CHEC wins dredging contract for Simandou Port Project in Guinea

China Harbour Engineering Co (CHEC), a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Co, has won a multi-million dollar contract for the Simandou Port Dredging Project in Guinea.

According to CHEC, the project has construction period of 21 months and involves dredging the access channel and harbor basin for the Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS), a consortium backed by Singaporean and Chinese companies and the Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto.

For the project, the company will deploy several of its large hopper dredgers and remove approximately 21.57 million cubic meters of clay and silt.

This will create a 22.6 kilometers long and 250 meters wide channel with the anchorage suitable for large ocean-going vessels.