In December the Comision Administradora del Rio de la Plata (CARP) awarded Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) a 5-year contract for the capital and maintenance dredging of the Martín García channel located between Uruguay and Argentina in the… Read More
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Recent inland waterways industry news, covering the Mississippi River, Ohio River, Missouri River, Tennessee River, Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and more. Articles on economic, environmental and logistic advantages of barge shipping, plus other stories pertaining to locks and dams and other waterway infrastructure.
This past August Penta-Ocean Construction Co. Ltd. received an order for the Port Works of Package 1.2 of Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project in Bangladesh from Sumitomo Corporation. The contract sum is approximately 162 billion… Read More
In mid-October the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) held a ceremony for the launch of the construction of the AmadorCruise Port which will be a completely new cruise terminal. The project will cost… Read More
Cormagdalena Colombia’s river management authority has requested the country’s finance ministry as well as the nation’s planning department DNP to make agile the process of closing a new contract for the… Read More
The Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Works (MTOP) said in late November it has set a commission to evaluate the concession contract of Turkish port operator Yillport which operates the Port of… Read More
Jochen Rohr CEO of Aggregate Dredge Solutions has formed a new company called JR Bagger & Technik GmbH in Speyer Germany. This venture creates an all-new operation in Germany to complement Aggregate Dredge Solutions… Read More
Damen Shipyards Group has opened Damen’s China Support Company in Shanghai to support commercial involvement and development in the region. John Zhou is managing director of the new company and… Read More
Devon Carlock vice president of Safety & Government Relations at Cottrell Contracting Corporation of Chesapeake Virginia reports that Cottrell finished 2017 with no loss time due to illness or injury. Read More
Damen Shipyards Group has signed a contract with Group Ocean of Canada for the delivery of two Modular Multi Cats 1205 that will be used as dredging support vessels on… Read More
Subsea technology company Seatools has completed the development manufacturing and testing of two 250-liter subsea pressure compensators for Bakker Sliedrecht. The ultra-long life compensators will be applied to 1.7 MW… Read More
