Today’s work-start represents a $53.9 million contract for dredging operations running a distance of 12 miles North of the planned widening area between Dauphin Island and South of the intersection of the Channel and Theodore Industrial Canal.
“This project along with the collaborative support of our federal and state partners, will provide our customers and our carriers the necessary infrastructure to ensure their market competitiveness.” Driscoll, director and chief executive officer for the Alabama State Port Authority. “We extremely excited to see material moving on this crucial project,” said John C. The project also includes widening the Bay Channel by 100 feet (328.08m) for three nautical miles to accommodate two-way vessel traffic and other safety improvements. Army Corps of Engineers has executed two construction contracts in a multi-phase, $365.7 million construction program engineered and designed to deepen the existing Bar, Bay and River Channels Bar, by 5 feet (ft) each to a project depth of 50 ft, (15.24m), with additional depths for wave allowances, advanced maintenance, and allowable over depth for dredging (total depths of 56, 54, and 54 ft, respectively). Alabama’s seaport modernization program began construction today to deliver, by the year 2025, a deeper and wider Mobile Ship Channel and improve the lower harbor turning basin.
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