DEME Awards Mauritius Dredging Contract

Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME has won a €41m dredging contract for the Container Terminal Quay Project at Port Louis Harbour in Mauritius.
DEME awards the contract which is an extension project for the Mauritius Container Terminal to accommodate larger vessels and to handle an incremental increase in container traffic.

The scope of work for DEME will include dredging in various soil conditions, including rock. The works will be executed by the heavy-duty rock cutter dredger Ambiorix.
Works will start by December 2016 and are expected to be completed by June 2017.
In addition to this contract, DEME, the French construction group Eiffage and Eiffage’s subsidiary RMT Clemessy has been awarded a €47m contract for the extension of the Freeport Terminal in Sierra Leone.

The Freetown Terminal, operated by the French group Bolloré Transport & Logistics, is undergoing an expansion program that calls for the construction of a new 270m quay to accommodate vessels with a draft of 13m. The Bolloré group intends to increase the total capacity of the container terminal to 750,000 teu. Works started recently and are expected to be completed in August 2018.

The news is collated by Globaldredge.com – Dredging Pipeline Supplier.