HOUSTON, Dec. 20, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Orion Marine Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMGI), a leading marine specialty contractor serving the heavy civil marine infrastructure, began trading today on The NASDAQ Global Market under ticker OMGI.
Mike Pearson, Orion Marine Group's President and CEO said, "I am very excited that we have begun trading publicly on NASDAQ. There was a tremendous amount of work and effort to get us to this point, and I want to thank everyone involved. This is an exciting time for Orion Marine Group and I look forward to our future."
Orion Marine Group, Inc. provides a broad range of marine construction and specialty services on, over and under the water along the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic Seaboard and the Caribbean Basin and acts as a singlesource turnkey solution for its customers' marine contracting needs. Its heavy civil marine construction services include marine transportation facility construction, dredging, repair and maintenance, bridge building, marine pipeline construction, as well as specialty services. Its specialty services include salvage, demolition, diving, surveying, towing and underwater inspection, excavation and repair. The Company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has a 70-year legacy of successful operations.
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