DEME weighs anchor in Durban

11 May 2010 - Events - South Africa

After almost three years of works, on 31 March the consortium formed by DEME, a subsidiary of CFE, and Group Five handed over the enlargement works in the port of Durban, in South Africa. These port works, the most extensive ever undertaken on the African continent, involved widening the entrance to the port (from 120 to 220 m) and deepening both the shipping channel (from 12.8 to 19 m) and the port. In total, DEME and its subsidiary Dredging International dredged more than 10 million cubic metres of sediment.