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new pipeline and a supply boat. Tim Dyer, project manager Corps’ Watson explained. “Without regular maintenance at Inland Dredging, said the they made modi? cations to dredging, barges eventually couldn’t make their way up and the dredge in order to perform the work. Inland Dredging down the river and in and out of the harbors as needed – this built an idler, or extension barge, that allowed the dredge is why we dredge and why it is so important to do so.” to swing wider channels. The dredge is also out? tted with a U.S. dredging companies do it all. Dredging Contractors sliding spud to propel the dredge forward, instead of swing- of America dredgers make sure America’s inland river sys- ing side to side. The retro? tting of the vessel was performed tem is dredged and cleared, ensuring the movement of com- at Inland Dredging’s Mt. Vernon, Ala. ship and repair yard. merce. American dredging companies are always reinvesting “These harbors serve as vital links to rail and highway in new equipment with capital investment and securing of transportation systems in the region, helping to deliver prod- ? xed assets. Inland Dredging Company is another shining ucts and commodities to and from global markets,” Army example of America’s dredging industry at its best.

Inland Dredging 2019 Work Scope • Hickman, Ken. with Hickman-Fulton County Riverport serves as the only public port on the east side of the Mississippi River in Kentucky. This port is located on the lower Mississippi at mile 922 in the Elvis J. Stahr Harbor.

• Caruthersville, Mo. - Pemiscot County Port Harbor is located at mile 849 on the Lower Mississippi River between St. Louis and Memphis, Tenn. and connected with the Pemiscot County Port Authority.

• New Madrid County Port Authority, Mo. Typical commodities include milled rice, fertilizers, environmentally Safe Nitrogen (ESN), coke, corn, other agricultural and dry bulk commodities such as cotton seed and rock/gravel.

• Tiptonville/Port Cate’s Landing, Tenn. Is considered the nation’s newest multimodal inland port, and the deepest dredged harbor on the Mississippi river between St. Louis and Baton Rouge, La.

• McKellar Lake, the Port of Memphis, encompasses approximately 127 operating entities, including major employers as diverse as Mitsubishi, Nucor, Valero, Cargill/Nouritech, TVA, CN Railroad, Electrolux, and Seacor AMH. The port is under the jurisdiction of the Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission.

• Port of Osceola, Ark. on the Mississippi River. The terminal’s major commodities are soybeans and corn.

• Port of Helena Harbor, Ark., resides withing the Helena Harbor Industrial Complex ND located on the Mississippi River at mile 652 AH.

• Port of Yellow Bend, Ark. is located directly on the Mississippi just south of Arkansas City.

• Port of Vicksburg Harbor, Miss., which annually handles 14 million tons of freight, is considered the 15th largest port in the country. It handles commodities including metal, steel, aluminum, ores, wood chips, pellets, paper, chemicals, phosphate and fertilizer, grains, beans and meal.

• Port of Greeneville, Miss. specialty involves dry bulk commodities such as liquid fertilizer and grain.

• Port of Rosedale Harbor, Miss. is located at the junction of the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers. This port handles commodities including coil rod, coil steel and cottonseed and other dry bulk commodities including grain, soybeans, rice, winter wheat and corn.

• Port of Columbus (Lowndes County Port), Miss. handles commodities including carbon scrap, pig iron, HBI, DRI and ferro alloys.

• The Port Lake Providence, La. is considered Louisiana’s largest inland port operating as a high-capacity agricultural niche port.

• Port of Lake Charles, La. is the 12th busiest port in the U.S. Its major commodity is crude oil, while the major export is bagged food aid for the world. Other commodities include petroleum coke, calcined petroleum coke, limestone, ceramic proppants, anode butts, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, caustic soda, styrene monomers and a variety of other combustibles.

• Madison Parish Port, La. handles aggregates, lime, dry and liquid fertilizer, cottonseed, grain and steel.

• Morgan City, La. is located at the con? uence of the Atchafalaya River and the Intracoastal Waterway at GIWW WHL Mile Marker 95. There are 200 private dock facilities located in the Morgan City vicinity equipped with barge-mounted cranes with capacities to 5,000 tons, track cranes to 300 tons, and mobile cranes to 150 tons.

• Panama City, Fla. at the Pensacola Naval Air Station –known as the initial primary training base for all U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard of? cers pursuing designation as naval aviators and naval ? ight of? cers.

• Port of Jackson, Ala., located on the Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway, services barged goods. • Port of Tuscaloosa, Ala. is located on the Black Warrior River in the area of west-central Alabama that is called West Alabama. The primary products that are transported are dry bulk commodities such as coal and coal coke.

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