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Waggoner Equipment Rental of Wood River, Illinois, recently added a Link-Belt 120|HT to its crane fleet — its fourth Lin...
06/08/2026

Waggoner Equipment Rental of Wood River, Illinois, recently added a Link-Belt 120|HT to its crane fleet — its fourth Link-Belt crane and, according to the team, one of the most versatile machines they've put to work.

In a single week, the 120-ton crane lifted two 30,000-gallon tanks at a job site in Shipman, Illinois, handled carbon steel piping, chillers, and HVAC units during a hospital upgrade in St. Louis, and traveled 37 miles to Carlinville to set a manufactured home — two sections totaling nearly 80,000 pounds combined.
Owner Alana Yount said the crane's ability to operate as an 80-, 100-, or 120-ton machine makes it useful across a wide range of projects. The crew credited the Pulse 2.0 operating system and V-CALC variable outrigger positioning as standout features for setup speed and operator ease.

The modular counterweight system allows Waggoner to transport the crane within highway weight limits and add counterweight on site for heavier picks — keeping the operation self-sufficient without costly oversize loads.

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Marina Gouvia on the Greek island of Corfu just finished a major redevelopment — and the centerpiece is a new floating c...
06/03/2026

Marina Gouvia on the Greek island of Corfu just finished a major redevelopment — and the centerpiece is a new floating concrete dock system built to handle everything from day boats to 230-foot yachts.

Owner D-Marin commissioned the project in two phases. Phase One replaced all existing piers with 1,500 feet of SF Marina floating precast concrete pontoons — steel-reinforced, secured to the seabed with chain and concrete anchors, and designed to be virtually unsinkable. Phase Two added a 390-foot aluminum frame pier and 1,400 feet of wider pontoons, including 13-foot-wide sections that double as a breakwater for the marina.

All 73 pontoon and anchor assemblies were prefabricated at SF Marina's facility in Porto Lagos, Greece and trucked to a staging area. The full installation took two weeks. The redevelopment brings Marina Gouvia's capacity to 1,350 boats.

Located 4.5 miles north of Corfu on sheltered Gouvia Bay, the marina serves as a gateway to the Ionian, Adriatic, and Mediterranean seas.

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The southern tip of Manhattan has been a working waterfront for more than 400 years. Now it's getting a major rebuild — ...
06/01/2026

The southern tip of Manhattan has been a working waterfront for more than 400 years. Now it's getting a major rebuild — and the goal is to keep it standing for 80 more.

The Battery Coastal Resiliency Project is a $200 million effort to reconstruct and raise The Battery's wharf promenade in Lower Manhattan, a direct response to the catastrophic flooding Hurricane Sandy caused in 2012. The project is part of the broader Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency initiative, a city-wide effort to protect the area from rising sea levels and future storm surge.

Hunter Roberts Construction Group is the prime contractor. Walsh Group is a key subcontractor. Phase I — covering roughly two-thirds of the waterfront on the west side — involved demolishing the existing wharf, driving 220 concrete friction piles, and rebuilding at an elevation five feet higher than the original. Phase II follows once Phase I wraps.

One of the more unusual parts of the job: crews removed 19th-century granite fascia from the old wharf, studied its condition, cut it to size, and are reinstalling it on the new, higher structure — so the rebuilt waterfront will look like the historic one, just elevated. The project earned the first Envision platinum verification award in Manhattan.

Phase I is expected to complete ahead of schedule this summer.

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Corroded piles and submerged structural members are a persistent and costly problem for marine infrastructure. Denso has...
05/29/2026

Corroded piles and submerged structural members are a persistent and costly problem for marine infrastructure. Denso has introduced a new system designed to tackle it in some of the harshest environments in the industry.

The SeaShield Series 2000HD is a heavy-duty, multi-layered corrosion protection system built for dock piles, riser pipes, jetty piles, support members, bracing, brackets, and exposed piping — particularly in splash zones and intertidal zones, where structures cycle between wet and dry conditions and corrosion accelerates fastest.

The system pairs Denso's petrolatum tape technology — with more than 50 years of proven anti-corrosion performance — with a High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) outer jacket secured by a bolted connection. Petrolatum tape is a corrosion-inhibiting wrap that conforms to irregular shapes and excludes moisture and oxygen. The HDPE shell adds mechanical protection against physical impact and marine wear.
The system works across a wide range of pile shapes, including cylindrical, square, hexagonal, and H-pile configurations, as well as irregular surfaces.

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When a vessel tows a train of grapnels along the seabed to clear a cable route, knowing exactly where the rear of that t...
05/27/2026

When a vessel tows a train of grapnels along the seabed to clear a cable route, knowing exactly where the rear of that train is — without sending down an ROV — has been a real gap in the process. Dynamic Load Monitoring (DLM) built a tool to close it.

The Stingray is an acoustic positioning grapnel that attaches to the rear of a grapnel train and sends its location back to the towing vessel via acoustic signal. In pre-lay grapnel run (PLGR) operations — where grapnels are dragged along the seabed to clear debris and obstructions before a subsea cable is laid — the trailing end of the train is the hardest position to track. The Stingray solves that without requiring an ROV onboard.

International marine contractor Van Oord was involved in sea trials of the product. DLM noted that past grappling operations sometimes required repeated attempts when the vessel's position relative to a cable was off — adding time and cost. Stingray's real-time positioning data removes that guesswork.

The unit is manufactured from high-strength structural steel, supports multiple USBL beacon types to match existing vessel receivers, and is available for purchase or rental.

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Puerto Rico has long depended on imported fuel for power. A new vessel is changing part of that equation.Crowley has pla...
05/25/2026

Puerto Rico has long depended on imported fuel for power. A new vessel is changing part of that equation.
Crowley has placed the American Energy into service as the first domestic liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier to transport U.S.-sourced natural gas to Puerto Rico. The 900-foot vessel — with a capacity of 130,400 cubic meters per voyage — will make regular runs from the U.S. Gulf Coast to Naturgy's operating facility in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, under a multi-year agreement between the two companies.

LNG is a form of natural gas cooled to liquid for storage and transport, making it practical to move by sea. It produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions than diesel and other conventional fuels. At capacity, each delivery aboard American Energy carries enough energy to power 80,000 homes for a year.

The vessel is crewed by U.S. mariners and holds a CAP 1 rating — the top rating for safety and vessel condition. Crowley has served Puerto Rico for more than 70 years and already delivers more than 94 million gallons of LNG annually through its terminal in Peñuelas.

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Michels Corporation had the marine construction capabilities. What it needed was technology that could keep up with the ...
05/22/2026

Michels Corporation had the marine construction capabilities. What it needed was technology that could keep up with the work — including breaking rock and dredging sediment in conditions that defeat most machine and sensor systems.

The company invested in the Trimble Marine Construction System (TMC), a purpose-built marine construction platform, and put it to work almost immediately on the Missouri River Bedrock Removal Project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The goal: excavate at least 120,000 cubic yards of material over two miles of river bottom to restore safe navigation for river boat traffic. A 95-ton Cat 395 excavator mounted on a barge did the work — guided underwater in real time by TMC, which tracked bucket position, boom and stick movement, and relationship to survey and design data simultaneously, all in 3D.

The system ran the full project without electronics or software downtime. Since then, TMC has been deployed across Michels' marine fleet, including a harbor dredging project in Wells, Maine, where the team dredged 7,400 cubic yards of sediment and reconstructed 2,400 linear feet of beachfront.

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Poland's first offshore wind terminal, at the Port of Świnoujście, is one of the most modern in Europe — and it needed f...
05/20/2026

Poland's first offshore wind terminal, at the Port of Świnoujście, is one of the most modern in Europe — and it needed fender and mooring systems built to handle some of the largest vessels and components in the offshore wind industry.

ShibataFenderTeam supplied the terminal's fender and bollard systems as part of a multi-stage upgrade that extended Quay 1 and Quay 2 to a combined 500 meters. The terminal is designed to support jack-up barges and heavy-lift vessels handling 15 MW wind turbine installations — including foundations weighing up to 1,000 tons and blade components stretching 150 meters long.

The supply scope included 51 Cone Fender systems with closed-box steel panels and UHMW-PE pads, 13 SD Fender systems, and 26 T-Head Bollards rated at 100 tons each. Despite global supply chain challenges, the fenders were delivered ahead of schedule. When complete, the terminal will supply clean electricity to 1.5 million Polish households.

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The NTSB released its marine accident report on a July 2023 pier contact at the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana. The tow...
05/18/2026

The NTSB released its marine accident report on a July 2023 pier contact at the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana. The towing vessel Danny Terral, pushing six loaded rock barges in a 675-foot tow, struck Pier No. 5 during a nighttime docking approach. No injuries occurred, but pier damage ran about $1 million. The NTSB found the probable cause was the mate misjudging the approach to an unlit, unfamiliar pier at night — compounded by a deckhand who hadn't yet reached the head of the tow to call out distances, and an outgoing current that pushed the tow toward the pier.



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ShibataFenderTeam delivered a custom fender system for the Joubert dock at Saint-Nazaire Port in France — a historic loc...
05/15/2026

ShibataFenderTeam delivered a custom fender system for the Joubert dock at Saint-Nazaire Port in France — a historic lock on the Loire River that doubles as a drydock for large vessel construction and maintenance. The challenge: safely guiding ships as large as the 333-meter MSC World America through a lock just 50 meters wide. The solution included rolling foam fenders for guidance, SX-P fenders with sliding plates for smooth transit, and pneumatic fenders in multiple sizes to handle vessels of varying dimensions.



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