Dutch dredging at home and abroad

Jurong Town Corporation awarded the reclamation project of Tuas Finger One to the consortium, comprising of Hyundai, Samsung, Penta Ocean, Van Oord and Boskalis.

The total contract value is SGD 960m and the combined Van Oord/Boskalis share is approximately €100m.

It is expected that the majority of the 24.5 million m3 of sand required for the project will be won at distance and transported to site by trailing suction hopper dredgers. In addition to the land reclamation work, the consortium will undertake dredging and construct 3.4km of quay wall. Work was set to start by August and will last until late 2018.

In its home country, the Dutch Department of Public Works and the province of Overijssel have awarded the contract for the IJsseldelta polder to Boskalis. The project is part of the national Room for the River programme, which consists of more than 30 measures aimed at providing better flood protection for areas close to the country’s rivers. The project will involve lowering the summer bed of the Lower IJssel river along a length of 7.5km near the town of Kampen and creating a bypass to the south of Kampen.

The work will be executed in conjunction with Van Hattum and Blankevoort in the Isala Delta construction consortium. Initial preparations will take place in the fall of this year with the project scheduled for completion by the end of 2019. The contract represents a value of some €127m of which Boskalis’ share is 50%.

In addition to this new contract Boskalis is already involved in several other major hydraulic engineering projects in the context of the government’s Room for the River programme. These include the Veessen-Wapenveld high-water channel, the Lower Rhine project, the Deventer project, where a total of six secondary channels of the IJssel river are being dug, and the Noordwaard project near the town of Gorinchem.

By Larz Bourne