At the beginning of January Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. had financing in place and approval from its board to offer Dockwise Ltd. an all-cash voluntary public offer for all its issued and outstanding ordinary shares. Boskalis scheduled the delivery of the offer to Dockwise for January 21. 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.
Siemens Drive Technologies has kicked off its initiative to highlight the energy efficiency benefits of its comprehensive and custom engineered product and service offerings including gearboxes couplings motors and drives through a single source. Siemens said the program offers end users EPCs and OEMs the ability to reduce operational costs and improve engineering effectiveness. Read More
GIW Industries announced a new working partnership with Hagler Systems. The resulting partnership will be developed and released as Engineered Solutions powered by Hagler Systems and GIW Industries. Read More
The National Waterways Conference will hold its Legislative Summit on March 12 and 13 at the Madison Hotel in Washington D.C. Read More
Highlights from dredging news of 1978 1983 1993 2003 and 2008 Read More
Smoky ash is no longer thick in the air of Chiles Northern Patagonia but the town of Chaitn is still coping with the aftereffects of the explosion of its namesake volcano nearly five years ago. Read More
In November 2012 R.E. Staite Engineering Inc. was doing maintenance dredging in Lower Newport Bay California. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District held a christening ceremony for the survey vessel Swart on November 30 at the Engineer Repair Yard in Wilmington North Carolina. Read More
On January 23 the Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) released a statement urging the U.S. Senate to approve legislation that provides financial aid to the hurricane-damaged East Coast. Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has completed emergency dredging on the C&D Canal using the clamshell dredges 51 and 52 and transporting the shoal material to Poplar Island in Chesapeake Bay. The dredges removed 721000 cubic yards of material in the final weeks of 2012 and beginning weeks of 2013 in response to shoaling that was restricting ship traffic starting in November. Read More
