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The overall goal of the measure was to reduce the harbor administration’s efforts and costs for maintenance dredging of the deposited sediment. The target of the measure was to reduce sedimentation in the harbor basin which was caused by an eddy flow (‘teacup-effect‘) at the entrance of the basin.