Weeks Marine is working under a $13.2 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District to dredge sand from offshore and place it on North… 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.
Approximately 80,000 cubic yards of silt and sand is being removed from two 60-foot wide federal channels, Big Thorofare and Twitch Cove in Maryland. Vortex Marine Construction Inc. Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District announced the Brevard County Shore Protection Project got underway on February 1. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company was awarded… Read More
Dredging of the Lower Harbor of the New Bedford Harbor is underway with a $14.9 contract awarded to Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting of Quincy, Massachusetts. The harbor… Read More
City of Destin officials are planning to tag onto an existing dredging operation, the Norriego Point Stabilization, to replenish the severely eroded beach on Destin’s Holiday Isle. Moving… Read More
Mobile Dredging & Video Pipe Inc. (MDVP) of Chester, Pennsylvania, purchased a Seafloor Systems EchoBoat-ASV™ last September. Referring to the ASV as a “drone boat”, Project Manager… Read More
The Fehmarnbelt road and rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany will be the largest infrastructure construction ever built in Denmark. To achieve this monumental work, the first step… Read More
Representatives of the Mississippi Valley Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 28 and March 1 for the organization’s 2018… Read More
On February 12, the Trump administration released details for the fiscal year 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program. The budget provides $4.785 billion in discretionary funding for… Read More
Although most of the waterways-related items in President Trump’s proposed budget dismayed the towing industry and its allies and are unlikely to survive in Congress, the budget did give… Read More
