On May 14, the Great Lakes Dredging Team (GLDT) Technical Committee held a meeting to review the 2018-2019 workplan, including discussion of a draft of the Regional Beneficial Use Testing… Read More
Projects
In April, Norfolk Dredging Company (NDC) finished dredging 2.6 million cubic yards from the shipping channels leading to the Port of Baltimore. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) completed the $63 million deepening and widening of Big Bend Channel in April, more than a year ahead of schedule. Work started in… Read More
Maintenance dredging at the Brazilian Port of Rio Grande, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, is 65 percent complete, said Fernando Estima, superintendent at local state-owned port… Read More
On April 5, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District reached a project milestone on the Boston Harbor Navigation Improvement Project, removing 4 million cubic yards of dredge… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District held a conference call on April 26 to provide an update on the progress of the Navigation Improvement Study for the Miami… Read More
The Rio de la Plata Port Administrator Commission (CARP), a bi-national commission between Argentina and Uruguay, said in late February it completed phase one of a deepening and maintenance dredging… Read More
Argentinian Port Administrator Consorcio Portuario Regional de Mar del Plata (CPRM) plans to use its own money to fund an estimated $3 million US dredging project, which is expected for… Read More
Mexican state-owned port administrator Administración Portuaria Integral de Manzanillo S.A, also known as (API Manzanillo), said in late April it plans to “immediately” dredge the facility’s access and secondary channels… Read More
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded two contracts in Indonesia. On the island of Sulawesi, Boskalis will expand the Makassar New Port container terminal, and on the island… Read More
