Source: Richard Stradling, GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, 1/10/22

The Port of Wilmington can handle the largest container ships that call on the East Coast, but only if those ships aren’t full. That’s because the shipping channel in the Cape Fear River is not deep enough. The channel, which runs 26 miles from the docks to the ocean, is 42 feet deep at the lowest low tide. It would need to be 47 feet deep to handle many of the fully-loaded ships that now call on East Coast ports, says Brian Clark, the executive director of the N.C. State Ports Authority.

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