The United States Chamber of Commerce's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has presented Baltimore-based marine services provider Ellicott Dredge Enterprises with an "Impact Award" for the firm's infrastructure and environment work in Iraq.
One of eight organisations to receive the inaugural award, Ellicott was able to secure contracts in Iraq supplying dredges to de-silt hydroelectric dams, as well as to improve flood control on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and to improve irrigation canals.