Wärtsilä to power giant dredge
JANUARY 2, 2015 — A 6,500 cu.m. non self-propelled cutter dredge under construction in China will be one of the world’s largest with 5,200 kW of cutter power. Designed by the Design
JANUARY 2, 2015 — A 6,500 cu.m. non self-propelled cutter dredge under construction in China will be one of the world’s largest with 5,200 kW of cutter power. Designed by the Design
DECEMBER 24, 2014 — Weeks Marine, Inc., has been awarded a $7,537,000 firm-fixed-price contract, with options, to furnish one fully crewed and equipped cutterhead dredge, with a dredge discharge size of 30
OCTOBER 21, 2014 — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD) reports that the Suez Canal Authority Chairman Mohab Mohamed Hussein Mamish has signed a $540 million contract with a consortium consisting
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014 — Eastern Shipbuilding reports that on September 15 it cut steel to start construction of the trailing suction hopper dredge articulated tug barge on order for Great Lakes Dredge
AUGUST 8, 2014 — Thordon Bearings, Inc. says that water lubricated Thordon composite cutterhead shaft bearings have performed well for nine years on one of the largest cutter suction dredges in the
FEBRUARY 6, 2014 — A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident report says that a bollard failure at BAE Systems Mobile, AL, shipyard is the probable cause of the April 3, 2013,
FEBRUARY 5, 2014 — Sliedrecht, the Netherlands, headquartered IHC Merwede is to start construction of the largest trailing suction hopper dredge that it has ever produced. It has been ordered by China’s
OCTOBER 17, 2013 — Signal Ship Repair (SSR), Mobile, AL, a division of Signal International, Inc., reports that it recently redelivered the dredge Wheeler to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
AUGUST 15, 2013—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, recently awarded a firm-fixed-price, no option, non-multi-year, award with a maximum value of $26.4 million to Weeks Marine, Inc., Covington, LA,
APRIL 24, 2013 — MAN Diesel & Turbo reports the 500th sale of its MAN 48/60 medium-speed engine. The milestone was reached with the order of two common-rail variants of the engine