Morgan City, La.-based Conrad Shipyard held a keel-laying ceremony April 16 for the 6,500-cubic-yard trailing suction hopper dredge the company is building for Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD)… 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.
The Memphis Engineer District expects to complete a levee system along the Mississippi River in far western Kentucky and northwest Tennessee within in a little more than two years as… Read More
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) will hold its annual Dredging Summit June 15-17, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily. This year, the event will be held virtually via Zoom… Read More
Reserve, La.-based DSC Dredge has announced upgrades to its long-running Moray class dredge, which has been in production for more than 20 years. The Moray design, which features a swinging… Read More
Custom Dredge Works (CDW), based in Topeka, Kan., has announced the launch of a new 14-inch electric chain-ladder cutter suction dredge to mine sand and gravel for Winter Bros. Material… Read More
The St. Louis Engineer District and the city of Cape Girardeau, Mo., celebrated the completion of nearly $20 million and 15 years of river wall improvement projects in downtown Cape… Read More
Reserve, La.-based DSC Dredge has announced a new addition to its most-purchased product of the past year, the Marlin Class dredge. The Marlin Class dredge is a highly customizable, underwater… Read More
As one of the dredge contractors working on the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, Weeks Marine crewmembers are used to dredging up plenty of sand and other material as the Savannah… Read More
Supreme Manufacturing Inc. has been awarded a contract to build a new clamshell dredge for an eastern Long Island sand and gravel producer. The MD-13 gantry-style dredge has a 13-cubic-yard… Read More
Crews have completed the cofferdam at the Kentucky Lock Addition Project, a milestone in preparing for downstream excavation work that will include construction of the remaining portion of the new… Read More
