Damen placed second in the maritime & aviation sector in this year’s MT500 rankings of the top 500 companies and institutions in the Netherlands. It also… Read More
News
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.
The dredging contractor Dutch Dredging of the Netherlands has added two new vessels to its fleet, the Papillon and the Fregate. The vessels were delivered to… Read More
The Panama Canal reached a new milestone with the transit of four liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships with beams of up to 160 feet in a single day through the… Read More
Van Oord and Dredging International, a DEME Group subsidiary, have been awarded a contract to deepen and widen a 62-kilometer (38-mile) section… Read More
Dubuque Barge & Fleeting Services Company of Iowa has been awarded a $7.475 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District for the Corps Island Dredged… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has begun using a biofuel blend for its trailing suction hopper dredge Prins der Nederlanden and previously used a B50 biofuel… Read More
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) has issued its first call for papers for its 2019 Dredging Summit & Expo to be held June 4 to 7 at the Hilton Chicago… Read More
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is accepting project ideas for evaluation and possible inclusion in the Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast, which will be submitted… Read More
Van Oord’s Debris Removal Platform has won the 2018 International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) Safety Award that… Read More
The International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) has released both the 2017 edition of Dredging in Figures and the IADC Annual Report 2017. Dredging in Figures… Read More
