Thursday, August 3, 2023

Port of Brownsville’s Brazos Island Harbor Channel Improvement Project contractor gets green light!

Happy Thursday!

Did anyone hear that the Port of Brownsville announced Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Corporation received their Notice to Proceed for Phase 1 on the Brazos Island Harbor (BIH) Channel Improvement Project in late July?  Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Corporation will begin the channels deepening along the 17-mile Brownsville ship channel which will be dredged from 42 to 52 feet later this year.  The 2 phase BIH project will be paid for through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Public-Private Partnership (P3) which includes the Port of Brownsville, NextDecade and other stakeholders.  NextDecade will be paying for Phase 1 of the BHI project which includes dredging from the mouth of the ship channel to their western boundary of the leased site.  In addition, NextDecade will be establishing two ship berths and a turning basin for its Rio Grande LNG facility.  Phase 2 improvements include dredging from the turning basin to NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG facility.  Phase 2 will be partially paid for by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Appropriations Law which $68 million has been assigned for the project.   This is great news for the Port of Brownsville and its future with hosting large vessels.    If you would like to read more about the BHI Channel Improvement Project at the Port of Brownsville, please click the link: https://www.portofbrownsville.com/bih-project-gets-a-boost-great-lakes-receives-notice-to-proceed-for-phase-1-of-channel-deepening-project/.

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