Port Plans for New York Prove Boon to Marine Contractors
As the global shipping industry moves to bigger ships to handle surging seaborne cargo trade, marine contractors are digging profits from mud, sand and rock. The New York and Newark harbor channels are the latest to be dredged, with the Corps of Engineers recently announcing two key contracts. Click here to view map
Plans call for dredging the Kill van Kull to 45 ft by 2004 and the Arthur Kill to 41 ft by the end of 2007. That work will set the stage for a deeper cut, to 50 ft, by 2009.