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
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.
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
The Omaha Engineer District and the city of Hamburg, Iowa, signed a Section 1176 project agreement February 10 that will allow for raising the Hamburg Ditch 6 levee 8 feet,… Read More
Callan Marine, a Galveston, Texas-based provider of dredging services, announced February 1 it has been awarded a long-term contract for maintenance dredging within the Port of Corpus Christi, in addition… Read More
The board of directors of the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has announced the organization’s annual Dredging Summit & Expo, previously set to occur in person in Tampa Jun 15–17, will… Read More
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Texas, Freeport Harbor to Upper Matagorda Bay in Brazoria and Matagorda Counties, Texas, Pipeline Dredging. To Inland Dredging Company LLC for $10,494,700, line items 1 to 9,… Read More
In the final days of the Trump administration, residents of southeast Louisiana received a parting gift from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the form of “new start”… Read More
Quincy, Mass.-based Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Company has announced a contract with IHC America Inc. for the design of a new 6,500-cubic-yard trailing suction hopper dredge. Cashman has not… Read More
