This year’s World Dredging Congress and Exhibition (WODCON), held in San Diego June 23–27, featured a discussion by a panel of dredging contractor executives. The panel included Fred Paup,… Read More
Weeks Marine
The New Orleans Engineer District has awarded a $17.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to Covington, La.-based Weeks Marine LLC for a fully crewed and equipped cutterhead dredge to work near the… Read More
Weeks Marine Inc. announced January 1 it has been acquired by Kiewit Corporation for an undisclosed amount. The transaction included Weeks subsidiaries Healy Tibbitts Builders Inc., McNally International Inc. Read More
The extreme drought impacting the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee river valleys continues to translate into troublesome low water conditions—and in some places record lows—on the Western Rivers, with draft… Read More
With the Lower Mississippi River languishing at around 3 feet at the Carrollton Gage and with salt water creeping up from the Gulf of Mexico, the New Orleans… Read More
Representatives from Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Cranford, N.J.-based Weeks Marine Inc. gathered at Eastern’s Allanton Shipyard, near Panama City, Fla., June 17 for the launch of the trailing suction… Read More
On June 17, the port commission of the Port of Houston Authority (Port Houston), meeting in a special session, awarded two of the largest contracts in the organization’s history to… Read More
A sister ship to Weeks Marine’s dredge Magdalen is on the way from Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s Allanton shipyard. The forthcoming dredge R.B. Weeks is expected to be delivered early… Read More
A $102 million project to restore 256 acres of beaches and dunes and 143 acres of marsh is taking shape on a barrier island just east of Grand Isle,… Read More
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) held its annual Dredging Summit virtually June 15–17, during which the organization presented its Environmental Excellence Awards. WEDA named two award winners, one for… Read More
