The North Carolina Department of Transportation recently took delivery of a new, fully customised cutter suction dredge. The 154-ft state-of-the-art pipeline dredge, designed and built by DSC Dredge, based in Reserve, Louisiana, will work to keep North Carolina?s state-maintained inter-coastal ferry channels clear, from the Cape Fear River near Wilmington to Currituck Sound near the North Carolina-Virginia state line. It will also maintain an emergency route between Stumpy Point and Rodanthe, south of Nags Head ? the route used when North Carolina Highway 12 is out of service due to a storm or other event.