In China as elsewhere, dredging is used to build protective barriers against the rising seas, as the Ellis Island is doing, and to create valuable new real estate. But for China’s president ...

the earlier-than-expected retirement of its Terrapin Island hopper dredge, and the longer-than-anticipated drydocking of its Ellis Island and Padre Island hopper dredges. And further hurt by a ...

Conrad Shipyard recently launched Galveston Island, the first of two newbuild ... all the way up to 15,000 cubic yards, which is the dredge Ellis, currently the largest in operation in the US.” ...

Regarding Barnes’s refutation that LRS’s dredging project was a public-private partnership, Ellis contended it was a matter of semantics. “I don’t know how to better describe it than that ...