GLDD wins several dredging contracts totaling $173.7M

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has just announced the receipt of several dredging awards totaling $173.7 million.

The awarded work includes:

• Sabine-Neches Waterway Channel Improvement Project-Phase 1 (Capital, Texas, $62.8 million)
  
• Great Egg Harbor Inlet Beach Renourishment Project (Coastal Protection, New Jersey, $33.8 million)
  
• St. Augustine Shore Protection Project (Coastal Protection, Florida, $33.6 million)
  
• Duval County Shore Protection Beach Renourishment Project (Coastal Protection, Florida, $32.4 million)
  
• Atchafalaya Bay and Bar Maintenance Dredging Project (Maintenance, Louisiana, $11.1 million)

Lasse Petterson, President and Chief Executive Officer, said: “Great Lakes is pleased to add these important projects to our 2023 backlog of capital, coastal protection and maintenance work. Working on these projects allows Great Lakes to help support the overall improvement and resiliency of our country’s environment, coastlines, and infrastructure.”  

The Sabine-Neches Waterway Channel Improvement Project-Phase 1 includes dredging for channel deepening along the Sabine-Neches Waterway from Sabine Bank Channel to Sabine Pass Channel.

The client on this project is the Sabine-Neches Navigation District and is federally and privately funded.

Work is expected to start in the first quarter of 2024 with estimated completion in the fourth quarter of 2024.