Economic recovery coastal protection and environment restoration it all starts with dredging.That all-encompassing statement by Bill Hanson says it all.Hanson who is vice president of business development at Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company was among several speakers emphasizing the importance of timely dredging of waterways ports harbors and coastal channels at the National Dredging Meeting May 24 and 25 in Washington D.C. Read More
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Corps hopper Dredge Yaquina turned 30 in June and Mac Robison chief of the Portland District Plant Maintenance Section has been with the dredge throughout its life. Read More
On April 19 Uljanik shipyard delivered the self-propelled cutter suction dredge Ferno de Magalhes to Jan De Nul Luxembourg S.A. a Jan de Nul Group Company. Read More
