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Thursday, October 25, 2012  The head of the South Carolina State Ports Authority is giving his annual state of the port address to maritime interests.

Thursday, July 19, 2012  The Obama Administration says that the $300 million deepening of the Charleston Harbor shipping channel is a nationally significant project and work to complete it will be expedited.

Friday, February 25, 2011  Clyburn told The Post and Courier of Charleston he has put an earmark for the money in the federal budget three times but it always died in the Senate.

Monday, February 14, 2011  Late last year, 98 mayors from across the state wrote the president asking for $400,000 to help pay for a study into deepening the harbor to 50 feet. The deeper water is needed to accommodate bigger ships that will be calling at South Carolina ports in the future.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010  U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint says there is a way to get money for the Port of Charleston without using the earmark system that he opposes.

Thursday, July 29, 2010  The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday approved language calling for expedited studies of the next harbor deepening project in Charleston.