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AMEA Power awards contracts for two solar projects in Morocco

AMEA Power has been awarded two solar power projects in Morocco with a total capacity of 72 MW by the Moroccan Agency

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Let’s Talk Safety: Two employees doing barge salvage enter closed compartment and are asphyxiated

Employees #1 and #2 were preparing to salvage a casino barge that was capsized during Hurricane Katrina. The employees were pumping water

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228 HSL Drives Piling at New Orleans Canal Expansion  

Link-Belt Cranes customer, and long-term contractor for flood control projects in Louisiana, B&K Construction, was awarded a $45.5 million contract for storm

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DLM Upgrades Marine, Offshore Cable-Laying Rental Fleet 

Dynamic Load Monitoring (UK) Ltd. (DLM), of Southampton, U.K. has expanded its rental fleet for pre-lay grapnel run (PLGR) and route clearance

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Spring Point Marina adds 17-foot-wide concrete floating dock, creating 1,150 feet of transient dock

Spring Point Marina is located at Point Harbor Marine in South Portland on picturesque Casco Bay, a popular boating destination in Maine.

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ShibataFenderTeam supplied Double Cone Fender Systems for Bandin Oil Terminal in Guinea-Bissau

The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is located in West Africa and borders the Atlantic Ocean. Guinea-Bissau is divided into eight regions and one

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Link-Belt TCC Builds Six-Story Condo in Washington, D.C

Hardesty Concrete Construction, Inc., of Sterling, Va. purchased a Link-Belt 50-ton (51-mt) TCC-500 telescopic crawler crane from distributor Link- Belt Mid-Atlantic of

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Let’s Talk Safety: Employees Exceed Load Limit  in Crane Basket, One Suffers Fatal Head Injury When Crane Tips Over

At approximately 3:15 p.m. on July 27, 1994, Employee #1 and a coworker were told by their supervisor to shear steel plates

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McCarthy Begins Work on Port of Beaumont Main Street Terminal  

New terminal to increase cargo capacity by 15%   McCarthy Building Companies has started construction on Port of Beaumont’s Main Street Terminal

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SFT has equipped special terminal for energy industry in Mexico with cone fender systems  

Altamira is a port city located on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas in southeastern Mexico. Our client, Desmontes

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Bahrain Defense Force receives the world’s first folding workboat  

The military force for the Kingdom of Bahrain has purchased a folding, self-propelled WorkFloat to support its growing naval fleet.   Once

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Let’s Talk Safety: Laborer Slips on Barge, Strikes Head on Deck, Falls Unconscious into Water and Drowns  

A temporary laborer, was working inside port tank #1 of barge moored at a dock, scooping rust into buckets until approximately 12:00

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Offshore Wind Energy Picks Up Speed  

The U.S. government has set ambitious goals for the production of energy from offshore wind turbines. The challenge will be creating the

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New Study from Dodge Construction Network Reveals Digital Transformation Led By Construction Owners  

Increased Engagement in Digital Workflows Suggests Increased Demand for Further Digitization of the Construction Industry   Last February, Dodge Construction Network, in

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Crane Cracks and Fatigue

There is a trend for ports to push their container cranes harder for longer, which can lead to cracks and other fatigue-related

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The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with … Women in Engineering 

Women engineers still are a minority on the job in marine construction, and rarer still in the field, let alone in project

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