On April 17 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) announced that it had terminated its contract with shipyard Signal International Inc. for building a new trailing suction hopper dredge. Read More
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The U.S. Senate has passed S. 601 the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (WRDA) in May and the bill’s fate is now with the House of Representatives as it holds subcommittee hearings in preparation for a vote. Read More
The U.S. Senate has passed S. 601 the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (WRDA) in May and the bill’s fate is now with the House of Representatives as it holds subcommittee hearings in preparation for a vote. Read More
In February Ruud Ouwerkerk president of DTC (Dredge Technology Corporation) sent a letter informing his North American colleagues including those at IDR of his forthcoming retirement and the resulting changes in his corporation Dredge Technology Corporation (DTC) is the North American office of Dutch dredge builder IHC Merwede. Read More
In February Ruud Ouwerkerk president of DTC (Dredge Technology Corporation) sent a letter informing his North American colleagues including those at IDR of his forthcoming retirement and the resulting changes in his corporation Dredge Technology Corporation (DTC) is the North American office of Dutch dredge builder IHC Merwede. Read More
The House and Senate budgets were both passed in March. Eli Zupnick spokesperson for the Senate (Majority) Budget Committee said the president weighed in with his proposal “and now we are hoping to move to a conference committee and work toward a bipartisan budget deal.” Read More
The House and Senate budgets were both passed in March. Eli Zupnick spokesperson for the Senate (Majority) Budget Committee said the president weighed in with his proposal “and now we are hoping to move to a conference committee and work toward a bipartisan budget deal.” Read More
In May the hopper dredge Jean Ango was delivered to its owner Dragages-Ports for maintaining the French river Seine. The 1500-cubic-meter (about 1965-cubic-yard) dredge was designed and built in Spain by Astilleros de Murueta using Damen dredging equipment. Read More
In May the hopper dredge Jean Ango was delivered to its owner Dragages-Ports for maintaining the French river Seine. The 1500-cubic-meter (about 1965-cubic-yard) dredge was designed and built in Spain by Astilleros de Murueta using Damen dredging equipment. Read More
This environmental clamshell is under construction for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) at Cable Arm’s facility near Detroit. GLDD will use the bucket to remove maintenance material prior to deepening the channel in the Arthur Kill at the Port of New York and New Jersey. At a 1.8-foot depth of cut the bucket has a capacity of 30 cubic yards. Marinex Construction Company has ordered a 50-cubic-yard bucket and Cashman Dredging has ordered a 70-cubic-yard bucket from Cable Arm both for maintenance dredging. Read More
