New Year 2020: Weeks Marine and Cottrell Contracting Digging in Port of Virginia — Deeper, Wider, Safer
Weeks Marine and Cottrell Contracting kick off the New Year in 2020 full throttle ahead at Thimble Shoal and the Norfolk Inner Harbor Channels. Recently, Weeks installed a new Liebherr crane assembly and clamshell bucket for the job. According to the Army Corps of Engineers, Cottrell Contracting began dredging the Norfolk Harbor Inner Channel and channel to Newport News on Saturday (December 28th).
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Huge FY 2020 Bipartisan Appropriations Bill Signed into Law
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….
Dredging Pioneer William G. Gahagan: Fair Winds and Following Seas
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…
DCA Welcomes New AAPA President and Government Relations Team
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…
Texas-American Pride – Video: Corpus Christi Dredging is Huge
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…
Congressional Leaders Rebuke Fatally Flawed Congressional Research Service Reports on Dredging and U.S.-flag Shipping
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…
Remembering 9/11 and the Largest Boatlift in World History
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…
Dutra Launches New Hydraulic Dredging Dump Scow ES15
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…
Weeks Marine Christens Newest Cutter Suction Dredge J.S. Chatry
Today on August 12, 2019 at its repair facility in Houma, Louisiana, dredging and marine construction contractor Weeks Marine celebrated its 100thanniversary 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.
CRS Dredging Report is Fatally Flawed
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…