President Biden released his proposed 2025 Budget on March 11, 2024 (not to be confused with the FY 2024 appropriations highlighted below). The federal government’s fiscal begins on October 1 and ends on September 30 of the next calendar year. Thus, we are nearly half-way through FY 2024. The government has been operating in FY2024 on a series of continuing resolutions.

On Sunday March 3, 2024, a bipartisan package…

The Dredging Contractors of America fully supports the bipartisan package of appropriations bills agreed to by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The package is known as the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024.

“We understand that agreeing to move on important spending legislation takes time and an enormous amount of effort,”

said William P. Doyle, Chief Executive Officer of the Dredging Contractors of America.

“We want to thank House Appropriations Committee…

The Dredging Contractors of America had a successful week of board and membership meetings with industry guests and speakers.

Hitting on all cylinders, the roundtables included:

• Major General Butch Graham, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -Deputy Chief of Engineers and Deputy Commanding General / Deputy Commanding General for Civil Works and Emergency Operations
• Aaron Smith CEO of Offshore Marine Service Association
• CEO of Navy…
  

The U.S. dredging industry is ‘fiercely competitive’ and growing according to The Mike Hooks Report, detailing the latest trends in the U.S. federal dredging market.

Every year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partners with American Maritime to identify and dredge projects across the country along the nation’s inland waterways, coastal channels, ports and harbors. According to the USACE, dredgers have moved more than 200 million cubic meters of…

U.S. dredging industry continues with $2.5Billion in newbuilds and capital expenditures—competitive U.S. dredging market saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in 2022

The U.S. dredging industry is highly competitive and saves the taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

In 2022, according to The Mike Hooks Report, An Analysis of the FY22 U.S. Federal Dredging Market, compiled in September 2023 finds the following:

• Fifty-two (52) Jones Act Dredging Companies…
  

Curtin Maritime was founded in 1997 by Captain Martin Curtin, who was – and remains – a tugboat operator by trade. With his innate tenacity and a passion for the work itself, he set out to design and build a distinguished fleet operated by skilled crews and supported by a high-performing team onshore. Over time, those aspirations became reality. In the last twenty years, systematic innovation and…

Dredging Contractors of America CEO William Doyle speaks with host Timothy Dooner on all things dredging and its interconnection with the supply chain, logistics, economic and national security — beneficial use of dredged material, coastal restoration, deepening and widening projects, Panama Canal, LNG, shipbuilding and the fleet Jones Act American flag vessels used on 9/11 to transport 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan to safety. Watch the video