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Dredging the Port of Umm Qasr
The Carolina, a dredging vessel of Great Lakes Dredging and Dock, arrives in the port of Umm Qasr. As part of its capital infrastructure contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bechtel's initial work includes surveying and emergency dredging of the port, to enable ships to deliver humanitarian aid. May 7, 2003. (Photo by Thayer Walker for Bechtel)
Sign on U.S. Agency for International Development ship delivering rice at Umm Qasr after successful dredging of the port. May 5, 2003.
The Carolina lowers equipment to begin the emergency dredging of the Umm Qasr Port.
Rice being unloaded from a U.S. Agency for International Development ship at Umm Qasr after successful dredging of the port. May 5, 2003.
Output pipe from the Carolina dredging vessel, at the port of Umm Qasr.
A contractor organizes newly hired Iraqi workers
Great Lakes employees remove trash collected on dredge intake
A Port Manager with Iraqi power station employee at Umm Qasr grain facility.
Umm Qasr port administration sign.
Cliff Mumm, Bechtel program director for the Iraq reconstruction project (left), with Roy Woods, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock project manager for dredging operations at Umm Qasr. Port of Umm Qasr in the background. May 8, 2003. (Photo by Jonathan Elliman for Bechtel)
A Bechtel survey boat is lifted from the service boat at Umm Qasr, Iraq's only deep-water port. Photo by Graeme Robertson/Getty Images
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Dredging the Port of Umm Qasr


The Carolina lowers equipment to begin the emergency dredging of the Umm Qasr Port.
Photo courtesy of Bechtel National, Inc.

The Carolina lowers equipment to begin the emergency dredging of the Umm Qasr Port.

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