In my last column I criticised the manning of a tug – not because the crew were female, but because there were only two of them. My friend Ron Burchett kindly responded and pointed out that the tugs involved in the job I was describing always travel in pairs for mutual support. This no doubt […]
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The Galveston Engineer District (SWG) has awarded Callan Marine Ltd., Galveston, Texas, a $102,896,306 firm-fixed-price contract for pipeline dredging. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas, with an estimated completion date of July 11, 2025. Fiscal 2023 civil construction funds; fiscal 2023 civil operation and maintenance funds; and fiscal 2023 Port of Corpus Christi funds, in the amount of $102,896,306 were obligated at the...
Excessive speed during a bow-to-bow harbour-assist manoeuvre led to the grounding of a tug in Texas’ Corpus Christi Ship Channel last year, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said recently. It is the second marine casualty the NTSB investigated in 2022 caused by excessive speed in...
Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has been awarded a $139 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work on the third phase of the Port of Corpus Christi ship channel improvement project.
The four-phase, $651 million infrastructure project will increase the channel’s depth to 54 feet from 47 feet and widen it to 530 feet, from its current width of 400 feet.
The increase will allow more than one vessel to pass through the channel at the same time, as well as accommodate...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-corpus-christis-139m-channel-expansion-contract-awarded
The Port of Corpus Christi and the Texas General Land Office (GLO) have announced an agreement to develop carbon storage solutions in the Coastal Bend region along the Gulf of Mexico.
The partnership aims to build infrastructure that will capture and permanently store carbon dioxide produced during oil and natural gas development in the Corpus Christi area, where dozens of industrial, petrochemical and refining facilities are located.
“We have a high density of industrial CO2 target sources, a...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-of-corpus-christi-aims-to-be-large-scale-carbon-storage-hub
Houston-based infrastructure specialist Buckeye Partners has confirmed that crude oil export operations have commenced at the second deepwater dock at South Texas Gateway ..
Coast Guard and salvage crews recovered the bodies of the two remaining crewmembers Monday after recovering a portion of the dredging vessel Waymon L Boyd from the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in Corpus Christi, Texas.
All missing crewmembers are now accounted for and the families have been notified.
“We can confirm that all four missing crewmen have been recovered,” said Mark Stauffer, CEO, Orion Marine Group. “We are grateful to the U.S. Coast Guard, the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, and the...
The bodies of all four dredging vessel crew members killed in Friday’s fire in the ship channel at the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas have been recovered.
The Coast Guard said two bodies were found when a portion of the Waymon L. Boyd was recovered from the channel Monday. Two others were recovered Saturday.
“We can confirm that all four missing crewmen have been recovered,” Orion Marine Group CEO Mark Stauffer said in a statement Monday afternoon. “We are grateful to the U.S. Coast Guard, the...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/four-bodies-recovered-following-corpus-christi-channel-fire
With the deepening and widening of many US seaports and entrance channels, and an increasing number of beneficial use dredging projects, Texas-based marine services ..
Additional funds for the Port of Corpus Christi’s Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP) announced.