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DREDGING OUTLOOK

DEMANDING TIMES for a

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DSC Dredge navigates a complicated dredge building market by augmenting an impressive array of standard equip- ment with a customized approach that satisf es domestic and international cus- tomers alike. It isn’t as easy as it looks.

By Joseph Keefe he New Year typically brings new challenges to all our nation’s success, and future successes, are dependent sectors of the waterfront and 2018 will be no differ- on our ports and waterways system ... Our ports, through ent. As the newly expanded and improved Panama which 99 percent of overseas trade passes, struggle to

T and Suez Canals bring larger, so-called post-Panamax ves- maintain their navigation channels at their fully autho- sels to U.S. shores, stakeholders tend to focus on domestic rized depths, let alone a depth to allow for even bigger dredging needs. And, there’s plenty of that to go around. At ships that are increasingly the global norm.” the same time, global infrastructure requirements are also Graves furthermore insists that central to all of these is- growing. Developing and