Deepwater Horizon restoration projects set to start rolling
JULY 8, 2015 — The recent $18.5 billion settlement reached by BP in the Deepwater Horizon case (see earlier story) should pave the way for long planned Gulf Coast restoration projects to
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Crowley invests in new Puerto Rico pier for newbuild duo
MAY 11, 2015 — Crowley Puerto Rico Services, Inc. has executed a $48.5 million construction contract for a new pier at its Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In conjunction
Jan De Nul orders two rock installation vessels
MAY 6, 2015 — Aalst, Belgium, headquartered dredging and marine construction giant Jan De Nul Group has ordered two 6,000 ton subsea rock installation vessels have been ordered at AVIC Weihai shipyard
Weeks wins $7.5 million dredging contract
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
Great Lakes Dredge gets $25.6 million Arthur Kill contract
DECEMBER 10, 2014 — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., LLC, Oak Brook, IL, has been awarded a $25,637,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the Arthur Kill Channel Navigation project, which includes dredging, blasting
GLDD gets a slice of the Suez pie
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
USCG responds to two Mobile Ship Channel sinkings
OCTOBER 14, 2014 — The Coast Guard is responding to two sunken vessels in Mobile Ship Channel north of Gaillard Island, Tuesday. Coast Guard Sector Mobile watch standers received a call from
Pirate boat skipper cops plea in prop washing case
OCTOBER 1, 2014 — A passenger vessel operator has pleaded guilty in a case involving unauthorized dredging by “prop washing,” using a replica pirate ship. Captain David Wayne Luther operates the Belle
Ulstein books contract for Van Oord rock installer
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 — Ulstein has been awarded a design and equipment contract for the subsea rock installation vessel recently ordered from Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group’s Ningbo shipyard in China by Rotterdam headquartered
Van Oord orders rock installer at Sinopacific
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 — Rotterdam headquartered Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors bv has ordered a new subsea rock installation vessel from Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group’s Ningbo shipyard in China. Delivery is set