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In Porto Sudeste, Brasil, the Porto Sudeste SA joint venture company JV has awarded the capital dredging works for deepening of the channel and turning basin of their port in the Sepetiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro, to Dragabas (DEME’s subsidiary in Brasil), including rock blasting and drilling works.

In Miraflores, Panama, Dredging International Panama (DEME’s subsidiary in Panama) will perform the maintenance dredging works at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal at Miraflores Approach and Balboa Reach. A volume of close to 2 million m3 of dredged material needs to be removed from the approach to the Miraflores locks and in the area of the New Fueling Facility Basin (NFFB) for the account of the Autoridad del Canal de Panama.

In Russia, a contract was signed between the Russian construction company OJSC USK MOST and DEME’s Russian subsidiary Mordraga for the construction of the approach channel and harbour basin of the service port of the new LNG terminal in Yamal Peninsula and sea channel in Ob Bay, some 2,500 km northeast of Moscow. Works will be executed in different phases through 2017.

In India, Adani Port & Special Economic Zone has awarded a contract to International Seaport Dredging (ISD), DEME’s Indian subsidiary, for the 2014 – 2015 maintenance dredging campaigns in the channels and turning basin of the Dhamra Port.

In Africa, maintenance works in the ports of Tema and Takoradi have been awarded to Baggerwerken DeCloedt. Works include maintenance and deepening works in the port area in various soil conditions for the Ghana Port and Harbour Authority.

Most recently, the Soai Rap dredging project (Phase 2) was inaugurated in Vietnam. The project will allow larger vessels to navigate through the Soai Rap channel and ease the access to Ho Chi Minh City’s Hiep Phuoc Port and the relocated ports along the Saigon River.

During the second phase of the dredging project, the Soai Rap passage will be dredged over a length of 54 km to a depth of 9.5m in order to accommodate 30,000 dwt fully loaded vessels and 50,000 dwt partially loaded vessels calling berths in the Ports of Hiep Phuoc and HCMC.

In the coming months and years, the city will concentrate on technical infrastructure investments, connecting inner waterways and national roadways. to connect the different ports and create an integrated maritime system of the Soai Rap navigation channel.

Ho Chi Minh City will study the third phase dredging the Soai Rap River to a depth of 11.5 m in order to receive 50,000 DWT fully loaded vessels and 70,000 DWT partially loaded vessels.

Meanwhile, in the Group’s Belgium homeland, DEME Environmental Contractors (DEC) has secured two seven year contracts with NV Waterwegen en Zeekanaal for the treatment of dredged sediments to be performed in the various treatment centres. The works areas are situated along the Bovenschelde, the IJzer and the coastal channels.

By Larz Bourne