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Port Manatee Berth 12 Dredging

This map shows the base bid, alternate bid location and other elements of the Manatee County Port Authority's tender for dredging its new Berth 12. The nearly 1600-foot-long berth will accommodate containerized shipping with a 41-foot depth and one foot overdepth, and is expected to be operational by late 2010. The base bid includes excavation and hydraulic dredging of nearly 760,000 cubic yards of material and removal to a certified upland dredged material placement site. The bid alternate calls for dredging an additional 370,000 cubic yards of material. The port authority will receive sealed bids until March 22nd at 2 p.m. For more information, please see the request for proposal on the port’s Web site at www.portmanatee.com/requests.aspx.

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'Way Haul Away

WEDA members haul a line aboard the sailing vessel Californian, on a cruise under sail in San Diego Bay during the Western Dredging Association Pacific Chapter meeting last November.

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Hooking Up the Tag Line

Don Sarter, left, and Greg Visti attach a tag line to Roen Salvage’s new 14-cubic-yard Cable Arm bucket at the company’s yard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The tag line, controlled by a tag line reel on the crane, keeps the bucket from spinning. After the bucket was hooked up, they tested in on the huge piles of snow on the dock. Photo by Tom Levy.

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At Ellicott

Peter Bowe, Ellicott president; Myrna LaBarre, executive assistant and 40-year Ellicott employee; Steve Miller, Regional Sales Manager, and Paul Quinn, vice president, Sales for the company. They are standing in front of plaques for dredging equipment patents issued to the company and to company employees through the years. In January, Bowe announced that Markel Ventures had acquired a majority interest in the 125-year-old dredge manufacturer.

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