In 2018, the private sector U.S.-flagged hopper dredging fleet capacity increased by 34% with the addition of two large new-build vessels built in U.S shipyards by U.S. The private sector dredging industry builds ships in accordance with market demand. The CRS report claims that there is a limited supply of dredging vessels and that the fleet is old and small. Notably, the CRS did not contact a single dredging company in the United States in the formulation of this report.īelow is a summary explanation of the biased CRS report that has been provided to Congressional leaders. We have addressed CRS’s inaccuracies in letters to Capitol Hill, starting with House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio and Ranking Member Sam Graves. His analysis of government contracting is fatally flawed. Frittelli is a Congressional Research Service transportation specialist. The recent Insight Report –Harbor Dredging: Issues and Historical Funding (June 14, 2019) (2019 Dredging CRS Report) authored by John Frittelli is completely one-sided, biased and inaccurate.
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