National Dredging Needs Study of Ports and Harbors: Implications to Cost-Sharingof Federal Deep Draft Navigation Projects Due to Changes in the Maritime Industry

摘要

This report is one of a series of interim reports produced as part of the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers work in response to Section 402 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992, P.L. 102-580 (WRDA92), which authorized the National Dredging Needs Study of U.S. Ports and Harbors (NDNS). This report presents a summary of NDNS findings regarding growth in container shipping with a particular focus on the rapid increase in containership sizes and an examination of the implications to cost-sharing formulas for deep draft navigation projects. In this regard, the report also responds to Section 401 of WRDA99, P.L. 106-53 that called for an assessment of current deep draft navigation cost-sharing rules. The current cost-sharing formula is based on Section 101 of WRDA86, P.L. 99-662. Overall findings of the Section 402 study are presented under separate cover in the final NDNS report.