West Sacramento levees are no longer sinking as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District wraps up repairs on nearly a mile of levees near the Yolo Bypass. The repairs are part of the Corps’ West Sacramento Project, a joint effort with the West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency and the Central Valley Flood [...]
Abigroup has finished a $116 million contract to design and construct the seawall bund and haul road for the Port of Gladstone Western Basin expansion in Queensland. The project, which was completed ahead of schedule, is part of Gladstone Ports Corporation’s (GPC) infrastructure expansion to cater for the increased shipping requirements. Abigroup’s Queensland General Manager [...]
CTC Marine Projects, Ltd., part of DeepOcean Group Holding AS, has announced the completion of its trenching work for the Kipper Tuna Turrum Project in the KTT Field located 45 kilometres offshore Victoria, Australia. The work was undertaken on contract for McDermott Industries (Aust) Pty Ltd. The Company performed trenching of the recently installed hydraulic [...]
A global subsea engineering firm is working on a major North Sea contract worth in excess of £2million. Rotech Subsea, which is headquartered in Aberdeen and owned by Norwegian firm Reef Subsea, is involved in a subsea excavation project with marine construction firm Red7Marine on what will be the UK’s largest operating wind farm. The [...]
Panama City Beach is commemorating the start of 2012 by celebrating the completion of its three-month $16 million beach renourishment project. Working with the United States Corps of Engineers, the destination pumped 1.4 million cubic yards of sand to approximately 7.5 miles of beach, extending the shoreline by 100 feet in many locations. This is [...]
A project to move sand from one portion of the city’s beaches to another has been completed with hopes a sharp drop off has been removed … By Jack Fichter (capemaycountyherald) Source: capemaycountyherald, December 27, 2011;
Hutchison Whampoa and Huizhou Port Affairs Group have announced completion of construction work on Huizhou Port container berth. The Huizhou Port container berth will start trial operation by the beginning of 2012. Hutchison Whampoa and Huizhou Port Affairs also plan to invest a total of US$309 million in a two 50,000-tonne container berths in Quanwan, Huizhou [...]
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has completed the previously announced acquisition of MNO Vervat. MNO Vervat holds a leading position in the Dutch civil infrastructure market. Established in 1917, this family-owned business is specialized in road construction, concrete and other civil construction work. Internationally MNO Vervat operates mainly in Suriname. MNO Vervat has an annual revenue [...]
Jan de Nul was contracted by AML to re-establish a navigational channel by dredging from Pepel out along the Sierra Leone River to Freetown. The channel being required to allow safe passage of Handymax Bulk carriers from the Pepel loading jetty to the offshore transhipment area, as part of AML’s Tonkolili Iron Ore Project. As [...]
Anthony D Bates Partnership LLP (ADBP) has completed a report for the Belgian company Baggerwerken Decloedt en Zoon, one of the primary operating companies of DEME Group, which provides an independent expert professional review of the Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project in the Philippines. The proposed Rehabilitation Project comprised of negating the impacts of the Loss [...]
