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
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Van Oord delivered the newest addition to its fleet Artemis whose first project will be deepening the Grand Port Maritime de la Rochelle harbor basin and dredging a trench in the access channel. Read More
Van Oord delivered the newest addition to its fleet Artemis whose first project will be deepening the Grand Port Maritime de la Rochelle harbor basin and dredging a trench in the access channel. Read More
Our group pored for days over what we were sure was the best and most efficient plan to dredge El Salvadorian bay Puerto Cortes and reclaim land there for a new wharf. We had gotten as far as making cost estimates and evaluating how long it would take to mobilize our equipment from Venezuela to the dredging site if we won the bid. We had gone through the pre-bid meeting and thought we had all the information we needed to make what we hoped would be the winning offer less than 24 hours later. Read More
Our group pored for days over what we were sure was the best and most efficient plan to dredge El Salvadorian bay Puerto Cortes and reclaim land there for a new wharf. We had gotten as far as making cost estimates and evaluating how long it would take to mobilize our equipment from Venezuela to the dredging site if we won the bid. We had gone through the pre-bid meeting and thought we had all the information we needed to make what we hoped would be the winning offer less than 24 hours later. Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD) announced on May 16 that it had been awarded a $122 million contract to deepen Miami Harbor. The project is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of this year and will deepen Miami’s shipping channel to 50 feet. The Corps of Engineers awarded the base work for this project which includes deepening the offshore entrance channel. Option work involving the deepening of the inner channels to provide access to the port’s berthing areas is expected to be awarded by January 31 2014. These options if awarded will bring the value of the project to $206 million. Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD) announced on May 16 that it had been awarded a $122 million contract to deepen Miami Harbor. The project is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of this year and will deepen Miami’s shipping channel to 50 feet. The Corps of Engineers awarded the base work for this project which includes deepening the offshore entrance channel. Option work involving the deepening of the inner channels to provide access to the port’s berthing areas is expected to be awarded by January 31 2014. These options if awarded will bring the value of the project to $206 million. Read More
The environmental dredging community was well-represented at the Battelle Seventh International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments at the Dallas Texas Hyatt Regency Hotel on February 4 through 7. Read More
The environmental dredging community was well-represented at the Battelle Seventh International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments at the Dallas Texas Hyatt Regency Hotel on February 4 through 7. Read More
Vignettes of dredging history from 1977 1983 1993 2003 and 2008 Read More
