Wärtsilä is developing a harbor tug design for a new port facility being constructed in São Mateus-ES, Brazil. The work stems from a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Wärtsilä and… 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.
Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has released a new sediment corer, designed to be mounted to ROV and AUV skids. With the new corer, sediment samples can be collected and… Read More
Coda Octopus has released the Echoscope4G® Surface as the first product in the company’s 4thgeneration of real-time 3D sonar. The new sonar is 50 percent lighter and nearly half the… Read More
Damen Shipyards Group has signed a contract with Group Ocean of Canada, for the delivery of two Modular Multi Cats 1205 that will be used as dredging support vessels on… Read More
Subsea technology company Seatools has completed the development, manufacturing and testing of two 250-liter subsea pressure compensators for Bakker Sliedrecht. The ultra-long life compensators will be applied to 1.7 MW… Read More
Kongsberg has released the third generation of its 30kHz Multibeam Echo Sounder System, with an increased range and resolution performance. The new EM 304 is used for seabed mapping to… Read More
Port Canveral in Florida hosted a conference in December that outlined plans to renourish Brevard County beaches, as part of the Brevard County Shore Protection Project. The pre-construction meeting was organized by the U.S. Read More
This year, HME Construction dredged approximately 170,000 cubic yards during the annual berth maintenance dredging project at the Port of Kalama in Washington. The port is maintained at 45 feet deep and annually approximately… Read More
On December 12, 2017, the Port of Virginia and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District released the Draft General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Elizabeth… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District awarded $4,662,432 to Orion Marine Construction of Tampa, Florida, for Tampa Harbor and St. Petersburg Harbor maintenance dredging. While the work is… Read More
