Three Gorges Waterway New Channel: Gezhouba Shipping Expansion Main Works Begin

The shift from preparatory work to main construction is the milestone that matters: cofferdams are what convert a project from a plan into a physical asset with a schedule. For bulk and container flows on the Yangtze, the constraint has long been lock capacity at Gezhouba rather than the Three Gorges lock itself, so this addresses the pinch point that shapes transit times and barge economics. The open question is whether the dry-land phase proceeds on schedule, since any slippage keeps the existing capacity ceiling in place for shippers and ports that have already planned around it.