The Marsh Lake environmental restoration project achieved a major milestone yesterday, when President Barack Obama signed the Water Resource Reform and Development Act of 2014 into law. This act, last passed in 2007, provides authorization for development of projects by the U.S. Army Corps of Engine
Finland’s Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s solutions and services provider, has signed an extensive three-year services supply agreement with the Norwegian DOF Group in the end of April 2014.
Yesterday, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), made the following statement after attending the President Obama’s signing of the Water Resources and Reform Development Act (WRRDA) into law. Vitter was the lead Senate Republican on the c
The dredging operation at the heavily silted Calmay River has so far excavated some 3,600 cubic meters of silt and sediment equivalent to 224 truckloads after just four weeks. This was bared during a meeting called by Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez with officials of the Department of Public Work
UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has visited the construction site of the major expansion project currently underway at the Port of Liverpool, which is being developed by Peel Ports, one of the UK’s largest port groups. The £300 million Liverpool2 investment program will create the most central dee
Rohr Sand und Kies, based in Waldsee near Speyer in Germany, received their second fully electric driven ISD300 from IDRECO BV. Two years ago Rohr bought their first deep dredger from IDRECO for their plant in Bensheim. After one year of working with the new IDRECO deep suction dredger, the decision
A team in the R&D department of leading international classification society Bureau Veritas, working with Brazil’s Petrobras, has been awarded the prestigious OMAE 2013 Best Paper of Offshore Technology Symposium for its paper detailing the ground breaking research into second-order rolling of FLNGs
The main goal of the Keansburg beach replenishment program was to create a wider, higher beach and to restore the dunes. The USACE’s New York District placed nearly one million cubic yards of sand onto three miles of shoreline along Raritan Bay to repair and restore the previously-engineered beach a
Aubin Subsea has presented the first video from the LiquiBuoy subsea lifting trial. The trial confirmed that the LiquiBuoy lifting system can offer a new level of control and precision when manoeuvring structures subsea. The ability to instantaneously control and adapt buoyancy levels rendering stru
Governor Deval Patrick applauded the signing by President Barack Obama of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, a bill that provides federal funds to support the $310 million Boston Harbor Dredging Project. According to the Army Corps of Engineers, dredging Boston Harbor will double volume
SEAMEC Ltd., one of India’s leading providers of Diving Support Vessels (DSVs) for the offshore oilfield industry, has chosen Sonardyne acoustic position reference technology to support its dynamic positioning operations. The company has upgraded the Ranger 1 system installed on the SEAMEC Princess
SEAMEC Ltd., one of India’s leading providers of Diving Support Vessels for the offshore oilfield industry, has once again chosen Sonardyne acoustic position reference technology to support it dynamic positioning operations. The company has upgraded the Ranger 1 system installed on the SEAMEC Prince
The Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, diversion channel project achieved another milestone yesterday, when President Barack Obama signed the Water Resource Reform and Development Act of 2014 into law, authorizing construction of the project. This act, last passed in 2000 and 2007, provides au
A Cashmere developer and a contractor he hired have entered into a settlement agreement with the Washington Department of Ecology resolving their appeal of a restoration order and civil penalties associated with unpermitted excavation work in Mission Creek. In November 2013, developer George N. Vali
