Army Corps of Engineers’ Norfolk District commander.
Ultimately, the commonwealth and, locally, Hampton Roads must engage in the ongoing public discussion that will help inform current and future decisions on the maintenance and development of our ports, waterways and their related infrastructure.Ĭol. The Port of Virginia is the sole eastern seaboard port authorized to dredge to 55 feet. “International shipping companies are now routinely building ships that, when deeply loaded, draw 48 feet to 52 feet.”Ĭofer said around the world, ports require at least 3 feet of under-keel clearance in their inner harbors, and 8 feet of under-keel clearance to safely transit offshore waters. “Today, inland channels require 55-foot depths, and offshore entry fairways require 60-foot depths,” he said. William “Bill” Cofer, president of the Virginian Pilot Association, contend that the 50-foot channel depth is insufficient for the post-Panamax vessels. “Unless the current budget paradigm changes, nationally we cannot afford to add new and improve existing infrastructure without also increasing the dollars available to maintain the improvements to the navigation system.”īut, in terms of post-Panamax-ready, did the report go far enough? “We must continually weigh the needs of new capital improvements with an operations and maintenance budget that has remained flat for years and actually has lost critical buying power for required channel dredging maintenance due to inflation,” Darrow said.
Mike Darrow, Norfolk District’s chief of Water Resources Division, underscores the importance of striking the right balance. Moreover, turning basins, navigation jetties, dredge material placement facilities, berthing facilities and aids to navigation must all be made ready for the larger fleet of vessels. Channels require maintenance dredging, cranes require repair and servicing, aids to navigation continually require replacing, etc. In this time of seemingly perpetual fiscal crises, we must realize that capital improvements cannot be realized at the cost of maintaining current levels of service.
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In the private sector, more than 14,000 businesses from the contiguous 48 states move cargo through Virginia, all of which stand to benefit from the impending paradigm shift in shipping.īut we must balance the cost of a post-Panamax port. (Black Ops 3) - Call of Duty Black Ops 3 '48 DREDGE' UPDATE 2.0 Gameplay BEST Class Setup and Gameplay with the 'DREDGE' 2000 LIKES Cha. New, larger vessels all but demand the expansion: Hofstra University reported that each time the size of a ship is doubled, its capacity tripled.
The project would allow the Virginia Port Authority to nearly double its marine terminal capacity, enabling it to meet projected increases in international trade after the newly expanded Panama Canal is opened. 6 letter to both the assistant secretary for civil works and the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Virginia senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine underscored the importance of funding the Craney Island Eastward Expansion project in Portsmouth. Hampton Roads’ economic future hinges on funding the growing gap between the burgeoning vessels and the port infrastructure that can welcome them.
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