Likewise, the project was originally budgeted at $484 million, the port added. The dredging was originally scheduled to be completed in December 2022, the Jacksonville Port Authority said in a statement to the JOC.com. The dredging, which Jacksonville began studying in 2005, started in February 2018, the port’s statement marking the occasion. The dredging culminates nearly two decades of planning at the port. The $420 million project allows post-Panamax ships to transit the channel. Johns River from the Atlantic Ocean up to the Blount Island Marine Terminal have been dredged from 40 feet to 47 feet. Jacksonville Port Authority on Monday said 11 miles of the St. Even with the dredging, though, ships calling at that terminal will still face some air draft restrictions due to a bridge that is unable to be moved. The next steps at the port involve dredging further up the channel to Jacksonville’s largest container terminal by acreage. The power-line raising would be a coda, and a small percentage of the cost, of the larger $420 million dredging project that the port, one of its main terminal operators, the state and federal government just completed, seven months ahead of schedule and below its original budget. After dredging its main channel to handle larger ships, the Port of Jacksonville now needs to raise power lines that span the waterway because they limit the size of the vessels that can readily call the port’s second largest container terminal by acreage.
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