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Assigned to the Dravo Spanish the work of ordinary maintenance of the backdrops of the port of Gioia Tauro
The contract has a value of beyond 2,5 million euros
June 3, 2019
The Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has adjudicated the Spanish Dravo S.A, that Van Oord takes part of the Dutch group, the contract of the value of beyond 2,5 million euros for the execution of the work of triennial ordinary maintenance of the backdrops of the calabrian port, than to the dock High backdrops meters have a depth of -18. The program previews six participations for every annuity and heads for the leveling of submarine dunes. The harbour agency has explained that by the results of a deepened bathymetric analysis on the backdrops in fact it is stated that the dunes are mainly created by the dynamic action of the propellers of the ships during the maneuvers of departure and berthing to the harbour docks, that they move sand masses from a point to the other of the basin.
By cronoprogramma every two months, organized will be carried out an participation based on various types of requirements. Annually, the project previews two participations of leveling with average self-loading and autorefluente dredge and other four of leveling also using of different type.
Without some removal of sandy material, the operations will not have quantitative limits and will have to be executed guaranteeing a every day production, in terms of total of material to level, not inferior volume to 6 thousand cubic metres, if carried out with dredge, and not inferior to 3 thousand every day cubic metres with other marine means. To every participation a propedeutico bathymetric relief will correspond to assess of the good resolution of the work. Based on the requirements found, the project includes, in fact, the possibility to not only level the backdrops in an area of the more extensive channel and along the adjacent harbour basin the docks.
The extraordinary commissioner of the harbour authority, Andrea Agostinelli, has specified that the agency has for a long time and with planned farsightedness this participation own in order to return the perfectly fit for use and operating docks of the port of call for moorings of portacontainer of advanced ability to 20 thousand teu. "With the arrival of these ships, and with I renew of means of dock - it has emphasized - the port of Gioia Tauro will return to competitive being in the Mediterranean".
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