Van Oord awarded contract to dredge Brazilian harbour
Dutch dredging and marine civils contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract to deepen the harbour at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The contract value amounts to some € 45m.
The client is a ministry set up specifically to keep Brazil’s ports accessible for larger ships. Execution of the project will commence in 2010 and take almost a year to complete. Van Oord will dredge more than 4m m3 of material in the access channel and harbour, ranging from soft clay to mudstone.
The company will deploy a mid-sized trailing suction hopper dredger, its new backhoe Goliath, and two new self propelled split barges, each with a hopper capacity of 2,850m3.
