Awards to dredging industry icons a new slate of officers a talk on the new Corps Dredge Murden 56 technical papers 42 exhibits and the musical backdrop of Nashville Tennessee marked the 32nd Western Dredging Association meeting and 43rd Texas A&M Dredging Seminar on June 4 9. Read More
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Economic recovery coastal protection and environment restoration it all starts with dredging.That all-encompassing statement by Bill Hanson says it all.Hanson who is vice president of business development at Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company was among several speakers emphasizing the importance of timely dredging of waterways ports harbors and coastal channels at the National Dredging Meeting May 24 and 25 in Washington D.C. Read More
Patrick McLaren's Sediment Trend Analysis (STA) determines the patterns of net sediment transport and their dynamic behavior. Samples are simply observations and the derived patterns of transport explain the observations he says.Because only one pattern can ever be found linking the sample distributions Im 100 percent confident that the derived understanding of how the environment is working is correct he says. Read More
Damen Dredging has provided DOP pumps and special cutters to dredging contractor Martens & van Oord for a dredging project in Rotterdam where the area is riddled with 2500 pilings and the material to be dredged is a heavy clay. Read More
Angela Y. Premo was honored by the Dredging Contractors of America on May 25 with the William R. Murden Lifetime Public Service award. She retired on March 2 2011 from a 33-year career in the Corps of Engineers devoted mainly to dredging and navigation projects and programs. Read More
Weeks Marine Inc. Inc. (WMI) is building two new dredges an 8500 cubic yard hopper dredge Weeks 475; and an ocean-class 30-inch hydraulic cutter suction dredge Weeks 314.The new dredges represent an investment of more than $125 million and the creation of 125 permanent well-paying jobs according to Richard S. Weeks WMI president. Read More
A GIW Industries MDX slurry pump has nearly doubled the wear life of its wet ends which has cut maintenance downtime in half at the Kinross Fort Knox mine in Fairbanks Alaska. Read More
Norfolk Dredging Companys 10000 horsepower dredge Charleston is deepening five miles of the Navy channel in the Elizabeth River from Lamberts Point to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth Virginia. The 24-inch discharge line which began at 21000 feet long will eventually stretch for 50000 feet from the dredge to the Norfolk Districts Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area in Portsmouth. Read More
Jon Berger ceo and director of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock LLC described the companys activities and goals to the 2011 Deutsche Bank Global Industrials and Basic Materials Conference on June 16. Read More
Damen Dredging has provided DOP pumps and special cutters to dredging contractor Martens & van Oord for a dredging project in Rotterdam where the area is riddled with 2500 pilings and the material to be dredged is a heavy clay. Read More
