SC ports approve contract for new terminal work

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina State Ports Authority has approved additional work on a $525 million container terminal at the old Charleston Naval Base.

The authority board on Friday agreed to spend almost $43 million to place fill on the land side of the terminal and along a 5,000-foot containment wall already in place.

The contract was awarded to Jay Cashman of Massachusetts.

Beginning next month, workers will move almost 2 million cubic yards of material from a dredge disposal site on Daniel Island to the site of the new 280-acre container terminal.

Daniel Island was the site where, in the 1990s, the authority had planned to build a $1.2 billion Global Gateway terminal. But there was public opposition and state lawmakers directed the terminal be built at the old Navy base.