South Carolina Ports Awards $42.7-Million Project for Navy Base Terminal
March 25, 2012
CHARLESTON, SC – March 25, 2012 – Progress on the Port of Charleston’sNavy Base Terminal has reached another milestone with today’s approvalof the next major construction project.
The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) Board today approved the$42.7-million contract, which includes the placement of fill material onportions of the landside of the terminal and along the alreadycompleted 5,000-foot-long containment wall structure, which wasconstructed toward the shipping channel. The facility represents theonly permitted new container terminal currently under construction onthe U.S. East and Gulf coasts.
The completion of the Navy Base Terminal, along with the CharlestonHarbor Deepening Project, demonstrates that South Carolina understandswhat the industry’s future demands are, and we will be ready to meetthem, said Bill Stern, chairman of the SCPA Board. The new terminaland a deepened harbor are both essential to fulfill our mission ofeconomic development and serve our customers’ needs for the foreseeablefuture.
The Board selected for the project Massachusetts-based Jay Cashman,which was the lead contractor on the demolition of the former CooperRiver bridges, as well as one of the partners on the $44-millioncontainment wall project for the Navy Base Terminal.
Starting next month, crews will relocate approximately 1.75 millioncubic yards of dredged material from Daniel Island to the terminal siteby water, placing the fill behind the containment structure and onportions of the upland area. The crews also will consolidate the uplandarea of the site by installing approximately 5.7 million linear feet ofvertical wick drains and surcharging the area to stabilize the site andprepare it for construction.
The project is expected to run through January 2014, overlapping withthe next major fill contract, which is slated to begin late next year.At build out, the new, 280-acre container terminal will increase thePort of Charleston’s container capacity by 50 percent.
About the South Carolina Ports Authority
The South Carolina Ports Authority, established by the state’s GeneralAssembly in 1942, owns and operates public seaport facilities inCharleston and Georgetown, handling international commerce valued atmore than $58 billion annually while receiving no direct taxpayersubsidy. An economic development engine for the state, port operationsfacilitate 260,800 jobs across South Carolina and nearly $45 billion ineconomic activity each year. For more information, visit http://www.scspa.com.
