Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc., Panama City, Fla., announced last week that it had started cutting steel for the 356’x79’6″x27’3″ R.B. Weeks, a new trailing suction hopper dredge for Weeks Marine Inc. The contract to build the dredge was signed four months months ago.
Designed by Royal IHC, the new vessel will be built at Eastern’s Allanton, Fla., shipyard. The dredge, which will have a hopper capacity of 8,550 cu. yds., is the second trailing suction hopper dredge project for Weeks Marine. The