After recommendations were made based on future forecasts of larger vessels calling on the Port of Virginia, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is recommending a $321 million Virginia navigation project – deepening and widening the Norfolk Harbor and Channels to 55 feet deep in the Norfolk Harbor, Norfolk Harbor Entrance, and Newport News Channels; 56 feet deep and at least 1,200 feet wide in Thimble Shoal Channel; and 59 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean Channel.

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