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Joint venture's award is part of a nearly $3.3B effort to build a larger lock to accommodate modern cargo vessels as they traverse the 21-ft elevation change traveling between Lake Superior and the other Great Lakes.

A $1.5-billion project to double the length of the Kentucky Lock—an expansion 25 years in the making—has reached a milestone with installation of final structural monoliths that form its core.

These 80-year-old structures are critical components of a system that ensures consistent navigability and access along the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast.

Panama’s 10-year, $5.4-billion effort to add a third set of locks culminated on June 9, as tugboats guided a 255-meter-long bulk carrier, named Baroque, into the first lock.