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Concluded the ten years of work of dredging of the main navigation channel of the port of Los Angeles
the backdrops are carried by -45 to -53 feet with an investment of 370 million dollars
April 4, 2013
Yesterday the port of Los Angeles has celebrated the completion of the work of dredging of the main navigation channel and the basin of evolution of the Californian port of call, whose backdrops are carried by -45 to -53 feet. The participation has lasted ten years and has involved an investment of 370 million dollars.
"The port of Los Angeles - the mayor of the American city has commented, Antonio Villaraigosa - is the vital economic engine of the region of Los Angeles. The completion of this project means that the port will remain competitive to international level and that in the years to come it will continue to being an essential source of places of work and economic increase of the region".
"The completion of the project of deepening of Main the Channel - the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles has explained, Geraldine Knatz - has been our single infrastructural project more important. We are pleasing for the job carried out from the LAST Army Corps of Engineers and for everyone of the attache's of the port that has returned the fruizione of this priority and essential infrastructure possible".
The container terminal whose operativity depends on the navigability of Main the Channel generates about 74% of the volume of transactions produced from the port.
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