Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has completed emergency dredging on the C&D Canal using the clamshell dredges 51 and 52 and transporting the shoal material to Poplar Island in Chesapeake Bay. The dredges removed 721000 cubic yards of material in the final weeks of 2012 and beginning weeks of 2013 in response to shoaling that was restricting ship traffic starting in November. Read More

The dredging crisis on the Great Lakes will again dominate the efforts of the Lake Carriers Association (LCA) in 2013. LCAs 2012 Annual Report released on January 23 stressed that inadequate dredging took a real toll on Great Lakes shipping in 2012. Read More