In August the Panama Canal reached its second month of full operations. According to estimates from the Panama Canal Author-ity (ACP) more than 230 cruise ships are ex-pected to transit… Read More
Dredging & Marine Construction
The Waterways Journal has been covering dredging and marine construction news on the inland rivers since 1887. Now, with the combined power of IDR (International Dredging Review), we cover this news in greater depth, expanding our coverage to major projects along all US waterways, coastlines and the Great Lakes.
Jan De Nul’s subsidiary Sodraco SAS along with French-based Vinci Construction Grands Projets and EMCC formed a $147 million USD consortium to expand the Port of Kingston in Jamaica. According… Read More
In the last several months the Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard on the Volga River has delivered three 1000 cubic meter trailing suction hopper dredges ordered by Russia’s Federal State Unitary Enterprise… Read More
Van Oord has successfully executed an extensive ground improvement project for the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). The project which started in 2014 was completed at the end of August… Read More
Since the beginning of 2016 Van Oord has been working as the main contractor on one of the largest land reclamation project ever executed in Taiwan at the Port of… Read More
Belgian dredging environmental and marine engineering group DEME has won a EUR 41 mil-lion (US$45 million) dredging contract for the Container Terminal Quay Project at Port Louis Harbor in Mauritius. Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) realized a net profit of EUR 147.5 million (US$162.25 million) in the first half of 2016 (H1 2015: EUR 306.5 million). This represented a fall… Read More
Van Oord reported that in 2015 the company had achieved extremely positive results. The company achieved a record revenue of EUR 2.579 billion (US$2.84 billion). In 2014 revenues were at… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) celebrated the launch of a hopper dredge on September 30 at Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s Allanton Florida shipyard near Panama City. The 433-feet-long 92-feet-wide Ellis… Read More
On September 30 At Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s Allanton Florida Shipyard Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Celebrated the launch of a first-of-its-kind hopper dredge the 433-foot-long Ellis Island – the barge… Read More
