Marine Structures Provides Maritime Products to Chesapeake Bay Bridge Staging Pier
The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) voted to replace the existing timber staging dock used by contractors in the execution of ongoing work on the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge (Bay Bridge) with a new parallel concrete staging dock. Marine Structures was asked to provide domestically manufactured double bitt mooring bollards, cleats and fenders for…
Read MoreMarine Structures Provides Marine Bollards For The New Norwegian Cruise Line Terminal
Norwegian Cruise Line recently announced the plans for a new and exclusive cruise line terminal in the PortMiami that is slated to be completed in 2020. Marine Structures was contracted to provide the double bitt and storm marine bollards for this project. The Norwegian Cruise Line travel blog expounds on the exciting news here, “Norwegian…
Read MoreMarine Structures Provides Mooring Bollards to Georgia Pacific Wharf Project
Many wharfs across the United States are undergoing massive upgrades and Georgia Pacific is one of them. With damage to the structures from years of use and deterioration from the marine environment, the Antioch, CA wharf is needing repairs. The last repairs on the wharf were completed nearly 30 years ago. Marine Structures is excited…
Read MoreMarine Structures Supplies U.S. Army With American Made Bollards on Echo Pier
When the United States gained military control of the Marshall Islands from Japan in 1944, the U.S. gained administrative control of the islands through the United Nations as part of the Trust Treaty of the Pacific Islands following the end of World War II. We have kept a strategic relationship with the islands since. The…
Read MoreWando Welch Terminal Upgrade Completed With Marine Structures’ “Buy America” Bollards
Our American made maritime bollards are now at the South Carolina Port Authority due to a Buy American need for bollards. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the South Carolina Port Authority (SCPA) $10.8 million in a TIGER (Transportation Infrastructure Generating Economic Recovery) grant to upgrade the Wando Welch Terminal in Mount Pleasant, SC in…
Read MoreWashington, D.C.’s Wharf Is Home To Marine Structures Bollards And Cleats
Alaska Ferry Terminal Receives Update With Buy America Bollards & Cleats
For over 40 years, the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) has operated vessels throughout the state and the city of Kodiak that are designed to carry passengers and vehicles all the way up to large freight containers. In these latter years, the increase in ferry traffic has caused a need for improvements to the Kodiak…
Read MoreUC San Diego’s Scripps Institute Completes Pier and Wharf Upgrade
The Nimitz Marine Facility (MarFac) in Port Loma, CA completed a five-year, $20.9 million rehabilitation project. MarFac is the home port and technical support center for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego research facility and deep-sea research vessels. The prior wharf and pier were 48 years old and in…
Read MoreUnited States Merchant Marine Academy Receives Update to Mallory Pier
Situated in Kings Point, New York on Long Island is a service academy like none other. The United States Merchant Marine Academy is a federal service academy operated under the Department of Transportation rather than the Department of Defense like other service academies. According to its website, the USMMA “educates and graduates leaders who are…
Read MoreMarine Structures Supplies Mooring Bollards In The Wake Of Hurricane Sandy
Did you know American made mooring bollards are located on Liberty Island? They are because of the perfect storm. On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy approached landfall in an unusual event where a hurricane hit New Jersey and New York. Over 40 people died, the tunnels and subways flooded, hospitals were evacuated and numerous businesses…
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