How will dredging be carried out in Puerto Barú’s navigation channel?

Dredging in the channel will extract sand, silt, and clay using a suction dredge (a non-invasive procedure) that will operate in controlled cycles: 1 time every 8 hours, with 16 hours of rest.

The navigation channel, which is 31 km long, already has mostly natural depths that allow vessel passage, so dredging will only take place in 6 kilometers, or approximately 20% of the channel. In terms of total channel area, only 4% will require dredging.