AMERICAS GREENPORT

Dredging for Savannah

16 years ago

The Port of Savannah has received conditional blessing from the US Army Corps of Engineers in relation to the dredging plans to expand the US’s fourth-largest container port. The Corps have judged that the planned mitigation projects around the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge will offset the environmental costs of the project.

Port officials plan to dredge the Savannah River by 2 metres to offer 15 metre draft to vessels expected to pass through the Panama Canals once it’s deepened in 2014. The final decision on the project will be taken in late 2011.