Author: William P Doyle

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…

We have lost an industry giant.  Douglas B. Mackie, Chief Executive Officer of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) from 1995 to 2011, passed away on September 11, 2019.   Doug also served in many leadership roles at the Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) including Association President several times.

GLDD has a long heritage and over its’ 129 year history, certain families and individuals have left their mark. The Mackie’s…

Toady we pause and reflect.  On September 11, 2011 the World changed forever.  In Lower Manhattan half-a-million people were stranded on the island.  The trains stopped running and all roads were closed.  There was only one way out– boats.

• On 9/11, 500,000 people evacuated in 9-hours from Lower Manhattan by ships
• 150 Vessels and 800 American Mariners participated in the Boatlift
• In May of 1940, 339,000 trapped British and…
  

On August 20, 2019, Dutra’s new Jones Act built Hydraulic Dump Scow ES15 was successfully launched, christened, commissioned and will finish sea trials and additional testing this week.  Next week the ES15 will head to Massachusetts to to work on the Boston Harbor Deepening Project.

ES15 is…

Dyersburg, Tennessee based Inland Dredging Company is nine (9) days into dredging in McKellar Lake Harbor, Memphis, TN.  Inland’s 24″ Cutter-head Suction Dredge CSD INTEGRITY (photo above in featured image) is working under a three year contract with the Memphis District of the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Corps Memphis District begins at the mouth of the Ohio River and runs down…

J.F. Brennan Company unveils new dredge

The Cutterhead Suction Dredge KEVIN ZENKE

Featured Image above, L-R:  Chairman of the J.F. Brennan Company, Tony Binsfeld, Kevin Zenke, and Matt Binsfeld, President and CEO of J.F. Brennan.  Photos courtesy of Amber Thorson and 3B Photography

The cutterhead suction dredge KEVIN ZENKE, delivered 2019, working on Lake Zumbro. Photos…

Article III of the Constitution states that the “judicial power shall extend . . . to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction.” In the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress granted to the district courts exclusive original jurisdiction in civil cases in admiralty and maritime matters.

THE DUTRA GROUP, PETITIONER
v. CHRISTOPHER BATTERTON

DCA Summary:

• Dutra Group v. Christopher Batterton (June 24, 2019) (“Dutra” or “Dutra v. Batterton”) was…
  

Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, LLC (GLDD) is working as a subcontractor with Western Contracting Corporation to provide fill for an emergency sand berm to close a levee breach at river mile 572 on the Missouri River.  GLDD’s Hydraulic Cutter Suction Dredge ‘Iowa’ is dredging approximately 350,000 cubic yards of river sands from a borrow source in the Missouri River and pumping along 7,000-ft of floating and shore…

The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) Notifies Congress that the Congressional Research Service’s (CRS’s) Latest Report on Dredging is Fatally Flawed

“Notably, the author of this CRS report did not contact a single dredging company in the United States in the formulation of this report,” said William P. Doyle, CEO & Executive Director of the Dredging Contractors of America.  Mr. Doyle continued, “I don’t like having to publish…

Thursday, June 6, 2019, the U.S. Coast Guard announced the establishment of an industry-led Maritime Security Sector Coordinating Council (SCC).  The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) is a charter member.

Featured image above:  DCA members Manson Construction and Kiewit working on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Marine Foundations Removal Project.  Photo credit: Associated General Contractors of America.

Sector Coordinating Councils (SCCs) are self-organized and self-governed councils that enable…