FLORIDA’S PANAMA CITY STARTS DREDGING
The port of Panama City in Florida and the U. S. Corps of Engineers have begun a joint dredging project to deepen the port’s entrance channel and turning basin from 32 feet to 36 feet.
Inland Dredging Co. of Dyersburg, Tenn. will begin work in the channel in January.
The Panama City Port Authority is in the process of bidding the dredging work in the berthing areas.
The entire project will cost approximately $8.5 million and be completed by the end of May 2003, the port said.