The Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) in collaboration with Kuwait Municipality (KM) has awarded a contract to implement a solid waste project to a consortium led by French company, Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée (CNIM).

The Kabd Municipal Solid Waste Project covers a 25-year investment period, in addition to 44 months for designing and construction. 

The new facility will be located in the Kabd area in a distance of approx. 35 km from Kuwait City with an area of 500,000 m². It will have capacity to treat approximately 2,971 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste using a waste to energy technology to generate electricity. Recovery of remaining slag and flue gas will be disposed into separate sanitary landfills on the site.

The consortium, which also includes Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) and Al Mulla Group, will be required to ensure the facility is available for use and to accept and treat waste transported to the facility. In return, it will receive an availability payment from the government. In addition, an electricity offtake agreement will be entered into between the group and the government.

As we reported in September 2015, other four groups were shorlisted for the project:

• EVN Umweltholding und Betriebs GmbH, International Financial Advisors (IFA), KCC Engineering & Contracting Co. (KCCEC), Steinmuller Babcock Environment GmbH (SBE);

• URBASER S.A. (ACS Group), Babcock & Wilcox, Veolia Proprete SAS, National Cleaning Co. (NCC);

• Suez Environnment SAS, Itochu Corporation, Kharafi National KSC;

• FCC Medio Ambiente S.A., International Company for Water and Power Projects (ACWA Power), Beatona, Fouad Alghanim and Sons General Trading and Contracting Company (FASGTC).