Dr. Robert Randall has scheduled the 39th Dredging Engineering Short Course and Cutter Suction Dredge Simulator Course for January 2010 at Texas A&M University.The short course to be held January 11 through 15 is designed to educate dredge operators in the technicalities of planning and carrying out dredging operations. A maximum of nine participants will be accepted for the course and they will receive approximately three continuing education units (CEUs). Read More

Letters to the Editor

October 20, 2009

Re: J.F. Brennan Uses 335000 Cubic Yards of Aggregates for Capping in Little Lake Buttes des Morts IDR July/August 2009 pp. 6 – 9. Thanks Judith. The article was awesome!… Read More

Dredging Supply Company Inc. (DSC) hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 13 2009 to open their new design center a 5800-square-foot building newly-erected behind the companys Thomas J. Wetta III Administration building. Read More

Houston Ship Channel Texas Sims to Turning Basin with Light Draft in Harris County Texas Pipeline Dredging. Awarded to T.W. LaQuay Dredging Inc. for $9712080 on July 1 2009 by… Read More

DUTCH DREDGING CONTRACTS

October 15, 2009

Van Oord and Boskalis are performing coastal defense projects for the Hollandse Delta Water Board including beach nourishment and dune reinforcement. Read More

Visiting New York

October 15, 2009

I visited New York City on a blustery four days in mid-September to tour the port facilities as a guest of the Corps of Engineers on September 10 and as… Read More

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced on October 1 that it will continue until April 30 2010 a program that provides short-term cost reduction and greater flexibility to its Reservation… Read More