For the third year in a row, the New Orleans Engineer District is overseeing construction of an underwater sill across the bed of the Mississippi River Ship Channel. The sill… 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.
(Editor’s note: This is the first of a planned periodic series on the data infrastructure underlying the physical infrastructure of the U.S. inland waterways system.) The symbol and logo for… Read More
While based along the Ohio River in Evansville, Ind., Southwind Construction’s portable dredges have taken on jobs big and small along the Eastern Seaboard for more than 20 years. Recently,… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States, recently announced the receipt of dredging awards totaling $256.2 million. The awarded work… Read More
The 119th annual Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) Seminar met in New Orleans August 7-10 with a packed agenda that tackled everything from project funding at the national level down… Read More
A contractor for the Pittsburgh Engineer District blasted away the first portion of the Monongahela Dam 3 near Elizabeth, Pa., about 7 p.m. on July 10. The explosive demolition, which… Read More
Orion Group Holdings, Inc., a leading specialty construction company, recently announced three contract awards, two in its concrete segment and one in its marine segment. Each of the three projects… Read More
The Corps of Engineers Dredge Jadwin, its crew and its owners—the Vicksburg Engineer District—has been awarded the 2024 Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Annual Safety Excellence Award for a “dredging stakeholder.”… Read More
For Ray Bergeron, what started as a summer job during college grew into a career that has spanned more than 60 years. Bergeron, 80, of Trenton, Mich., founded Cable Arm,… Read More
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) stakeholders will gather in New Orleans August 7–9 for the 119th annual seminar of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA). GICA President Paul Dittman sat down… Read More
