A joint venture of Van Oord and Boskalis has won a €110m (£95m) dredging contract at South America’s largest port.

The work at the port of Santos port has been commissioned by the Brazilian Ministry of Transport, Ports & Civil Aviation.

Studies will be carried out in the coming months and the design of the navigation channels and berths of the port will be reviewed. Subsequent dredging operations are expected to start later this year with the deployment of various trailing suction hopper dredgers and a backhoe dredger. The dredging activities are expected to be completed in 2018.

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