Jacobs has been selected by the Gulf Coast Protection District (GCPD) to lead engineering design for a coastal storm surge barrier along the Texas Gulf Coast – The Gate (known as the Bolivar Roads Gate System), which is a central element of the Coastal Texas Project. The system is expected to be amo
Barnstable County’s dredge vessel Sand Shifter has resumed operations in the Parker’s River Approach Channel in Yarmouth following a weather-related pause caused by high winds and extreme cold temperatures. Dredging restarted this week after several weeks of delay, with crews taking advantage of a b
The City of Saco, Maine, is proposing to conduct a maintenance dredge of the West Camp Ellis Anchorage on the Saco River. According to the City, dredging is expected to occur using a using a cutter suction (hydraulic) dredge. The dredged material is sand and will be pumped to Camp Ellis Beach throug
The Port of Virginia is continuing to modernize and expand its operation and recently debuted additional capacity to safely handle simultaneous calls of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs). In late January, the port put four new, all-electric, Suez-class ship-to-shore container cranes into service
Orion Group Holdings, Inc. has acquired J. E. McAmis, Inc. and JEM Marine Leasing LLC for approximately $60 million, net of cash acquired. “We are very pleased to welcome the J.E. McAmis team to Orion,” said Travis Boone, President and Chief Executive Officer of Orion. “This acquisition reflects the
Dredging and sand pumping work to renourish Sarasota’s shoreline is moving forward. This fully Federally-funded effort includes the dredging of New Pass and the beneficial placement of 300,000 cubic yards of sand along 1.2 miles of Sarasota’s shoreline. According to USACE, the project remains on sch
The Port of Suape, Pernambuco, said that the dredging works to deepen its internal channel are now complete. With a total investment of R$217 million ($41.2 million), the project increased the channel depth from 10 meters to 16.2 meters, removing operational bottlenecks and allowing larger vessels t
The newest addition to the Manson Construction Co. fleet – the hopper dredger Frederick Paup – departed the Seatrium AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, bound for Mobile, Alabama, last week. Representing Manson’s largest single investment since its founding in 1905, the Frederick Paup is the larg
The USACE Baltimore District of has received an application for a Department of the Army permit pursuant to Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 for a dredging project on the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. The applicant, the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment (
The City of North Myrtle Beach has just released the latest video update on their beach renourishment project. In just two weeks, demobilization of equipment will start with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, and renourishment will officially be completed. Under the $72 million proje
Royal IHC said that IHC Mining has won a new contract by STRACON Engineering to deliver advanced slurrification and dewatering equipment for the removal of gypsum sludge from the Pérez Caldera Tailings Storage Facility at Anglo American Sur’s Los Bronces copper mine in Chile. “Situated at an impress
Land clearing kicked off yesterday in an area known locally as The Farm, marking the official start of Statia based preparatory activities in support of the Black Rocks Harbor project on Saba. The land clearing activities are being carried out by Statia Construction, which is responsible for prepari
