Royal Boskalis Westminster nv has acquired three oil- and gas-related contracts for projects in Europe and the Middle East. The total contract value amounts to approximately 100 million. Read More
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Contract Awards December 8 2008 through February 2 2009 Read More
When U.S. Airways flight 1549 crash landed in the Hudson River on January 15 dredging contractor Donjon Marine and industrial diving company Randive Inc. were soon on the spot to stabilize the aircraft which had begun floating downriver right after impact. Weeks Marine was later subcontracted to retrieve the plane from the water. Read More
IHC Merwede has received orders for the construction of two large trailing suction hopper dredges (TSHD) and eight medium-sized cutter suction dredges. The TSHDs will be delivered to the Yangtze Estuary Waterway Administration Bureau in China. Three of the cutter dredges are for the Adani Group in India and five cutter dredgers are for a Chinese client. Read More
Remembering grade school American history classes terms and phrases stay in my mind though I don’t remember the meanings of all of them: Know Nothings Copperheads Taft-Hartley Act 54-40 or… Read More
A construction kick-off ceremony was held on the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet on Thursday December 11. Defense of the Greater New Orleans most vulnerable area from storm surge began Thursday December 11 with the groundbreaking of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) Lake Borgne Surge Barrier Project. Read More
“Connecting the World through Dredging” is the theme of a joint CEDA and WEDA seminar on March 2 at the Panama Canal Authority’s Ascanio Arosemena Complex Panama City. Session topics… Read More
November 4 – 6. WEDA Pacific Chapter annual conference Embassy Suites Hotel San Diego Bay-Downtown 601 Pacific Highway San Diego. The program will include a harbor tour. A call for… Read More
On Wednesday January 28th the US House of Representatives passed H.R. 1 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The bill passed with a vote of 244 - 188 with no Republicans voting for the bill. Read More
A listing of all members of the House of Representatives and how they voted on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1)is on the following web site: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll046.xml…… Read More
