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The Houston Ship Channel's Project 11 Widening Finishes
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsPort Houston's project page describes "expediting the process to complete the work in 2029", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.[1]Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.0.69Panama Metro Line 3 Opens
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 251 daysGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…il 2027. Phase 2 is 58% complete and is scheduled for completion in October 2028, when commercial op…"A monorail crossing the Panama Canal through a new 4 km tunnel to reach the fast-growing west of the city. Estimated date.$4B0.68Cristóbal Colón Launches as the World's Largest Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE18.2 years agoOffshore Energy[3] and Dredging Today both report the Cristóbal Colón was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao on 4 July 2008.Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.0.66Meyer Werft Delivers the Norwegian Breakaway Cruise Ship
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE13.4 years agoMeyer Werft’s[2] own press release "Meyer Werft delivers Norwegian Breakaway" gives 25 April 2013 as the delivery date.Meyer Werft delivered the Norwegian Breakaway, then the largest ship it had ever built, from its Papenburg shipyard to Norwegian Cruise Line after an 18-month build. Her maiden voyage was the transatlantic crossing to New York, where she was christened; seven-day Bermuda cruises out of New York followed from 12 May 2013.0.64Vistula Spit Canal Opens, Bypassing Russian Waters
Elbląg, Poland
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE4.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the canal was officially inaugurated on 17 September 2022."Poland opened the Vistula Spit Canal, a new $450M channel letting ships reach the port of Elbląg without passing through Russian-controlled waters near Kaliningrad.$450M0.64New Harbor Bridge Opens in Corpus Christi
New Harbor Bridge, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The long-awaited, $1.3 billion Harbor Bridge opened Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas".After years of safety-related construction halts and cost overruns, the new cable-stayed Harbor Bridge across Corpus Christi's ship channel finally opened to traffic in 2025.$1.3B0.64Panama Canal Wins Approval for Rio Indio Reservoir
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "In 2024, a Supreme Court ruling overturned a law that had blocked the creation of the Indio River reservoir."Panama's Supreme Court overturned a 2006 law blocking new reservoirs, clearing the way for a dam on the Rio Indio meant to secure the Panama Canal's water supply against worsening droughts.$1.6B0.62Royal Caribbean Takes Delivery of Symphony of the Seas
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE258 days agoMiami-Dade[1] County's own release dates the groundbreaking, led by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and Royal Caribbean Group CEO Jason Liberty, to January 8, 2026.Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.$345M0.62SEA Gateway Project Completes at Seattle-Tacoma's Main Terminal
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CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE28.7 years agoAllseas[3]' own fleet page states Solitaire has operated "since her launch in 1998"; only the year is documented, not an exact day.MV Solitaire, converted from a 1972 bulk carrier into a 300-metre pipelaying ship, entered service for Allseas in 1998 and became the world's largest and most powerful pipelay vessel.0.61Icon of the Seas Enters Service as World's Largest Cruise Ship
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE2.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "She entered service on 27 January 2024 out of the Port of Miami in the United States."Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever built, entered service out of Miami after roughly two and a half years of construction in Finland.0.61
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