Los Angeles Celebrates Completion of 10-Year, $370 Million Main Channel Deepening Project

A ceremony at the Port of Los Angeles on April 3 marked the completion of the port Main Channel Deepening Project. Conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the 10-year, $370 million project involved deepening to 53 feet of the port’s 45-foot Main Channel, the West Basin Channel and East Basin Channel. That is sufficient to accommodate the largest container ships currently in service.

During the course of the multi-year effort, the Corps excavated and relocated 15 million cubic yards of dredge materials to various sites throughout the port. Some of that material was used to construct the 104-acre Cabrillo Shallow Water Habitat, a replacement habitat and feeding area for fish and marine birds in the outer harbor. 

The port’s container terminal tenants rely on the port’s deep channels to move cargo. Those terminals generate about 74 percent of port revenues and help facilitate hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs throughout Southern California. More than 43,000 direct jobs are connected to marine terminal operators at the port.

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