Channel Expansion in Port Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi’s port and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers entered into a project partnership agreement that lays out project funding, a $327 million deepening and widening of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, which will be rough $224.5 million for the government and $102.4 million for the port.
The money will be used to begin one of the six contracts that will ultimately widen and deepen most of the channel to 530 feet wide and 54 feet deep. The channel project could be an economic boon for oil exports at the port. That will allow ships to leave the port with more weight and deeper drafts.
Larger ships can be filled with more oil, the 47-foot-deep channel will be deepened to 54 feet at Mean Lower Low Water, the average of the lower low water height of each tidal day.
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