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…

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…

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…

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…

Today on August 12, 2019 at its repair facility in Houma, Louisiana, dredging and marine construction contractor Weeks Marine celebrated its 100^thanniversary with the christening of its newest asset – the highly automated and multifunctional ocean-going U.S.-flag hydraulic cutter suction dredge J.S. Chatry. The team that created the CR McCaskill and the Magdalen has now constructed the next generation in cutter suction dredges for the U.S. Jones Act fleet.

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…