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Marine Civils by David Foxwell

'Mega Trailer' Dredging for Shams Abu Dhabi

01 Sep 2006

Royal Boskalis Westminster's mega trailer Queen of the Netherlands has begun dredging and reclamation operations in the waters of Abu Dhabi for Sorouh Real Estate's Shams Abu Dhabi project on Reem Island.

Queen of the Netherlands has started work on the Shams Abu Dhabi project.

Sorouh awarded the dredging contract for Shams Abu Dhabi to Pal Technology with Boskalis Westminster as its subcontractor with Ghantoot Contracting responsible for the rock revetment.

With a massive quantity of sand required for the company's flagship project, some 4.3 million m 3, the work is expected to last three months.

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