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Dredging

Photo: Great Lakes Dredge and Dock and to deepen and widen the entrance channel and parts of the Norfolk, Virginia

Intracoastal Waterway so that larger ships can transit and pass Weeks Marine (Weks) and Cottrell Contracting kicked off safely by docked cruise ships. the New Year full throttle ahead, dredging at Thimble Shoal

The New Start funding will be used to build a new facility and the Norfolk Inner Harbor Channels. Recently, Weeks in- for the U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale so the Intra- stalled a new Liebherr crane assembly and clamshell bucket coastal Waterway can be widened by 250 feet at a chokepoint for the job. According to the Army Corps of Engineers, Cot- where large Neo-Panamax ships currently experience operat- trell Contracting began dredging the Norfolk Harbor Inner ing restrictions that affect the vessels’ ability to transit. The Channel and channel to Newport News the last week of De-

Coast Guard Station recon? guration is the ? rst phase of the cember. In October, the Port of Virginia executed a contract larger dredging project. with New Jersey-based Weeks Marine to begin the deepening of the western side of Thimble Shoal Channel. The work

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