Immediately after D-Day the Allies deployed two artificial harbours in Normandy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour).
Now looks like USA are planning to create an artificial port in front of Gaza to help distributing food and medicines to the civilians.<p>My question: the Mulberry harbours components were built in UK over a period of one year.<p>How long would it take to create an equivalent structure today?
Is there any information about USA Engineer Corps having something already available for this kind of situations?
I found something (now that we know what the USAF is actually doing):<p><a href="https://alu.army.mil/alog/2012/janfeb12/PDF/jan-feb2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://alu.army.mil/alog/2012/janfeb12/PDF/jan-feb2012.pdf</a> [Army Sustainment magazine has an article about "port opening"]<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Frank_S._Besson-class_support_vessel" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Frank_S._Besson-class_...</a> Wikipedia on the ship sent to start building the port for Gaza<p>Finally, you can downwload (for 27€) chapter "Rapid Port Opening" from book "Delivering Victory" by Richard E.Killblane: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-603-520191011" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-603-520191011</a><p><a href="https://www.army.mil/article/232795/joint_task_force_port_opening_elements_train_to_provide_rapid_deployment_options" rel="nofollow">https://www.army.mil/article/232795/joint_task_force_port_op...</a>