Posted on February 9, 2017
By Jason Jiang, SPLASH24/7
Dutch shipping company Royal Boskalis and its joint venture partner Van Oord have been awarded a contract by The Brazilian Ministry of Transport, Ports and Civil Aviation for the capital and maintenance dredging of the port of Santos.
The value of the contract is approximately EUR110m ($117m).
The dredging operations are expected to commence later this year with the deployment of various trailing suction hopper dredgers and a backhoe dredger. The dredging activities are expected to be completed in 2018.
Source: SPLASH 24/7
