Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) feasibility study planning process for channel improvements for the existing -50 foot Harbor Deepening Project. The NYNJHDCI Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment contains the U.S. The purpose of the New York-New Jersey Harbor Deepening Channel Improvements (NYNJHDCI) study is to determine if there are technically feasible, economically justifiable, and environmentally acceptable recommendations for federal participation in a navigation improvement project for the New York and New Jersey Harbor.

This has a significant adverse effect on the economics and engineering design of the existing Harbor Deepening Project. The fleet of container vessels regularly calling on the Port of New York and New Jersey includes vessels that are depth constrained at the existing channel depth and experience maneuverability inefficiencies at the existing channel width. The Harbor Deepening Project was constructed and is maintained at -50 feet MLLW and, in Ambrose Channel, -53 feet MLLW.Ĭontinued growth in vessel sizes calling the Port of New York and New Jersey has resulted in the Port receiving vessel calls larger than the design vessel of the 1999 study. The existing Harbor Deepening Project consists of the main navigation channels in the Port of New York and New Jersey that support the container terminals. The Port of New York and New Jersey is typically the first port of call for the largest container vessels calling on the U.S. The Port of New York and New Jersey is the busiest container port on the East Coast and the second busiest container gateway in the United States.

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