The Kansas City Engineer District has renewed permits for six commercial dredging companies currently authorized to extract sand and gravel from the Missouri River. Their existing permits, which expire April… 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.
Although mobility might not be the first quality that comes to mind when talking about a 300,000-pound machine, that’s what attracted Chip Broussard to his new Sennebogen 875 R-HD material… Read More
Callan Marine Ltd., a family-owned dredging company in business since 2009, announced March 8 that it has launched a new marine construction division, providing a broad range of turnkey marine,… Read More
A 20-foot Mike Hooks dredge tender sank March 1 near buoy 30 in the Matagorda Ship Channel. U.S. Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi soon thereafter established a safety zone for… Read More
The St. Paul Engineer District and the Prairie Island Indian Community signed a project partnership agreement February 25 for an environmental improvement project on the Mississippi River. The project is… Read More
The Memphis Engineer District held five ribbon-cutting ceremonies in a single day January 20 to signify the completion of bank armoring, pumping station repair and seepage remediation projects. The day… Read More
J.F. Brennan Company announced February 24 that it has begun a Small Business Administration-certified joint venture with Ahtna Marine & Construction Company LLC. The partnership establishes a mentor-protégé relationship between… Read More
The Kansas City Engineer District is taking multiple actions to repair and mitigate damage done to river structures on the Missouri River from high water over the last several years,… Read More
Conrad Shipyard hosted a steel-cutting ceremony February 5 at the company’s Deepwater South shipyard in Amelia, La., to officially launch the construction of a 6,500-cubic-yard trailing suction hopper dredge for… Read More
Thirty years ago, Ray Bergeron stopped by the office of The Waterways Journal to explain his new clamshell bucket design. Two years earlier, in 1989, Bergeron had noticed how inefficient… Read More
