen major construction packages, Project 11 represents a groundbreaking approach to large-scale infrastructure. Nearly 100% of the engineering-grade (non-silt) dredged material and more than 15 million cubic yards from the Galveston Bay portion was repurposed to create: • 10-acres of bird islands • 276-acres of intertidal marsh • 324-acres of oyster… Read More
Kongsberg Discovery has decided to start production of HUGIN, an autonomous underwater vehicle, in the US. This strategic decision reflects the commitment to supporting the growing demand for advanced subsea technology in the US market. Kongsberg Discovery is a global leader in advanced robotics and sensor technology, enabling the mapping, monitoring, and surveying of the… Read More
The U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) has taken a significant step to enhance America’s military sealift capabilities by awarding $6.2 billion in contracts to manage its Ready Reserve Force (RRF) fleet. The comprehensive agreement involves 20 contracts covering the management of 51 vessels, marking a major investment in national maritime security. The contracts, spanning a 10-year… Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Jones Walker LLP is pleased to welcome Chris Hannan as a partner in the Maritime Practice Group and a member of the maritime litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution team in the New Orleans office. “We are pleased to welcome Chris to our maritime practice group,” said the firm’s managing partner Bill Hines. “He has extensive experience across various… Read More
Partnership comprises world’s premier icebreaker shipbuilders: Bollinger Shipyards, Rauma Shipyards, Seaspan Shipyards and Aker Arctic Plan delivers fastest schedule, lowest risk, cost certainty, and a full transition to American shipyards MPI design exceeds all requirements and is production ready, allowing for delivery of the first vessel within 36 months of award Lockport, La. — Bollinger Shipyards (Bollinger),Rauma… Read More
Mark your calendars now! The WEDA Gulf Coast Chapter Board of Directors invites you back to New Orleans, Louisiana for this year’s fall conference! The chapter festivities will kick off with an evening social on October 29, 2025, followed by meetings and a luncheon on October 30, 2025. That’s right: you can laissez les bon temps rouler in the Big Easy AND get back to home base in… Read More
New York — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New York District, will host two virtual public information sessions to provide an update on the New York-New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study. These sessions precede the public release of the Draft Integrated Interim Response Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment (Draft Report), which… Read More
Register now for the 2025 Great Lakes Commission 70th Anniversary Annual Meeting, to be held October 28-30 at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center in Duluth, Minnesota. A St. Louis Estuary field tour on the Duluth River Train and “Ripples of Plastic” movie screening are planned for October 28, followed by the GLC’s Annual Meeting on October 29-30. Register by Friday, September 19,… Read More
The Future of Shipping is Here We are celebrating the 4th annual Houston International Maritime Conference hosted by Port Houston, the advocate for the number one port in the nation. Houston’s Port is the the busiest U.S. waterway, the #1 gateway for energy products, #1 in steel, and home to the #5 container port in… Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Jones Walker LLP is pleased to welcome Chris Hannan as a partner in the Maritime Practice Group and a member of the maritime litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution team in the New Orleans office. “We are pleased to welcome Chris to our maritime practice group,” said the firm’s managing partner Bill Hines. “He has extensive experience across various… Read More
Col. David Dake assumed command from Col. Rhett Blackmon as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District (SWG) commander during a change of command ceremony, July 29, 2025, at the district’s headquarters. On top of handing over command to Dake, Blackmon also celebrated his retirement from the Army after 26 years of service…. Read More
Longtime mariner and investigator Eric Stolzenberg has been named director of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Office of Marine Safety. The office investigates major marine accidents within the United States and its territories, as well as accidents involving U.S.-flagged vessels worldwide. Stolzenberg began his career at the NTSB in 2008 as an engineering investigator…. Read More
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District commander Col. Cullen Jones handed the reins to Col. Scotty Autin during a formal change of command ceremony at the district’s headquarters Friday, July 25, 2025. A native of Houma, La., Autin now serves as the 66th commander in the district’s more than… Read More
The 91-metre-long Marmac 306 barge was built in Louisiana by Norwegian cable company Nexans, and is now digging a trench for the subsea export cables which will transmit the electricity generated by Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project to the Brooklyn power grid. It is the very first vessel built in the US to undertake this… Read More
The Trump Administration is rescinding more than 3.5 million acres (1.4 million hectares) of Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) designated for offshore wind development on the US Outer Continental Shelf in yet another blow for the offshore wind industry. The decision was announced on Wednesday by the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Department… Read More
BOSTON — Officials in Massachusetts’ Nantucket island on Tuesday accused the developer of the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind project of not responding to their safety queries since Donald Trump’s election after a massive wind turbine broke apart last year and its fragments washed up on beaches. Nantucket’s select board gave Vineyard Wind two weeks to respond to… Read More
Offshore wind power could provide far more electricity than the U.S. uses for residential, commercial and industrial purposes. But the federal government has recently stopped approving offshore projects in the ocean. Another option is available, though: the Great Lakes, where we are based as water policy researchers, and where state agencies rather than federal officials are the trustees of the lakes…. Read More
Spanning six segments and fourteen major construction packages, Project 11 represents a groundbreaking approach to large-scale infrastructure. Nearly 100% of the engineering-grade (non-silt) dredged material and more than 15 million cubic yards from the Galveston Bay portion was repurposed to create: • 10-acres of bird islands • 276-acres of intertidal marsh • 324-acres of oyster… Read More
The EU will pay 15% tariffs and also buy hundreds of billions of dollars in energy products and military equipment from the US. The United States and the European Union have reached a wide-ranging trade agreement, ending a months-long standoff and averting a full-blown trade war just days before President Donald Trump’s deadline to impose steep… Read More
Approval Authorizes Cooperative Agreement and Marketing Strategy Development, Advancing Louisiana’s Statewide Port Vision NEW ORLEANS — At its regular board meeting on July 24, 2025, the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) approved a resolution authorizing a significant new step in regional collaboration among Louisiana’s ports. The resolution authorizes Port NOLA… Read More
Ports are crucial in international trade, serving as gateways for goods and commodities worldwide. Imagining which ports will lead the way in 2025 is fascinating as we look into the future. In this article, we’ll look at the top 10 busiest and biggest ports in the United States and explore what makes them stand out. Whether… Read More
Fairhope’s city council is taking a stand on the continuing issue of dredging the Mobile Ship Channel. The Army Corps of Engineers is nearing an end to it’s deepening of the channel. But that doesn’t mean dredging itself will end. The Corps will continue to pull mud from the channel for routine maintenance now and… Read More
Now costing north of $40 million, the Back Bay restoration project would mitigate flooding and bring 47 acres of marsh terrace to the area in Virginia Beach. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Virginia Beach marsh restoration project aimed at not only bettering the environment but also protecting residents of Back Bay from flooding continues to… Read More
The Trump administration moved its shipbuilding mission from the National Security Council to the White House Office of Management and Budget about three months after President Trump in April unveiled his “Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance” executive order. With the measure, Mr. Trump vowed to reinvigorate the country’s lagging shipbuilding industry and counter aggressive industrial moves… Read More
The marsh, which sits along Jamaica Bay, is now home to thriving native grasses and a growing population of sparrows, the birds for which the area is named. City officials from the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Design and Construction have completed a $7 million joint project that restored three acres of… Read More
Caterpillar Inc and Luck Stone, the USA’s largest family-owned and operated producer of crushed stone, sand and gravel, announced a significant milestone in their ongoing collaboration: 1 million tons autonomously hauled at Luck Stone’s Bull Run Quarry in Chantilly, Virginia. The achievement marks a first for Caterpillar in the aggregates industry and it says underscores… Read More
Carmeuse Americas acquired Crandell Brothers Trucking, a family-owned business that maintains sand and gravel operations around Lansing, Michigan. According to Carmeuse, Crandell has a fleet of 40 gravel trains that serve large industrial and commercial road projects, as well as smaller residential jobs. Additionally, Carmeuse says Crandell has a trucking service that complements its business. “We are… Read More
Capital Aggregates acquired two aggregate operations that strengthen its presence in Missouri and Arkansas. The company acquired the quarry operations of Richard J. Mertens, a Missouri-based business with two quarry sites in the St. Louis area. In a separate deal, Capital Aggregates acquired the sand and gravel operation of Dan Processing, which is located near Batesville… Read More
Chaney Enterprises relocated its corporate headquarters from Gambrills, Maryland, to a newly renovated four-story building in Annapolis. “This move isn’t just about a new building – it’s a testament to the strength and growth of our company and the incredible people who make it all possible,” says Francis Hall Chaney III, CEO of Chaney Enterprises. “We’ve built… Read More
Historic $25 billion investment in USCG includes $1 billion for additional FRCs LOCKPORT, La., — Bollinger Shipyards (“Bollinger”) announced today it has begun contract negotiations with the U.S. Coast Guard for the construction of at least 10 additional Fast Response Cutters (FRCs), supported by the historic $25 billion investment included in the recently enacted One Big… Read More
Ellicott Dredge Enterprises, LLC just delivered and commissioned a Mud Cat 40E electric remote-control dredge for a wastewater treatment facility in Alaska. Mud Cat® won the order through a competitive bid. The MC 40E removes the sludge in even layers using a horizontal auger cutterhead that creates an even bottom profile so the pond can… Read More
Headlines heralded the announcement this week of an order for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessel to be built at a Philadelphia shipyard, the first of its kind in the U.S. in almost 50 years. Hanwha Ocean and Hanwha Philly Shipyard, companies under a related corporate structure, will construct the ship under a joint-build model,… Read More
The contract aligns with the US government’s efforts to revitalize the domestic shipbuilding industry Hanwha Philly Shipyard has secured a 348 billion won ($250 million) order to build a liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier for Hanwha Shipping LLC, marking the first order by a US shipyard for an export-bound LNG vessel in nearly 50 years…. Read More
The National Maritime Safety Association (NMSA) today announced the transition of presidential leadership during its Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jason Winter, Director, Safety/Training, CFS & Labor Relations at the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), has been named the new President of NMSA, succeeding recent President Dave Morgan of Cooper/Ports America. Dave Morgan has served as… Read More
The Public Ferry Coalition applauds the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Ferry Caucus, welcomes this important step in raising awareness of the vital role ferries play in transportation FAIRFIELD, CA – Yesterday, Representative John Garamendi (CA-08), announced the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Ferry Caucus for the 119th Congress, alongside co-chairs Representatives Emily Randall (WA-06), Nick Begich… Read More
A long-discussed plan to dredge St. Thomas Harbor to make way for massive Oasis-class cruise ships is on hold, after the V.I. Port Authority did not receive any responses to an invitation to bid on the project. Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. mentioned the lack of bids during Tuesday’s press briefing. Bryan spoke remotely from Miami… Read More
Chris Gollon Starting on March 10th, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be beginning a dredging project off Volusia County, in tandem with the county government and the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND). The first stage of the project, which starts on March 10th, will entail the delivery and installation of a temporary dredge… Read More
Donjon Marine Co. Inc., Hillside, New Jersey, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to perform maintenance dredging of portions of the Newark Bay, New Jersey, Federal Navigation Project. The amount of this action is $53,624,500. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work will be performed in Newark Bay, New Jersey with an estimated… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking comments on a draft Environmental Assessment, or EA, for a proposed Johnson Island ecosystem restoration project in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, in Pool 6 of the Upper Mississippi River. The quantity and quality of backwater habitat has degraded due to shoreline… Read More
Col. David Dake assumed command from Col. Rhett Blackmon as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District (SWG) commander during a change of command ceremony, July 29, 2025, at the district’s headquarters. On top of handing over command to Dake, Blackmon also celebrated his retirement from the Army after 26 years of service…. Read More
The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Jacksonville is soliciting bids for a comprehensive shore protection project on Hutchinson Island in Martin County, Florida. The project involves constructing a dune and beach berm across two segments within approximately 4 miles of shoreline between reference points R-01 and R-25. Beach-compatible sand will be… Read More
Donjon Marine Co. Inc., Hillside, New Jersey, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to perform maintenance dredging of portions of the Newark Bay, New Jersey, Federal Navigation Project. The amount of this action is $53,624,500. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work will be performed in Newark Bay, New Jersey with an estimated… Read More
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking comments on a draft Environmental Assessment, or EA, for a proposed Johnson Island ecosystem restoration project in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, in Pool 6 of the Upper Mississippi River. The quantity and quality of backwater habitat has degraded due to shoreline… Read More
Col. David Dake assumed command from Col. Rhett Blackmon as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District (SWG) commander during a change of command ceremony, July 29, 2025, at the district’s headquarters. On top of handing over command to Dake, Blackmon also celebrated his retirement from the Army after 26 years of service…. Read More
The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Jacksonville is soliciting bids for a comprehensive shore protection project on Hutchinson Island in Martin County, Florida. The project involves constructing a dune and beach berm across two segments within approximately 4 miles of shoreline between reference points R-01 and R-25. Beach-compatible sand will be… Read More
The National Maritime Safety Association (NMSA) today announced the transition of presidential leadership during its Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jason Winter, Director, Safety/Training, CFS & Labor Relations at the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), has been named the new President of NMSA, succeeding recent President Dave Morgan of Cooper/Ports America. Dave Morgan has served as… Read More
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The Public Ferry Coalition applauds the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Ferry Caucus, welcomes this important step in raising awareness of the vital role ferries play in transportation FAIRFIELD, CA – Yesterday, Representative John Garamendi (CA-08), announced the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Ferry Caucus for the 119th Congress, alongside co-chairs Representatives Emily Randall (WA-06), Nick Begich… Read More
