Miami Harbor is the first of four Eastern Seaboard ports to be deepened to accommodate the larger vessels.

The super-sized Panamax vessels are more than twice the size of current ships and will make overseas commerce more economical and efficient.

The harbor construction enables the port to accommodate larger vessels, ultimately facilitating a more efficient movement of goods and services. Miami Harbor is the largest dredging project conducted in the region in the past decade, and is the first of its kind in the nation to combine federal, state and local funds in advance to get the project done. Through a progressive partnership with the State of Florida, which provided funds needed to construct the project, the timeframe for channel construction was advanced by years and took two years to complete. The Miami Harbor project is the first Federal navigation project in the southeast built to a 50 feet depth to accommodate today’s shipping needs.Īs part of its 2012 We Can’t Wait initiative, the White House Administration announced nationally and regionally significant infrastructure projects would be expedited to help modernize and expand five major ports in the United States, including the Port of Miami. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District completed construction on the Miami Harbor deepening and widening project.

What is navigational dredging