Mobile Dredging & Video Pipe Inc. (MDVP) of Chester, Pennsylvania, purchased a Seafloor Systems EchoBoat-ASV™ last September. Referring to the ASV as a “drone boat”, Project Manager Stephen Simpson said… 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 Fehmarnbelt road and rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany will be the largest infrastructure construction ever built in Denmark. To achieve this monumental work, the first step will be… Read More
Representatives of the Mississippi Valley Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 28 and March 1 for the organization’s 2018 construction roundtable… Read More
On February 12, the Trump administration released details for the fiscal year 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program. The budget provides $4.785 billion in discretionary funding for… Read More
Although most of the waterways-related items in President Trump’s proposed budget dismayed the towing industry and its allies and are unlikely to survive in Congress, the budget did give one… Read More
Earlier this month, a pair of West Louisiana ports—West Calcasieu Port and the Port of Vinton—announced they have awarded dredging contracts aimed at improving port access and boosting space for… Read More
The 5th International Dredging Technology Development Conference was held in Beijing China on November 28 and 29 with participants coming from many European countries. Under the theme of “Dredging Ecology… Read More
In July 2017 CFM offered a tender for Mozambique’s port and railway company for the emergency dredging of the port. The contract was awarded four months later in November 2017… Read More
Asia’s largest most advanced cutter suction dredge (CSD) was launched in early November 2017 in the city of Qidong in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu. The dredge built for… Read More
This past August Penta-Ocean Construction Co. Ltd. received an order for the Port Works of Package 1.2 of Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project in Bangladesh from Sumitomo Corporation. The contract sum is approximately 162 billion… Read More
