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As the U.S. Jones Act private sector dredging industry continues with its $3 Billion construction of new dredges and associated vessels and equipment, the Dredging Contractors of America is pleased to announce the results FY 2023 dredging season as reported in the U.S. Dredging Report:  An Analysis of the FY23 U.S. Federal Dredging Market.*

The highly competitive American dredging industry had fifty-six (56) different companies who were awarded U.S. Army…

On the evening of July 31, 2024, Major General William H. “Butch” Graham Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate as the next chief of engineers and commanding general of the Corps of Engineers. The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) congratulates Mr. Graham on this accomplishment, and look forward to continuing with our longstanding partnership.

In a thoughtful announcement of this news, the current commanding general and his wife…

Last evening, the Water Resources Development Act of 2024 (WRDA), H.R. 8812, was overwhelmingly approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 359 to 13.

The Dredging Contractors of America applauds this overwhelming bipartisan passage of WRDA 2024 in the U.S. House.

It is an outstanding accomplishment and a win for the United States of America, said William Doyle,…

The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) is endorsing and supporting Assembly Bill 1122 (AB 1122), which seeks to address critical issues with the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) amendments to the Commercial Harbor Craft Rule. The bill aims to ensure that regulatory mandates are safe, feasible, and economically viable for the dredging and marine construction industry.

William “Bill” Doyle, Chief Executive Officer of the Dredging Contractors of America has…

At a ceremony in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, U.S. DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath and USACE Deputy Commanding General Butch Graham among others announced the full reopening of the Port of Baltimore’s Ft. McHenry channel to 700 feet wide and to a depth of 50 feet.

Scott Cowan, President of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA Local 333) thanked the U.S. Coast Guard…

U.S. dredging company Curtin Maritime hosts Commander of U.S Army Corps of Engineers, Task Force Virgin Islands Puerto Rico (TF-VIPR), Colonel Charles Decker on the dredge DB AVALON.

Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) unanimously voted to accept James Cottrell as the President of the DCA Board of Directors and Harry Stewart as its Senior Vice President.

William Doyle is featured on “What’s Going on in Shipping” with Sal Mercogliano.  Doyle spoke of the American, Jones Act response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge and how the dredging and marine construction industry immediately sprang into action sending assets, vessels and equipment into Baltimore.

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…