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

Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors B.V. (Van Oord) and Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) completed the first stage of Maasvlakte 2 an expansion of the Port of Rotterdam on April 17. PUMA the joint venture of the two contractors started the project five years ago. Read More

Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors B.V. (Van Oord) and Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) completed the first stage of Maasvlakte 2 an expansion of the Port of Rotterdam on April 17. PUMA the joint venture of the two contractors started the project five years ago. Read More

For millennia the most action happening in the vast and sparsely populated expanse of jungle-backed beach south of São João da Barra Brazil was the sea turtle nesting season. Starting each December the shelled giants would crawl out of the water and lay their eggs along the wide stretches of white sand; by March tens of thousands of infant marine turtles would be journeying into the sea for the first time. Read More