Weeks Marine expands dredge fleet

Infrastructure Development

Monday, July 16, 2012

Weeks Marine said it plans to christen a new $41 million ocean-going hydraulic cutter suction dredge, CR McCaskill , today at its Houma Marine Yard in Houma, La. The vessel is named for the dredging division’s top technical and equipment executive, Charles R. McCaskill, and is the third of five dredges Weeks is building at a cost of $200 million. The company expects to complete another dredge, the 8,500-cubic-yard hopper dredge...

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