Angela Y. Premo was honored by the Dredging Contractors of America on May 25 with the William R. Murden Lifetime Public Service award. She retired on March 2 2011 from a 33-year career in the Corps of Engineers devoted mainly to dredging and navigation projects and programs. Read More
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Weeks Marine Inc. Inc. (WMI) is building two new dredges an 8500 cubic yard hopper dredge Weeks 475; and an ocean-class 30-inch hydraulic cutter suction dredge Weeks 314.The new dredges represent an investment of more than $125 million and the creation of 125 permanent well-paying jobs according to Richard S. Weeks WMI president. Read More
A GIW Industries MDX slurry pump has nearly doubled the wear life of its wet ends which has cut maintenance downtime in half at the Kinross Fort Knox mine in Fairbanks Alaska. Read More
Norfolk Dredging Companys 10000 horsepower dredge Charleston is deepening five miles of the Navy channel in the Elizabeth River from Lamberts Point to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth Virginia. The 24-inch discharge line which began at 21000 feet long will eventually stretch for 50000 feet from the dredge to the Norfolk Districts Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area in Portsmouth. Read More
Jon Berger ceo and director of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock LLC described the companys activities and goals to the 2011 Deutsche Bank Global Industrials and Basic Materials Conference on June 16. Read More
Damen Dredging has provided DOP pumps and special cutters to dredging contractor Martens & van Oord for a dredging project in Rotterdam where the area is riddled with 2500 pilings and the material to be dredged is a heavy clay. Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) was the apparent low bidder on the Pelican Island Barataria Shoreline Restoration project on the coast of Plaquemines Parish Louisiana. Read More
A GIW Industries MDX slurry pump has nearly doubled the wear life of its wet ends which has cut maintenance downtime in half at the Kinross Fort Knox mine in Fairbanks Alaska. Read More
Bids were opened on July 14 for the West Belle Pass Barrier Headland and Marsh Creation project. Project manager Kenneth Bahlinger of Louisiana Office of Coastal Restoration told IDR on July 19 that the bids were being analyzed and that he anticipates a mid-August award and Notice to Proceed. Read More
Jon Berger ceo and director of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock LLC described the companys activities and goals to the 2011 Deutsche Bank Global Industrials and Basic Materials Conference on June 16. Read More
