Royal Boskalis Westminster has signed a contract with port operator Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust for deepening and widening the port and access channel of JNPT in Mumbai, India, reported Dow Jones Newswires.
The contract has a total value of approximately US$213.52 million. The dredging work will commence in September 2012 and is expected to take two years to complete.
The expansion comprises the deepening and widening of the 33.5 km long access channel, the port basins and turning basins. In total, approximately 67 million cubic metres of sand, silt, clay and rock will be removed. For this project, a jumbo and medium sized trailing suction hopper dredgers will be used in combination with a jumbo cutter suction dredger and a large backhoe.
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