Van Oord wins contract in Azerbaijan
Van Oord in the Netherlands has confirmed that it has signed a contract with the Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan for the new Baku International Sea Trade Port in the Alat settlement in Azerbaijan. The value of the contract is approximately €80m.
The dredging project will be executed over a period of two years and consists of dredging a navigation channel which will be 7km long and 160m wide, and a turning basin for the new port. In total, some 8.8 million cubic metres of material will be dredged and discharged.