Update – 20 December 2019:  President Donald J. Trump signs spending bills, funding all federal agencies and programs for fiscal year 2020.

Update – 19 December 2019:  Senate votes 71 – 23 on H.R. 1865.  The 8 spending bills pass including the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies.

17 December 2019 – On target and on time, this Congress keeps its eye on the ball and delivers.  This afternoon, the U.S….

The owners and chief executive officers of the hopper owning and specialized dust pan companies met this week in Washington, DC for three days of meetings.  The sessions included a roundtable discussion with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chief of Engineers, Lt. General Todd Semonite and Major General Scott Spellmon, Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations.   Meetings also included  a Water Resources Development U.S. Army Corps of…

The U.S.-Flag dredging industry commemorates the 78^th anniversary of the Japanese air raid on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor highlighting the critical need for a robust American shipbuilding capacity to ensure for the preparedness of the nation’s navy bases.

“On this day, December 7, 2019, we remember our brothers and sisters of the U.S Merchant Marine look to the past sacrifices made by 2,403 U.S. servicemen who…

William G. Gahagan, P.E. passed away on November 14, 2019.  Bill was one month shy of his 90th birthday.  He was born in 1929, in Brooklyn, NY.  Bill is a graduate of Yale University and the graduate engineering program at Stanford University.    He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the time between graduating from Yale and entering Stanford.

Bill Gahagan was a dedicated lifelong pioneer and leader in…

The Dredging Contractors of America welcomes Chris Connor as the new President and CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA).  Mr. Connor began leading the AAPA last month, and he has not wasted anytime filling key positions.   Mr. Connor is the former Global CEO of Wallenius Wilhemsen Logistics (WWL).  He also served in executive and leadership roles with Unites States Lines and Crowley Maritime Corporation, and is…

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…