This week in Washington, DC, the Pipeline Task Force of the Council for Dredging and Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) huddled for several hours discussing a path forward for eliminating underwater pipeline incidents during dredging activities. The dredging workload in U.S. ports and waterways is increasing. Ports and waterways along the East and Gulf Coasts are being dredged deeper and wider to allow transit of post-Panamax vessels. Dredging deeper calls…

Domestic dredging firms face many challenges in the coming months and years. At the same time, opportunities abound in a market and political climate that seems to beg for infrastructure upgrades, especially when it comes to harbors and…

Reeve & Associates and Estudios Técnicos, Inc. have released a new fact-based study, the first such report since Hurricane Maria, which sets the record straight on the economic impact of the Jones Act in Puerto Rico and the importance of the dedicated closed-loop service that state-of-the-art Jones Act carriers of the American maritime industry provide to the island. A few of the key findings in the report are the…