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Roundtable U.S. Dredging Ops

RN Weeks will continue to be an important part of our work- horse hopper dredge ? eet. We are also building another large Describe your ? eet and operational equipment mix. Do sea-going pipeline dredge at C&C Marine in Belle Chase, you specialize in one form or dredging over another?

LA. While Weeks has a large ? eet of cutter suction dredges, the JS Chatry will be the most advanced. In July 2012, the JC: Cashman is the premier bucket and environmental

CR McCaskill entered our ocean-going cutter suction pipe- dredging company in the United States. We have bucket line dredge ? eet. For the last six years, she has been working dredge sizes of four yards to 50 yards; two backhoe dredges almost non-stop on projects around the country. The Chatry of ? ve yards to 18 yards; one hopper dredge; and ? ve en- builds on the capabilities built into the McCaskill and will vironmental bucket dredges. We’re proud to have completed join our ? eet sometime next year. the largest environmental remediation dredging project in

U.S. History – the Upper Hudson River PCB remediation

JC: We recently completed major upgrades to our ? eet. We project for GE. Aside from environmental, Cashman does all are ? nishing design plans on a new 5,000 cubic yard hopper types of dredging including navigation (Arthur Kill Channel dredge. We intend to begin construction on the ? rst of two for access to Port of NYNJ), beach renourishment (Florida) 5000 cubic yard hopper dredges in the spring of 2019. We’ve and pond & industrial work (Maryland).

already begun machinery acquisition and started the procure- ment process for long lead-time equipment. MM: We own three small cutter suction dredges (General

Pershing (18”, 1,565hp), General Patton (16”, 3,000hp), and

Weeks Dredge Magdalen. Photo: Weeks

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