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Boskalis wins €130m Russian dredging contract

25 Sep 13 Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a contract for the dredging and construction of the Bronka Port shipping channel in St Petersburg in Russia.

The total value of the contract amounts to approximately €130m (£110m).

The project for CJSC Baltstroy involves the construction of a 6km-long shipping channel, turning basin and berth pockets for the new Bronka port facility in St Petersburg. A total volume of 16 million cubic meters of clay, silt and sand will be dredged using a wide range of equipment including medium-sized trailing suction hopper dredgers, cutter suction dredgers and backhoe dredgers. The project is due to begin in spring 2014 and is expected to be completed late 2015.

Bronka is a new port facility being constructed to increase the container throughput capacity in the St Petersburg region. This contract comes in addition to the .

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