Jackson County Port Authority commissioners recently awarded two contracts that are part of VT Halter Marine’s multimillion-dollar south yard expansion. The new ship repair facility, to be built at the Bayou Casotte shipyard in Pascagoula, will create about 400 new jobs while diversifying the compan
The Australian Marine Conservation Society and Turtle Island Restoration Network program director Teri Shore have warned the massive port projects and other industrial activity planned for the Great Barrier Reef will push globally significant species of turtles closer to the brink of extinction. The
On July 24, the installation and debugging of the 13 pieces of port equipment and some mobile machinery of container terminal in Lobito Port expansion project in Angola were completed and the port equipment and mobile machinery were officially transferred to the client. This laid a foundation for th
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. realized a net profit of EUR 123 million in the first half of 2013 (H1 2012: EUR 102 million). Dockwise contributed EUR 15 million to this result. Revenue rose by 12% in the first half to EUR 1.6 billion (H1 2012: EUR 1.4 billion). Organic revenue growth was 4%. EBITD
Army Corps of Engineers contractors finished work recently on a beach replenishment project in Ocean City that stretched about 2.3 miles, from Seaspray Road to 14th Street. The project was part of a regularly scheduled series of beach maintenance projects for north-end and downtown beaches. A 309-fo
The Forum on Early Contractor Involvement (14-15 November 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is organised by the IADC and supported by the EADA (Eastern Dredging Association). Anyone involved in large infrastructure projects has come up against delays, postponements and risks. And the first question that
After several years of careful preparation, the construction of Maasvlakte 2 has been in full swing since 1 September 2008. Maasvlakte 2 is the western expansion of the Rotterdam port area in the North Sea. A total surface area of 2,000 hectares will be created by spraying on sand off the coast. Thi
The Central Dredging Association CEDA is ringing the changes at Europort 2013 with a new initiative called the CEDA Forum. This stimulating and informative event will replace the usual Dredging Days this year. Taking as its theme ‘Dredging in a Changing World’, CEDA Forum’s centrepiece will be two i
Continuing a long tradition of excellence, PORTS ’13 “Ports: Success Through Diversification” (August 25-29, 2013, Seattle, Washington) is the thirteenth in a series of international port and harbor development specialty conferences held on a tri-annual basis since 1977. This conference’s theme was
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, has introduced a plan for the Savannah and Brunswick entrance channels maintenance dredging program. The dredging vessels that will be involved in this project must have the capability to dredge fine sands and silts to a depth of -48 MLLW and to t
Thomas Fields, President of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, gave his official inaugural speech on Aug. 5, 2013. In it, he outlined his plans to launch a 100-day “listening tour” with Port customers and other stakeholders, and to pursue the development of “maritime industry clusters” to
On July 29, the signing ceremony for Flood Control Project of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia was held in the meeting room of Mecca Governor Office Building. The client’s representative, Prince Khalid Al Faisal, and the contractor’s representative, Dai Zhanping, the general manager of CCCC Saudi Arabia Branch,
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will invest in its fiscal year (FY) 2014 (October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014) approximately US$238 million in maintenance of structures and equipment to continue providing an efficient service to the international maritime community. “The key to the Panama Canal’s
Orion Marine Group, Inc., a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, announced a contract award of approximately $15 million. Orion Marine Group was recently awarded a contract to partially demolish and reconstruct a wharf, along with installing new crane rails for th
