The Corpus Christi (Texas) City Council recently awarded a $12.3 million construction contract to Callan Marine Ltd. for the Packery Channel Restoration project. The council also accepted and appropriated three… 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.
Numerous serious shortcomings and deficiencies in safety planning and risk assessment contributed to the “totally preventable” rupturing of a pipeline in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel by a cutterhead dredge… Read More
More than 50 members of Women in Maritime Operations (WIMOs) learned about dredging during the organization’s Dredging 101 webinar November 9. Sean Duffy of The Big River Coalition and David… Read More
Work repairing a stone dike at Victoria Bend on the Lower Mississippi River could cause major delays in transiting the area. The work at Mile 595.5 on the left descending… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) announced November 22 that it had signed a $92.5 million contract for the Houston Ship Channel Widening and Improvement Project, called Project 11. Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) announced November 16 that it has signed a contract with Philly Shipyard Inc. to build the first U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-compliant, inclined fallpipe vessel… Read More
The St. Paul Engineer District recently awarded a $10.2 million contract to Newt Marine Service, Dubuque, Iowa, for mooring dolphin replacement and an $18.6 million contract to Kraemer North America,… Read More
The St. Paul Engineer District and contractor Beach Transport Inc., of North Branch, Minn., began moving dredged material from the Homer Placement Site, south of Winona, Minn., earlier this month. Read More
The Quad Cities region is eagerly awaiting the final opening of a project that has taken four and a half years to complete: the I-74 highway bridge over the Mississippi… Read More
Many people welcomed the news on November 5 when the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes $2.5 billion in waterways infrastructure funding. Edward Belk Jr., P.E. Read More
