How Container Ships Are Causing A Frenzy At American Ports - Cheddar Explainers

There's an expensive and time-consuming fad sweeping America's ports: dredging. This is the process by which ports dig up the bottoms of their channels, either to maintain depth or go even deeper. In the last 5-10 years, dredging has taken ports by storm. To take just two examples: the Port of Boston recently completed a $350 million project to dredge the channel from 40 to 51 feet, and the Port of Miami requested a second dredge in 2018, just three years after completing a $205 million project to deepen their channel from 42 to 50 feet. They're far from the only ones, so why are ports in a such a race to dig deeper?

Further reading:

Miami Herald
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article221373915.html

Massport
https://www.massport.com/massport/media/newsroom/phase-two-of-the-boston-harbor-dredging-project-complete/

Dredging Today
https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2013/04/04/usa-los-angeles-port-celebrates-completion-of-dredging-project/

BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21432226

U.S DOT
https://explore.dot.gov/views/PortProfiles2020/HomeDashboard?:isGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&:embed=y

The Journal of Commerce
https://www.joc.com/maritime-news/container-lines/increasing-vessel-sizes-red-flag-us-ports_20201221.html?destination=node/3657501

Martin Associates
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/ports-shipping-industry-responsible-26-us-gdp-study-says

McKinsey and Company
https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/travel%20transport%20and%20logistics/our%20insights/how%20container%20shipping%20could%20reinvent%20itself%20for%20the%20digital%20age/container-shipping-the-next-50-years-103017.pdf

ITF-OECD
https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/15cspa_mega-ships.pdf#page33

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