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VIDEO: Houston Port Ready for Challenges
Now in its 100th anniversary, the Houston Ship Channel has spurred big growth in Harris County since its beginnings in 1914. Today, ship channel-related business provides $178.5 billion in annual economic activity and more than one million jobs to Texas. Nationwide, it generates $499 billion and mor
Official Start of the New Suez Canal Project
Head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Mohab Mamish and United Arab Emirates Minister of State Sultan Ahmed al-Gaber earlier this week gave the green light for the start of dredging works on the new Suez Canal project. Earlier this month, the heavy duty dredger of the National Marine Dredging Compan
Hudson Dredging: Backfilling Continues into December
Phase 2/Year 4 of the Hudson River dredging operations occurred between May 7 and November, 2014. Backfilling will continue into December 2014. Monitoring is conducted daily for river and Processing Facility operations during the dredging season. Phase 2 dredging operations will resume in spring 201
Van Oord to Undertake Coral Harbour Dredging
Over the next few months, multiple civil and marine works are scheduled to take place at the Coral Harbour, announced today the Royal Bahamas Defense Force. These works will hinder vessels passing through the Coral Harbour waterways, particularly in the area of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force Base.
USACE: Navigation Data Available Online
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District will soon finish uploading deep-draft navigation channel data on its hydrographic surveys webpage and will begin posting the same data for shallow-draft channels it maintains along the Texas coast early next year. “The Galveston District is tasked
Manson Nets Two Contracts Worth $18M
Manson Construction Company of Seattle, Washington, one of the nation’s leading heavy civil marine construction and dredging companies, has just won two dredging contracts from the government. The first one, worth approx $10.6 million and awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District
LSRWA Report Released for Public Comment
The Lower Susquehanna River Watershed Assessment (LSRWA) report released for public comment yesterday, November 13th 2014, indicates that the reservoir behind the Conowingo Dam is trapping smaller amounts of sediment and has essentially reached its limit to trap in the long term. However, a large ma
Vermilion Bay Harbor Work Completed
The Minister of Natural Resources and the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, and Member of Parliament for Kenora, Greg Rickford on behalf of Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, yesterday announced the completion of a harbor improvement project at Vermilion Bay Har
SIMRA Meeting on Missouri River
The State Interagency Missouri River Authority (SIMRA) will meet in Des Moines on November 17. Representatives of six state agencies will discuss ongoing science and upcoming weather expected to affect river levels and water quality in the Missouri River. Federal and state agency staff will update p
Officials to Discuss Lake Okeechobee Restoration
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection invites stakeholders — government representatives, scientists, environmental organizations, agricultural operators and others — to attend a meeting to discuss the draft Lake Okeechobee restoration plan (November 18, at Williamson Conference and Educ
Boskalis Raises 2014 Net Profit Outlook
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has concluded a good third quarter. Revenue and earnings, adjusted to reflect the deconsolidation of SAAM SMIT Towage, are in line with the first two quarters of 2014. At Dredging the possible settlement of a number of old projects mentioned during the presentation of
Deer Lake Delisted as ‘Areas of Concern’
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator/Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman yesterday joined Ishpeming Mayor Mike Tall, state officials and local residents at Deer Lake in Ishpeming, Michigan, to mark the removal of this toxic hotspot from a binational list of “Area