For a contract value of Rs 139.13 crore, Knowledge Marine & Engineering Works received a Letter of Award (LoA) from the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India for ‘Dredging and providing maintenance for least available depth of 7.9 M on Access Channel and Port basin at Sittwe Port and least available depth of 2M on Kaladan River for Shipping and Navigation in KMTTP, Myanmar’.
The project will take two years and seven months to complete. At an additional cost, the project might be prolonged for another two years. Knowledge Marine & Engineering Works, the lead partner, and Sahara Dredging, another partner, have been given the task.
