The contract was awarded by Rouen-based GIE Dragages-Ports with regard to its 117m, 8500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Samuel de Champlain, and the works will take place next year at Damen ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences tells the story of Samuel de Champlain, an important early French explorer, navigator, soldier, diplomat and founder of New France and the Quebec settlement.

The 2025 shipping season officially kicked off with the arrival of the Innovation with Tug Samuel De Champlain. She arrived on Wednesday, March 12, at 1:49 p.m. carrying a shipment of cement.

The tug Samuel de Champlain entered the river around 3:30 a.m. Friday, March 21, pushing the barge Innovation. The duo moored at the Holcim Cement Dock in Essexville. Video of the vessels can be ...