The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making investment of $28 million in six new Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP) projects and four ongoing ones. Partners will contribute $2.82 million, bringing the total investments to $30.82 million. “Wetlands have tremendous benefits ranging
Sif Holding (Sif) and Royal IHC (IHC) have finalized the acquisition of “KCI the engineers” (KCI) by Sif. Works Councils have advised positively on the acquisition and trade unions have been informed. Financial details will not be disclosed. KCI employs approx. 65 people who realized profitable sale
Straatman BV – specialized in fabrication of hydraulic presses, heavy winches and custom build projects for dredging industry – has received another order from a returning customer. “The biggest compliment you can get is a returning customer. Last year we supplied two pinch ball joints to Weeks Mari
Boskalis Westminster Ltd. is about to kick off a Surveying and Maintenance Dredging project in the Portsmouth Harbour. According to the Queen’s Harbour Master Portsmouth, the surveying and maintenance dredging of the Portsmouth Harbour and its approach channels will be conducted from 22 to 30 March
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC (GLDD), from Oak Brook, Illinois, has won a $28.5 million firm-fixed-price contract for rehabilitation efforts for the Panama City Beaches Coastal Storm Risk Management Project. Bids were solicited via the internet with four received, the U.S. Department of Defense
C-Job Naval Architects is launching an in-house developed trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) series – aimed to filling the gap between standard designs and fully tailored vessels. The TSHD Fleet features maintenance, multifunctional, and capital dredgers each with varying hopper capacity. Each
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) has won a dredging contract valued at Rs 310 crore ($42.7 million) from Centre-run Deendayal Port Trust in Kandla, Gujarat. According to The Hindu Business Line, India’s biggest private port operator and private dredging contractor had emerged the lo
Wilson Sons, one of the largest integrated port and maritime logistics operators in Brazil, has acquired a minority stake in Israeli startup Docktech along with a commercial exclusivity agreement to use the company’s maritime technology to monitor berth and waterway depth in Brazilian ports. With th
The USACE Baltimore District awarded a contract on March 5, 2021, to Mohawk Valley Materials for approximately $3.23 million to replace the floodwall adjacent to Penn Street – part of USACE’s Codorus Creek flood risk management project. The overall project, located in the vicinity of York, Pennsylva
Western Dredging Association (WEDA) recently announced their decision to go virtual with the 2021 Midwest Chapter Meeting and postpone the Green Bay in-person event until March 22-24, 2022, due to the continuing pandemic. The 2021 Virtual Meeting is taking place Thursday, March 18th 2021 from 1 to 5
Nicola Offshore GmbH, a new company specializing in services for the marine survey campaigns and on-demand missions in and around Europe, started operations from its HQ in Hamburg today. Working from an agile logistics and technology platform, Nicola Offshore was established to service the more comp
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has signed the Record of Decision for the Mississippi River mainline levees Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement II. The Record of Decision details USACE’s decisions on conducting remedial measures necessary to control seepage and/or raise and st
Van Oord – a global marine contractor that focuses on dredging, land infrastructure in the Netherlands, offshore wind and oil & gas industtries – is taking a next step in the energy transition of its fleet. An advanced combustion conditioning system with hydrogen and methanol will be installed on su
A body was found yesterday afternoon in the Boco River in Vagos, Aveiro district in Portugal, during a dredging project. An alert was issued at about 2 pm, after the body was discovered on the bank of the Boco River, said the Capitania do Porto de Aveiro in their official statement. An official from
