Clarification: Port of Miami channel deepening

   An American Shipper story July 20 last week, “President puts 7 port projects on the fast track,” reported on a White House announcement about efforts to expedite infrastructure projects at ports around the country appears to have misstated the timetable for deepening the federal channel in the Port of Miami.
   The White House said last week that “the Administration today committed to completing all federal reviews for the Port of Miami by August of 2012, and expects to complete the deepening of the channel this year.”
   But Amanda D. Ellison, public affairs specialist at the corporate communications office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday that “the contract will be bid for this August/September timeframe and will be awarded in January 2013. Construction to begin shortly after. It will take approximately 2 years to complete the project.”
   In May the Port of Miami said it planned to put the project to deepen the channel to 50 feet by this summer and complete to project at the same time that the expanded Panama Canal opens.