Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge World Lens by WTCI Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baltimores-francis-scott-key-bridge/id1731053560?i=1000650707030 For more reporting about the impact of the bridge collapse on American supply chain and logistics, see this Washington Post article: The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday cut off access to much of the city’s port… Read More
To re-open the Port of Baltimore to vessel traffic, authorities will need to clear the shipping channel. To clear the shipping channel, the massive, stuck cargo ship will need to be freed. For the ship to be freed, the fallen steel bridge, weighing it down, will need to be removed. Recovery from disaster is complex and cumbersome…. Read More
The iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed into the Patapsco River on Tuesday, one of several notable disasters in the United States involving ships or barges colliding with bridges. From 1960 to 2015, there were 18 major bridge collapses that took place in the country Baltimore, in the United States, witnessed a devastating… Read More
Weeks Marine selects Arc Surveying & Mapping to provide hydrographic and geophysical surveying services after winning $62 million Alabama Harbor Deepening & Widening Dredging Project. Weeks Marine Inc., Covington, Louisiana, has contracted with Arc Surveying & Mapping, Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida to provide hydrographic and geophysical surveying services after the awarded of a $62,055,622 ACOE… Read More
Danish shipping giant Maersk on Tuesday confirmed it had chartered the container ship which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the U.S. city of Baltimore in the early hours of the morning. The bridge across the Patapsco River partially collapsed following the incident, which occurred around 1:35 a.m. local time Tuesday, according to local officials. A rescue operation… Read More
The Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) recently presented State, Coastal and Ocean Leadership awards to four individuals who have worked for several years to assure both safety and accessibility on state waterways and the protections and restoration of critical coastal habitats, parks and refuges. UCI Director Tony MacDonald honored the recipients at a March… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District welcomed Craig Carrington as the new deputy district engineer March 26 during an Assumption of Responsibility Ceremony at the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee. The deputy district engineer serves as the senior civilian in the organization and is responsible for directing water resource, navigation and regulatory… Read More
Sunrise Wind today received its Record of Decision (RoD) from the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), crossing a critical milestone in the federal environmental review process for the offshore wind project serving New York. Additionally, Ørsted and Eversource today announced they have jointly taken a final investment decision on… Read More
Weeks Marine selects Arc Surveying & Mapping to provide hydrographic and geophysical surveying services after winning $62 million Alabama Harbor Deepening & Widening Dredging Project. Weeks Marine Inc., Covington, Louisiana, has contracted with Arc Surveying & Mapping, Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida to provide hydrographic and geophysical surveying services after the awarded of a $62,055,622 ACOE… Read More
Description: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently completed an $11 million project that widened the beach to protect Montauk properties from rising oceans. Dredging and dumping sand on beaches is expensive, and it’s only a temporary measure — but it remains the preferred strategy, despite the costs. This Express Sessions event will discuss beach… Read More
Pacific Chapter The Pacific Chapter of WEDA represents the West Coast of the United States, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, and Canada: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba. Pacific Chapter WEDA Fall 2024 Meeting When: Wednesday, October 23rd -to- Friday, October 25, 2024 Where: The Porter Curio… Read More
Washington, DC – The American Shore & Beach Preservation Association invites coastal advocates and stakeholders to join the ASBPA Coastal Summit 2024 “Shaping Coastal Futures: Implementing Science-Based Resilience Policies” from Tuesday, March 26th to Thursday, March 28th at the National Association of Counties Building in Washington, DC. The Coastal Summit provides a platform to advocate for… Read More
Please join us April 3, 2024 from 10:00-12:00 EST for an informational webinar regarding monitoring, modeling, and anticipating changes in shoaling patterns based on climate change and coastal processes: Implications for Great Lakes navigation system maintenance. We have several excellent speakers from NOAA and USACE lined up to discuss ice cover trends in the Great… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District welcomed Craig Carrington as the new deputy district engineer March 26 during an Assumption of Responsibility Ceremony at the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee. The deputy district engineer serves as the senior civilian in the organization and is responsible for directing water resource, navigation and regulatory… Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On Friday, March 22, 2024, Houston Mayor John Whitmire administered the oath of office to Thomas Jones, Jr., to serve a two-year term as a Port Commissioner of the Port of Houston Authority. Commissioner Jones will attend his first Port Commission meeting in this capacity on Tuesday, March 26. “Port Houston is the busiest… Read More
Today, the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) selected new officers with the election of Walter J. Leger Jr. to serve as Board Chairman, James J. Carter Jr. as Vice Chairman, and Sharonda R. Williams as Secretary-Treasurer for a nine-month term. With the alignment of the Port NOLA and the… Read More
The Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA) today announced four CEOs to join the organization’s Board of Directors: Wes Bordelon, Chief Executive Officer, Bordelon Marine; Stacy Jo Stanley, Chief Executive Officer, Offshore Oil Services, ; David Dantin, Chief Executive Officer, Odyssea Marine; and Lasse Petterson, Chief Executive Officer, Great Lakes Dredge and With the addition of… Read More
Sunrise Wind today received its Record of Decision (RoD) from the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), crossing a critical milestone in the federal environmental review process for the offshore wind project serving New York. Additionally, Ørsted and Eversource today announced they have jointly taken a final investment decision on… Read More
The Biden-Harris administration today announced the Department of the Interior’s approval of the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project – the nation’s seventh approval of a commercial-scale offshore wind project under President Biden’s leadership. These seven projects have the potential to provide more than 8 gigawatts of clean, renewable energy to power roughly 3 million homes,… Read More
Selection will help advance Ørsted’s e-methanol facility in Texas, decarbonize hard-to-electrify maritime sector, and create U.S. clean energy jobs in new industry HOUSTON – March 25, 2024 – Ørsted, a leading U.S. clean energy developer, announced today it has been selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award… Read More
In another step by the Biden-Harris administration to support the growing momentum across America for a clean energy economy, the Department of the Interior today announced its proposal for a second offshore wind energy auction in the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed lease sale includes four areas offshore Louisiana and Texas, totaling 410,060 acres, which… Read More
To re-open the Port of Baltimore to vessel traffic, authorities will need to clear the shipping channel. To clear the shipping channel, the massive, stuck cargo ship will need to be freed. For the ship to be freed, the fallen steel bridge, weighing it down, will need to be removed. Recovery from disaster is complex and cumbersome…. Read More
South Carolina Ports seamlessly handled big ships and big move counts at Wando Welch Terminal as imports trend back up. The SC Ports team and maritime community recently moved 4,474 containers on and off the ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Mount Olympus vessel. This marked one of the highest move counts ever on a vessel at… Read More
Georgia officials picked up a key congressional endorsement Monday as they seek a federal study on whether the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah should be deepened again following a harbor expansion that was completed in 2022 and cost nearly $1 billion. U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican and chairman of the House Transportation and… Read More
The iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed into the Patapsco River on Tuesday, one of several notable disasters in the United States involving ships or barges colliding with bridges. From 1960 to 2015, there were 18 major bridge collapses that took place in the country Baltimore, in the United States, witnessed a devastating… Read More
Nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling withdrawing protections for about half the streams and wetlands in Colorado, Western Slope Democrats have introduced a bill that would fill the regulatory vacuum created by the decision. House Bill 1379 would create a state-run permit system to regulate when developers can dig up… Read More
When a winter storm blew through Cape Cod in February, rising tides sliced and diced Sandwich’s Town Neck Beach – destroying much of the protective sand dunes that were dredged from the Cape Cod Canal. Without “big beach and perpetual nourishment,” erosion will continue to carve out north-facing beaches, affecting residential and infrastructure properties, said Sandwich Assistant Town Manager Heather Harper. “As… Read More
A nearly $2 million project to restore the road to Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Park is complete, which allowed reopening of the Santa Barbara county park. More than a year after being closed by storm damage, the key access road to a Central Coast beach has been repaired, and reopened. The big January, 2023 closed the… Read More
Collier County’s FEMA-funded project to restore the beach and dunes lost to Hurricane Ian is forecast to be completed a couple of months later than originally projected. The first phase – the county’s emergency beach berm re-nourishment program, which saw 300,000 cubic yards of sand added to Naples area beaches (from Barefoot to Marco Island)… Read More
Master Boat Builders Inc., Coden, Ala., has successfully delivered the 109′ tug Tortuga, the latest tugboat to join Seaside LNG/Polaris New Energy’s expanding fleet. The Tortuga will operate out of Jacksonville, Fla., alongside her sister vessel, Polaris. “Seaside LNG/Polaris New Energy is leading the way in LNG maritime distribution, with the largest LNG bunker fleet in the country,” Garrett Rice, president of… Read More
Austal USA has launched a new large unmanned surface vehicle (USV) designed for ocean mapping and maritime domain awareness missions. The 65-foot (20-metre) USV was developed by unmanned systems specialist Saildrone. The vessel is powered by wind energy, solar energy, and a diesel generator for long-range, long-endurance missions in the open ocean. Austal is currently… Read More
Mobile, Ala. – Austal USA delivered the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36) to the U.S. Navy March 1, 2024. Kingsville is the 18th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) delivered by the company and the first U.S. Navy vessel to be named after the Texas city home to Naval Air Station Kingsville and directly tied to the… Read More
Technology group Wärtsilä has entered into a collaboration agreement with Seattle, USA based naval architecture and marine engineering firm, Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG), to further develop EBDG’s Clean Harbor Alternative Mobile Power (CHAMP) Barge design. Featuring Wärtsilä’s methanol engine technology, the collaboration introduces a cost-effective solution to reduce emissions from large vessels in situations… Read More
Transport by air and sea depends on engines that usually run on fossil fuels, increasing CO₂ emissions. Even though road transport emissions remain more significant, shipping and aviation account for 12% and 11%, respectively, according to an analysis by GlobalData, Offshore Technology Focus’s parent company. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) aviation tracking data found that around half of… Read More
There are over 360 commercial ports in the U.S. alone, and more than 800 ports across the globe. Ports serve as pivotal nodes in the United States’ supply chain infrastructure, particularly in their specialized roles of cargo handling and container handling at dedicated container terminals. These functions are crucial for the smooth operation of logistics and manufacturing sectors. Many American… Read More
Absent intervention, these near-term projects are increasingly at risk of failing,” the governors wrote. Offshore wind projects need more federal funding and planning assistance to ensure they get built, the Democratic governors of six northeastern states told the Biden administration, warning that a cornerstone of the climate change fight could be in jeopardy. President Joe… Read More
Spanish Pass Louisiana’s largest ridge and marsh restoration project ever constructed is complete! Learn more about the project and the work it took to get it done. Thanks to our partners at Weeks Marine, Inc., Baird & Associates, Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, and others for their support on this project!
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District welcomed Craig Carrington as the new deputy district engineer March 26 during an Assumption of Responsibility Ceremony at the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee. The deputy district engineer serves as the senior civilian in the organization and is responsible for directing water resource, navigation and regulatory… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District reports that the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget request includes more than $122 million in federal funding for the district’s civil works program. The request is part of $7.2 billion in gross discretionary funding for the corps’ worldwide civil works program. The proposed appropriation for the Pittsburgh… Read More
State officials have announced the approval of federal funds by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to advance significant repairs of a damaged coastal project on Fire Island following a series of devastating coastal storms. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers disbursed $3.5 million to its New York District Office to expedite project engineering and… Read More
A beach driving closure in Emerald Isle has been extended for contractors to begin removing dredge equipment throughout the week. Army Corps of Engineers are in the final stages of the dredging project. The contractor was dredging 200-thousand cubic yards of sand out of the nearby waterway crossing at Bogue Inlet. Dredging helps replace the… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District welcomed Craig Carrington as the new deputy district engineer March 26 during an Assumption of Responsibility Ceremony at the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee. The deputy district engineer serves as the senior civilian in the organization and is responsible for directing water resource, navigation and regulatory… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District reports that the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget request includes more than $122 million in federal funding for the district’s civil works program. The request is part of $7.2 billion in gross discretionary funding for the corps’ worldwide civil works program. The proposed appropriation for the Pittsburgh… Read More
State officials have announced the approval of federal funds by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to advance significant repairs of a damaged coastal project on Fire Island following a series of devastating coastal storms. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers disbursed $3.5 million to its New York District Office to expedite project engineering and… Read More
A beach driving closure in Emerald Isle has been extended for contractors to begin removing dredge equipment throughout the week. Army Corps of Engineers are in the final stages of the dredging project. The contractor was dredging 200-thousand cubic yards of sand out of the nearby waterway crossing at Bogue Inlet. Dredging helps replace the… Read More
Transport by air and sea depends on engines that usually run on fossil fuels, increasing CO₂ emissions. Even though road transport emissions remain more significant, shipping and aviation account for 12% and 11%, respectively, according to an analysis by GlobalData, Offshore Technology Focus’s parent company. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) aviation tracking data found that around half of… Read More
GLDD recently launched the Cape Hatteras and the Cape Canaveral Damen 3013 Multicats, that were built at Conrad shipyard. DredgeWire sat down with Chris Gunsten, Senior VP of Project Services & Fleet Engineering to discuss their new Damen 3013 Multicats. DW: Why did GLDD not build their own Multicats? CG: Over many years GLDD has… Read More
There are over 360 commercial ports in the U.S. alone, and more than 800 ports across the globe. Ports serve as pivotal nodes in the United States’ supply chain infrastructure, particularly in their specialized roles of cargo handling and container handling at dedicated container terminals. These functions are crucial for the smooth operation of logistics and manufacturing sectors. Many American… Read More