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United States : DYERSBURG wins DEAL from USACE
Publish Date : 03-Sep-2013
The US Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, has given a contract in the amount of US$12,747,180 to Dyersburg, Tenn-based Inland Dredging Company, LLC, to dredge the Neches River Channel in Jefferson and Orange counties, Texas. The contractor has to eliminate about 3,537,000 cubic yards of material from the federal channel and about 80,000 cubic yards from the non-federal channel with material being placed in upland confined placement areas.
"This contract will allow us to address critical shoal areas along the approximate 18.6 miles of the Neches River Channel," said Paula Rankin Wise, an operation manager with the USACE Galveston Districts Navigation Branch. "The Neches River Channel services the Port of Beaumont, which is ranked sixth in the nation with respect to domestic and foreign cargo, moving approximately 73.7 million tons in 2011."
Wise says the Port of Beaumont is classified as one of nation's strategic ports serving as a major outload port for military deployments. Maintenance dredging of the Neches River reach is vital to the industries along the channel, the Port of Beaumont supporting the military mission.
The job will also comprise dredging at the Port of Port Arthur which will be funded by the port. Work will start in October 2013 and completion date is May 2014.
