Orion Marine Group Inc, a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, today announced changes in its management structure. On February 25, 2014, Mike Pearson, Orion Marine Group’s President and Chief Executive Officer, notified the Company’s Board of Directors of his pla
CARIS will exhibit at Oceanology International (March 11 -13, London, UK), with the main goal to showcase its latest software advancements. This event will bring together thousands of visitors from the marine technology and ocean science global community. “Our team of CARIS experts will be at stand
Dredging, maintenance, environmental legislation and the Dutch example topped the agenda during a flooding early bird meeting at #NFU14 this morning. The session saw the publication of the NFU’s flooding manifesto, suggesting that farmland and rural communities are too often sacrificed as the lowest
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, will host a web meeting on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EST to discuss open lake placement in Lake Erie of dredged sediment from the Cuyahoga River federal navigation channel. Participation can be by phone only by following th
Volga Group, Gennady Timchenko’s investment vehicle, has acquired a 50% stake in Sukhodol LLC, a company which is constructing a new bulk terminal in Sukhodol Bay, in the Primorsky region in Russia’s Far East. Once completed the terminal is expected to have a capacity of 20 million tons per year. Th
Cavotec has won three orders worth a total of more than EUR 28 million for MoorMaster™ automated mooring systems at applications in Australia, Canada and Denmark, one of which – for the St. Lawrence Seaway in Canada – is the largest to date for MoorMaster™, and one of the biggest projects in the his
International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has scheduled its international course named “The Hydraulic Fill Manual” for June 4th and 5th, 2014, in Delft, The Netherlands. This course will cover the initiation, design and construction of hydraulic fill projects as described in the recentl
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, plans to issue a tender invitation for the North Coast Pipeline Maintenance Dredging 2014. This contract will consist of dredging work at South Beach Marina, Depoe Bay, and Garibaldi Boat Basin, located on the Oregon Coast. The quantities of the d
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, is conducting preliminary research to determine the market capabilities of potential contractors to perform maintenance dredging in the Savannah and Brunswick entrance channels. During the cleanup program about 2 to 3 million cubic yards of materi
Seven experiments are currently in progress for the ‘Dikes on Peat’ study at the Deltares GeoCentrifuge. The results will have a major impact on the amended calculation method that will ultimately emerge. Towards a new calculation method ‘Dikes on Peat’ is an innovative research project that Deltare
The Norfolk Naval Station cleanup program, located in Norfolk, VA, will consist of hydraulic dredging of mud and silt, announced the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Office. The dredged material will be placed at the North Containment Cell of Craney Island Dredge material Management Area, in Por
By the end of 2015, the Panama Canal will have undergone its largest expansion to date. In what is undoubtedly good news for Maryland’s maritime economics, when the first big ships make their way through the canal, the Port of Baltimore is one of two ports on the East coast currently able to accommo
A state court upheld Georgia’s Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee’s denial of a permit for a private marina proposed to be built in state marshlands on Wilmington Island, east of Savannah, Georgia. The court ruled that the permit applicant, Bull River Bluff Properties, LLC, had not demonstrated
The Australian Marine Conservation Society has today welcomed the decision from Lend Lease to withdraw their involvement in any future port development at Abbot Point saying that most of the Australian public would welcome it. Felicity Wishart, the campaign director, said that no one should be indus
