Issue #122, 5 January 2004
Second round of dredging starts at mouth of Yangtze River
The second phase of a massive dredging project at the mouth of China's largest river, the Yangtze, has got underway, according to Xinhuanet.
By October 30th 2005, when the dredging is completed, the waterway will have been deepened from 8.5m to 10me and the width expanded from 350m to 400m.
In the second phase, workers will dredge 7.8 million cubic meters of silt from the 73km waterway.
The waterway is the main entry and exit point for Shanghai Port, but silt build-up over the years caused a bottleneck in the 1990s.
Dredging News Online
