The harbour deepening work at the US east coast port is scheduled to begin this autumn, after the South Carolina legislature appropriated $300 million for the entire project in 2012, reported American Shipper. According to the manager of corporate communications and community affairs at SCPA, Erin Dhand, the project is expected to be completed in 2020.
The FY2017 work plan also allocates $17.5 million for the first phase of a project to deepen Jacksonville harbour from 40 feet to 47 feet.
The plan also dedicates $42.7 million to the port of Savannah, comprising $35.8 million to continue entrance channel dredging, $4 million to continue environmental monitoring, $1.9 million for construction management and $990,000 for engineering during construction.
In addition, US President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2018 Civil Works Budget of the US Army Corps of Engineers allocates $50 million towards the Savannah harbour expansion.
On the Gulf coast, USACE's FY2017 work plan grants Tampa harbour $9 million to initiate, complete and fiscally close out a project on the Big Bend Channel, and $5 million for navigation channels around Houston and Galveston.
In the northeast, the work plan allocates $62.4 million towards the Delaware River Main Channel project and $18.2 million to the Boston Harbour Deep Draft Navigational Improvements Project.
The fiscal 2018 budget allocates $58 million towards the project, which will deepen Boston's outer harbour to 51 feet and the reserved channel to 47 feet, to better handle the 8,500-TEU ships that already call Conley Container Terminal, and even larger ships in future.
On the US west coast, the port of Oakland was granted $1.1 million to complete its 50-foot harbour deepening project.
The FY2017 work plan also allocates $17.5 million for the first phase of a project to deepen Jacksonville harbour from 40 feet to 47 feet.
The plan also dedicates $42.7 million to the port of Savannah, comprising $35.8 million to continue entrance channel dredging, $4 million to continue environmental monitoring, $1.9 million for construction management and $990,000 for engineering during construction.
In addition, US President Donald Trump's Fiscal Year 2018 Civil Works Budget of the US Army Corps of Engineers allocates $50 million towards the Savannah harbour expansion.
On the Gulf coast, USACE's FY2017 work plan grants Tampa harbour $9 million to initiate, complete and fiscally close out a project on the Big Bend Channel, and $5 million for navigation channels around Houston and Galveston.
In the northeast, the work plan allocates $62.4 million towards the Delaware River Main Channel project and $18.2 million to the Boston Harbour Deep Draft Navigational Improvements Project.
The fiscal 2018 budget allocates $58 million towards the project, which will deepen Boston's outer harbour to 51 feet and the reserved channel to 47 feet, to better handle the 8,500-TEU ships that already call Conley Container Terminal, and even larger ships in future.
On the US west coast, the port of Oakland was granted $1.1 million to complete its 50-foot harbour deepening project.