On Monday, the Pelican Bay Services Division approved the Clam Pass dredging plans. On December 11, 2012, the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) clarified and reaffirmed that the Pelican Bay Services Division has the responsibility for advising the County on dredging and maintaining Clam Pass and f
Kraken Sonar Systems Inc., a leading marine technology company, announced yesterday that it has signed a Contribution Agreement with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). The funding will be applied to the development of AquaTrak™ – a new Correlat
Reef Subsea announced today they have secured new premises in Aberdeen, Scotland, to gather their local teams and operations under one roof namely ‘Reef Subsea House’, located within Altens Industrial Estate, south of the city. The bespoke building will support Group’s companies to continue to devel
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Germany has engaged in the coastal permafrost erosion research project (COPER) funded by the Helmholz Association and the institute. Kongsberg Geoacoustic’s GeoSwath Plus Compact system is playing a vital part in this important proj
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, has been tasked to solicit for and award a project/procurement to include deep channel pipeline dredging of approximately 1,000,000 cubic yards of maintenance material from the Houston Ship Channel Carpenters to Greens Reach with possible options
CARIS and EIVA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on providing offshore survey organizations with a tightly integrated and streamlined solution. Both companies develop state-of-the-art software for the marine offshore market. CARIS is a world leader in software for hydrog
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractor is scheduled to begin Snohomish River federal navigation channel maintenance dredging today. American Construction Company will remove up to 127,000 cubic yards of material from the channel by clamshell dredging. The Corps’ Seattle District awarded a $1.25 mil
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a nearly $48 million contract for the completion of Phase One of the Site 1 Impoundment Project to Munilla Construction Management LLC (d/b/a MCM) of Miami, Fla., Jan. 18. “The Corps successfully worked through recent construction issues and the project is ba
On December 28, 2012, at the “Open a New Era of Eco-civilization”–Award Forum for China’s Top 100 Environmentally Responsible Listed Companies in Beijing, CCCC won the award. The forum was organized by the Organizing Committee on Environmental Responsibility Survey of Chinese Listed Companies, the C
Recently, CCCC Tianjin Dredging Co., Ltd. has successively won the bids for the reclamation project of Fujian Mawei (Lianjiang) Ship and Marine Engineering Equipment Park, as well as Section 1 and 2 of Phase 1 of a 200000t waterway in the general zone and the bulk zone of Huanghua Port, with a total
Recently, CCCC Second Harbor Consultants Co., Ltd. has signed the EPC contract for the terminal project of the 1x670MW supercritical coal-fired power plant in Banten, Indonesia, with a contract value of 294 million yuan. Located in the northwest of the Island of Java, the project involves the constr
The International Maritime Organization (IMO), in collaboration with the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and the French Hydrographic Office (SHOM), recently held a two-week training course in hydrography and nautical charting for the benefit of French-speaking African countries. The tr
APM Terminals Callao has become the world’s first port facility to install Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology as a new safety measure for use with container handling equipment such as reach stackers and forklifts, after an extensive testing period. Known as the “ZoneSafe Proximity Warn
Anchor QEA recently announced that ten graduate students have been selected for the 2012 Scholarship Program. The scholarship was established by Anchor QEA, an environmental science and engineering consulting firm, to promote and help support graduate students who are majoring in geology, planning a
