A volume of over 1 million m3 will be dredged.
The Port of Buenos Aires is with 1.2 million TEU’s Argentina’s major container port and moves yearly a volume of over 12 million tonnes.
Jan De Nul NV is well known in Argentina as its sister company Hidrovia SA is the concessionaire for the dredging and signalization of the Hidrovia waterway between Santa Fe and the Atlantic Ocean, over a length of 800 kilometres under an 18 year contract starting in 1995.
A total volume of 5.3 million m3 will be dredged to
a depth of -11.0 m and partly to -12.5 m.
Since dredging has to take place in relatively shallow
water depths, first the medium sized trailing suction
hopper dredger 'Francesco di Giorgio' will be deployed.
The works are scheduled to start in July 2009 and will take thirteen months to complete.
After the extension of the breakwaters, this contract is
the second step in the major expansion of the
southern facility of Rio Grande, doubling the cargo
capacity of the port to 50 million tons by 2014.
The scope of the contract comprises the removal of
17.4 million m3 at the 24 km channel of one of
Brazil’s key ports.
The contract will be executed in 2 phases.
With this deepening, the post-panamax vessels that
actually call on Rio Grande, will no longer be limited
in load by the depth, resulting in significant cost
reduction.
The job consists of the dredging and reclamation of
more than 6 million m3 from a sand deposit located
about 25 miles from the tourist beach in Cancun.
Sand will have to be pumped on the beaches of Cancun, Playa del Carmen and on the island of
Cozumel.
Source: Jan De Nul Group, June 2009
Jan De Nul Group continues its Latin American course
Capital Dredging in the Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina
The total contract value is 60 million Pesos or 16 million US Dollars.
Jan De Nul will deploy its 3,400 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger 'Nina'.
The dredging consists of the widening and deepening of the turning basin and the interior channel of the port.
The project has made possible the enormous increase in exportation that Argentina has known in the last decade, in particular in the agricultural sector.
Dredging of Access Channel and Turning Basin in Port of Buenaventura, Colombia
The total value of the
contract is around 50 million Euros.
All materials
have to be deposited at sea at an average distance
of 36 km.
Once access is gained, the larger hopper dredger 'James Cook' will follow and transport the remaining volume to sea.
The cutter suction dredger 'Hondius' will dredge the harder material of the access channel and part of the turning basin and berth pocket.
Deepening Dredging in the Port of Rio Grande, Brazil
The total contract value is 196
million Reais or 101 million US Dollars.
Jan De Nul will deploy its 16,500 m3
trailing suction hopper dredger 'Juan Sebastian de
Elcano'.
During the
first phase the channel will be deepened, after which
the whole will be maintained at depth for 2 years.
On the other hand this work will enable Rio
Grande to become a main player in the area, and
should gain cargo, such as grains from the River Plate
area, Paraguay and Bolivia, ore from Mato Grosso do
Sul and Bolivia and containers of the same region.
Brasilia is investing around 1.6 billion Reais in dredging
the country’s major ports in the National Dredging
Program (PND).
Beach Restoration Works in Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Cozumel, Mexico
The total contract
value amounts to 45 million Euros.
Additionally, two underwater breakwaters
will be constructed to protect the beaches from erosion.