Month: October 2019

For Immediate Release

This evening the U.S. House of Representatives passed by a recorded vote the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF), H.R. 2440.  The vote was 296 in favor and 109 opposed.  The voting required a two-thirds super majority of the House in order to pass under “suspension of the rules.”

There were  seventeen (17) bills presented in the House of Representatives today with fifteen (15)…

For Immediate Release

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to consider H.R. 2440, Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund bill on Monday October 28, 2019.  The bill may be presented in the House under “suspension of the rules.”

“We strongly support the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for its intended purpose,” said William P. Doyle, CEO and Executive Director of the Dredging Contractors of…

Texas American pride is driving improvements in Corpus Christi channel deepening in Port Aransas, Texas.  The Cutter Suction Dredge (CSD) Carolina is on the job.

Captain Scott Baumann is the skipper of the CSD Carolina (featured image above).  Captain Baumann explained:  “With this particular dredge (CSD Carolina) we can dredge sand and clay, mud – we can get rocks  and pump the sediment through a series of pipelines all the…

The Chairman and Ranking Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (T&I) and the Chair and Ranking Members of T&I’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation sent a letter to the Library of Congress refuting a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on the American dredging industry as “filled with misleading, slanted and false information.”   The bipartisan group of congressional leaders also condemned…