On September 28 the Jan De Nul Group signed a contract with the Peruvian Government to deepen the Port of Callao entrance channel from the existing 14 meters (46 feet)… Read More
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The WEDA Gulf Coast Chapter will meet in New Orleans at the Hotel Monteleone on November 2 and 3 (Tuesday and Wednesday). There will be a tour of the Inner… Read More
Douglas B. Mackie has stepped down as president and chief executive officer of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company and Johathan Berger has been appointed by the board of directros as chief executive officer. Deborah A. Wensel has resigned as chief financial officer and treasurer of the company and will assist in the transition as consultant until the end of the year. Bruce J. Biemeck has been appointed president and chief financial officer. Read More
BlueView Technologies is partnering with Maritime Security Training Consultants International (MSTCI) to provide fire department dive teams law enforcement maritime emergency response team (MERT) divers and maritime security members with working knowledge of imaging sonar technology and their applications. These skills will assist them in using BlueViews underwater vision systems to assist them in their duties. Read More
On May 19 the Corps of Engineers Portland District christened two new survey boats naming them after Jake Redlinger and Art Elton District employees who had made their mark on the dredging and hydrographic surveying missions of the District. Read More
The Trimble Heavy and Highway Division has released the Trimble SPS852 GNSS modular receiver and SPS552H GNSS heading add-on receiver for marine heavy and highway contractors. Read More
Hemisphere GPS has introduced the Crescent Vector II OEM board and a range of Crescent Vector II GPS compass products: V101 Series VS101 Series and LV101 OEM board. Read More
Tideland Signal has delivered 24 SB-138P channel marker buoys complete with SolaMAX140 lanterns to mark the newly-developed Zakum Islands 80 kilometers (50 miles) off the shore of Abu Dhabi. Read More
On August 16 The Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 posted a draft peer review of the Hudson River Superfund cleanup project in its Web site.A consultant connected with the project asked Ray Bergeron president of Cable Arm Clamshell to comment on several paragraphs in the review. Bergeron has released the comments to International Dredging Review. (See Hudson River Trustees Urge Continued Dredging by David Murray IDR July/August 2010) Read More
By September 8 the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans had provided care to 190 sea turtles losing only three reported Meghan Calhoun of the Institute. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been slowly releasing some of the turtles off the West Coast of Florida she said. Read More
