The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) granted a $92 million construction contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC, to deepen and widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel (CCSC) from the Gulf of Mexico to Harbor Island, under the Channel Improvement Project (CIP).
This contract will increase the depth from -47 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) to -54 ft MLLW from the jetties at the entrance of the ship channel to Harbor Island and will extend the CCSC into the Gulf of Mexico to -56 feet MLLW.
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Back in November, the USACE announced its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Work Plan, which included an additional $59 million in funding for the CIP, increasing the total Federal appropriations for the CIP to $95 million.
Col. Lars Zetterstrom, Commander of the Galveston District for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said:
The project delivery team worked tirelessly to achieve this milestone, which opens the gate to improving one of the nation’s most important navigation channels
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has also worked on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill cleanup and the deepening of the Port Miami harbor.
Commenting on this development, Lasse Petterson, Chief Executive Officer for the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC, noted that this award will drive the future investment and development in the Port, since ‘it all starts with dredging’.
