Posted on December 10, 2023
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 League of the United States, Mike Stevens
- Drue Pearce, Alaska expert with Holland & Hart LLP
- Our American Maritime Partnership (AMP) reps, Mark Ruge and Ellie Marie Stuart
- Guests from Norfolk Dredging and Orion Marine Group
- The American Association of Port Authorities
- strong maritime industry supporter Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana— the “Congressional office of the Jones Act.”
Congressman Rick Larssen of Washington, Ranking Member of the U.S. House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee sat down with DCA members and Maritime Labor’s MEBA, AMO-SIU, MM&P and the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department to discuss the Jones Act, shipbuilding, national security and dredging.
