Panel seeking $7.5M for Davisville port dredging

The port of Davisville, in North Kingstown, maintains a significant competitive advantage over every other port on the Eastern Seaboard, according to a three-year study by a special legislative commission. Though the port needs dredging, maintaining that advantage – the lack of harbor-maintenance taxes often used to pay for such work – is critical to its potential growth as one of the nation’s leading automobile import and export locations, as well as a receiver of other goods, the panel says. More

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