Cairo – Mubasher: Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Tuesday signed a contract with the Dutch company Royal IHC to design and construct two custom-built 29,190 kilo watt (KW) heavy-duty rock cutter suction dredgers (CSDs).
“The new state-of-the-art CSDs from Royal IHC will enable SCA to participate in deepening and widening the waterway and help realise the Egyptian plan to develop local ports,” SCA's chairman and managing director Mohab Mameesh said.
The installed cutter power is 4,800 kilo watt (KW), Mohamed Ibrahim Eldesouky, the acting director of dredging department in SCA said.
The revenues of operating the dredgers will reach $60 million annually.
"We are honoured that SCA has placed its trust in our company once again,” IHC’s executive director sales Arnold Den Boon stated
“We are also proud that our long-standing relationship has resulted in the award of this contract and are looking forward to further strengthening our partnership.” Den Boon concluded.
