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DREDGING
MEGA
MACHINES:
MANSON TO ADD “THE BIONIC MAN”
OF DREDGERS *All images courtesy Wabtec
Manson Construction is a U.S. Jones Act dredging and marine construction ? rm, founded in 1905 and family owned until converting to an employee-owned company in 2012. Fred Paup,
Chairman of the Board, EVP, discussed the drivers for this multi- billion dollar company, from ? nding and retaining the best crews, to the construction of the $200 million+ 15,000 cu. yd. hopper dredge in Brownsville, Texas – the Frederick Paup – a dredge that
Paup says will be “the Cookie Monster” of beach replenishment.
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