Boskalis Land Dredging Works in Singapore

Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster joins a consortium which has been awarded a 1.46bn SGD contract for the port development project Tuas Terminal Phase II in Singapore.

Boskalis will deploy a range of dredging plant in executing its 30% share of the project, which is valued at some €300m. Boskalis’ consortium partners include Japan based Penta Ocean Construction Company and Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Company.

The Tuas Terminal Phase II project, also known as Tuas Terminal Finger Pier 3, is part of the ongoing Tuas Port project and includes the design and construction of 387 hectares of land reclamation works bounded by 9.1km of caisson walls. The nearly 30m high caissons designed for this project will be amongst the largest ever used anywhere in the world.

Boskalis will execute various dredging and civil engineering activities within the scope of works, including deepening the port basin and access channel, dredging of a sand key and managing the supply of sand to create the new land. The dredging and land reclamation works will be executed by a medium sized trailing suction hopper dredger working with grab and backhoe dredgers as well as long distance bulk carriers.

The government of Singapore is currently planning to consolidate all of its container terminal operations in Tuas by 2040. When completed it will almost double the volume of containers handled in Singapore last year to some 65m TEU.

Works commencing early this year will span a nine year time frame and are expected to be completed in 2027.

Closer to home, Boskalis is in a consortium with Van Hattum en Blankevoort (Royal Volker Vessels) and TBI subsidiary Mobilis to execute a €100m contract for the Port of Rotterdam Authority to build quay walls and a jetty and related activities for the construction of a new tank terminal in the port. Boskalis share is valued at €34 for a project commencing early this year and due for completion at the end of 2019.

Source: Maritime Journal