Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation on September 19 announced the receipt of several dredging contract awards totaling $177 million. The awarded work includes: • Orange Beach, Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores… Read More
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Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the nation’s largest provider of dredging services, announced this month a whopping $261.3 million in new contract awards. The largest share of that… Read More
Louisiana now has at least three potential new terminals being explored for the Lower Mississippi River below New Orleans. The Port of New Orleans Board of Commissioners earlier this month… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded the first contract to jumpstart the deepening of the Mississippi River Ship Channel from Baton Rouge, La., to the Gulf of Mexico… Read More
Mariners and anglers lucky enough to have visited the Chandeleur Sound by way of Baptiste Collette late this summer likely beheld an island of avian wonder as they left the… Read More
Plenty of people have a lifelong dream, but few go on to achieve it. As of August 8, Joey Cargol, a Gretna, La., resident and river pilot known on the… Read More
The 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans carried the theme “fresh water as a source of life.” It’s a maxim borne out over the years in south Louisiana by the… Read More
The Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council and The Coal Institute held the annual World Trade & Transport Conference February 20 at the Omni Royal Orleans hotel in New Orleans’… Read More
Speaking to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee during an October 23 hearing, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, chief of engineers of the U.S. Army and commanding general of the… Read More
Visitors to the Pass A’Loutre Wildlife Management Area to the south and east of Head of Passes on the Lower Mississippi River will have to watch where they step this… Read More
