Great Lakes receives $164M in awarded work

Oak Brook-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp., a large provider of dredging services in the U.S., announced the receipt of several major dredging awards totaling $164 million.

The awarded work includes: The Long Beach project (Coastal Protection, New York, $54.4 million); the Myrtle Beach project (Coastal Protection, South Carolina, $34.8 million); the Nags Head Beach project (Coastal Protection, North Carolina, $34.7 million); the Chesapeake Beach project (Coastal Protection, Maryland, $4.8 million); the Corpus Christi La Quinta Channel Widening project (Capital, Texas, $21.0 million) and the Delaware River Deepening Variation Order (Capital, Delaware, $14.3 million).

The scope of work for the four coastal protection projects includes nourishment of beach fronts with sand excavated from offshore borrow which is then used to rebuild dunes and restore the shorelines eroded by winter storms. The projects will be executed from June 2018 through May 2019 and will be performed with minimal disruption to the local communities with a view to increasing the resilience of our coastal environments to challenges from rising sea levels.

The two shipping access channel widening and deepening projects are part of the ongoing effort to make U.S. ports capable of receiving the larger vessels now coming through the expanded Panama Canal and supporting our nation's growing energy exports.

"We are pleased to announce these significant coastal protection and capital dredging awards for our company. The projects are a great addition to our current backlog which includes the deepening and coastal protection projects ongoing in Charleston where three of our largest dredges are engaged and on the Gulf Coast where the Ellis Island and Liberty Island are working. This solidifies our position as the nation's leading dredging contractor," said Dredging President David Simonelli.