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Azerbaijan seaport project draft to be ready by next April

09 February 2009 14:48 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov - APA-Economics. Netherlands-based Royal Haskon Group, which won a tender form Azerbaijanâ€™s Ministry of Transport to develop a project engineering work for a proposed seaport project in Alat, near Baku, will complete the working draft by April, 2010.
Sadraddin Mammadov, Officer of the Ministry of Transport, said the working draft will be prepared through three phases. The first phase includes master plan and sea work designing which will be submitted by June this year. The second phase includes planning of platforms and the third phase includes planning of roads, communications and other final works.
â€œBesides, the Dutch firm will prepare tender documents to select a contractor. The contractor will be selected by August this year,â€ he added.
The first draft project of the seaport was designed by South Korean GS Engineering & Construction Co.
Azerbaijan booted the South Korean company out of the seaport construction project because it overstated the cost of the project.
The seaport project will have three overlapping phases- 2008-2011, 2011-2013 and 2012-2015.
There will be 11 berths, 6 of which will be constructed at the first phase.
The port will handle 11.6 million tons of cargo in 2015.