摘要: |
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation announced on August 24 the receipt of several major dredging awards totaling $107 million. The awarded work includes: 1.Norfolk, Va., Harbor Navigation Improvements Project, $56.8 million; 2.Charleston, S.C., Lower Harbor maintenance dredging project, $15.4 million; 3.Tampa Harbor maintenance dredging 45-foot project, $13 million; 4.New Jersey Wind Port, Stage 1, access channel dredging project, $7 million; and 5.various maintenance projects in New York, North Carolina and South Carolina, $14.8 million. The Norfolk Harbor Navigation Improvements Project, awarded in the third quarter of 2022, entails work to deepen and widen the Thimble Shoal Federal Navigation Channel within the approximately 5-mile segment beginning approximately 3 miles west of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel westward to naturally deep water. The Thim- ble Shoal Federal Navigation Channel is the main thoroughfare into Norfolk Harbor. The project will assist the harbor in increasing cargo capacity for the port. The client on this state-funded project is the Virginia Port Authority. Work is expected to be complete by the end of the third quarter of 2023. |