Dutch design firm to help develop new hopper dredger for US Army Corps of Engineers

Vessel construction at some of the Florida facilities of the Eastern Shipbuilding Group

Florida shipbuilder the Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Netherlands-based marine engineering company Royal IHC have formed a strategic partnership with the objective of designing and constructing a highly automated, medium hopper dredger for use by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The dredger will be built at Eastern Shipbuilding’s Allanton and Port St Joe facilities. […]

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New agreement calls for channel improvement works in Unalaska

The city government of Unalaska in Alaska and the US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Alaska District have entered into an agreement stipulating channel improvement works. The agreement requires both parties to provide a 600-by-600-foot (182-by-182-metre) dredged channel with a depth of minus 58...

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VESSEL REVIEW | Dashields – Workboat to support US Army Corps of Engineers’ waterway maintenance duties

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) recently took delivery of a new river maintenance workboat from Alabama-based boatbuilder Silver Ships. Dashields is the second in a series of three landing craft workboats built by Silver Ships for the USACE Pittsburgh District, the first being the 2022-built Allegheny River. The vessels will support the Pittsburgh […]

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Marine Projects Vessel News Roundup | August 2 – New Chinese offshore wind crane ship, Russian inland dredger orders and more

Two Chinese yards have completed deliveries of an offshore installation ship and a large river and coastal dredger while US and Russian operators have placed orders for n ..

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Contract awarded for Delaware River maintenance dredging

The US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Philadelphia District has awarded a US$12.9 million contract to Seaward Marine Corporation of Norfolk, Virginia, to conduct ..

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Ohio River channel maintenance begins near Evansville, Indiana

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District has begun annual channel maintenance dredging on the Ohio River, which will likely include maintenance dredging ..

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VESSEL REVIEW | R. B. Weeks – Second large hopper dredger for New Jersey marine contractor

Cranford, New Jersey-based marine projects company Weeks Marine (WMI) recently took delivery of a new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) built by the Eastern Shipbuil ..

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VESSEL REVIEW | New lake patrol craft for US Army Corps of Engineers

Park rangers at Lake Cumberland in southeastern Kentucky are now better equipped to assist and educate visitors and enforce regulations with the purchase of a new patrol ..

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VESSEL REVIEW | Miss Katie – Shallow-draught dredger built for North Carolina’s Outer Banks islands

Conrad Shipyard of Louisiana recently delivered a new shallow-draught, split-hull hopper dredger to Greenville, North Carolina-based marine projects company EJE Dredging ..

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