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
Author: International Dredging Review
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
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) was the apparent low bidder on the Pelican Island Barataria Shoreline Restoration project on the coast of Plaquemines Parish Louisiana. Read More
Bids were opened on July 14 for the West Belle Pass Barrier Headland and Marsh Creation project. Project manager Kenneth Bahlinger of Louisiana Office of Coastal Restoration told IDR on July 19 that the bids were being analyzed and that he anticipates a mid-August award and Notice to Proceed. Read More
The Corps hopper Dredge Yaquina turned 30 in June and Mac Robison chief of the Portland District Plant Maintenance Section has been with the dredge throughout its life. Read More
On April 19 Uljanik shipyard delivered the self-propelled cutter suction dredge Ferno de Magalhes to Jan De Nul Luxembourg S.A. a Jan de Nul Group Company. Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has been awarded a number of contracts in Nigeria with a total value of approximately 90 million. Read More
On Friday June 17 Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed legislation that will allow the Corps of Engineers to dredge the Kennebec River and place dredged material in an offshore site near Popham Beach. Read More
Ingram Industries Inc. of Nashville Tennessee and Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel Co. of Pine Bluff Arkansas announced July 13 that they have agreed for Ingram to sell its Ingram Materials LLC subsidiary to Pine Bluff. Read More
On July 12 the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) of Kenya stopped the dredging of Likoni channel because of alleged breach of environmental constraints.Iddi Mambo chairman of the Coast Development Transparency Initiative (Codeti) informed NEMA that waste that was to have been discharged 50 miles at sea by Contractor Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors was seen floating near shore. Read More
