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Great Lakes Dredge scoops up Matteson for $45 million

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the U.S has acquired the assets of L.W. Matteson, Inc., a maintenance dredging, environmental dredging and levee construction

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Drydocks World books FPSO conversion order

Drydocks World Dubai has been awarded a $13 million FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) conversion contract by BW Offshore. The vessel involved, the BW Carmen, which has been renamed BW Athena,

Vinashin woes have ripple effect

Developing shipbuilding countries hoping to be “the next Korea,” or “the next China,” might consider the woes of troubled Vietnamese shipbuilder Vinashin — and their impact on the rest of the Vietnamese

OSX Brasil buys Vela VLCC’s for FPSO conversion

OSX Brasil S.A., the offshore services unit of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista’s EMX empire, continues to forge ahead with its operations. Among recent developments have been a $54 million agreement to buy

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Survey sees crew costs set to rise

Vessel operating costs are expected to rise by 3.2 percent this year and by 3.5 percent in 2011, Crew costs are the category most likely to produce the highest levels of increase.

WSF takes experts’ advice, up to a point

Though Washington State Ferries (WSF) says it will work to implement a majority of 36 recommendations made by an independent expert panel to improve ferry operations, it is not rushing to deal

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Splendor voyage cancelations will hit Carnival earnings

Carnival Corporation expects fourth quarter earning to take a hit as a result of voyage distruptions following last week’s engine room fire on Carnival Splendor. Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled Splendor sailings