The Ministry of National Planning, Housing and Infrastructure has awarded a contract to Boskalis for the development of Gulhifalhu island in Malé, Maldives.
Boskalis also executed the first phase in recent years. The scope of work for the second phase includes:
- the improvement and development of the port infrastructure;
- climate adaptive solution to rising sea levels;
- deployment of a large trailing suction hopper dredger to reclaim new land using approximately 18 million cubic meters of sand;
- rock revetment work for shoreline protection; and
- coral relocation and measures to limit the spreading of sediments in the water.
The contract was valued at approximately EUR120 million (US$131 million). For this project, a comprehensive environmental impact assessment was conducted to manage the environmental impacts of the dredging and land reclamation activities.
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