Dredging giant COO Simonelli

GLDD books contracts worth $261.3 million

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States yesterday reported that it had received several major dredging awards, worth a total $261.3

Ferries on heavy lift ship

Damen electric road ferries are on their way to Ontario

What will be first fully-electric road ferries to operate in North America have departed the Damen Galati shipyard in Romania. Ordered by the Ministry of Transportation, Ontario, Canada, the 68 meter long

GLDD has taken delivery of two Multi Cats

GLDD wins $138.9 million USACE contract

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC (NYSE: GLDD), Houston, Texas, has been awarded a $138,951,462 firm-fixed-price contract for dredging of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. Bids were solicited via the internet

Barges alongside

Crosby Tugs backs green barge transportation start-up

Galliano, La., based Crosby Tugs reports that it has invested in green shipping start-up Float Freight, a sustainability-focused barge transportation company that harnesses the industry’s latest technology to provide carbon-neutral inland marine

New York on 9/;;

20 years later: NY Waterways looks back at rescue efforts on 9/11

As people gathered on the New York Harbor waterfront in Manhattan to remember and honor the victims of the 9/11 attack on its 20th anniversary, many vessels from the “Great Boatlift” rescue

all-electric tug

PODCAST: Crowley and ABB on first U.S. E-tug

In this edition of Listen Up!, join Marine Log’s editor in chief, Heather Ervin, as ABB Marine & Ports’ David Lee and Crowley’s Coulston “Cole” Van Gundy, director-commercial operations, discuss the 82-foot

Navy and Coast Guard officers plan Hurricane Ida response strategy

USCG continues to support post-Ida recovery efforts

Hurricane Ida left a trail of submerged and grounded vessels behind it and the Coast Guard reports that it continues to respond to impacts to waterways and to assess the environmental threats

ILA president

ILA president: “We won’t work autonomous box ships”

The president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, Harold J. Daggett, says he has a message to any shipping companies planning to utilize autonomous containerships without crew: “Don’t sail them into ILA ports

Dredge on lakeMississippi River

Rock Island Engineer District announces Mississippi main channel closure

As of September 7, the Rock Island Engineer District, has temporarily closed the main channel of the Mississippi River at Mile 425.7 in Pool 18 near Keithsburg, Ill., to move dredged material

COTP head shot

USCG lifts Lower Mississippi “daylight only” deep-draft vessel restriction

The Coast Guard captain-of-the-port, New Orleans, Capt. Will Watson, has lifted daylight transit only restrictions for deep-draft vessels operating south of Mile 203 on the Lower Mississippi River. The change was announced

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