23NOV2018 - NEWS - Lyttelton Port Company completes Lyttelton Port dredging project

Lyttelton Port Company (LPC) has recently on yesterday announced that on the weekend she left Lyttelton bound for Singapore, as her role in the dredging project is complete. The Fairway has lengthened the channel by approximately 2.5km, widened it by 20 meters and deepened it by up to two meters. For the past 12 weeks, locals and visitors to Lyttelton Port had the opportunity to see one of the world’s largest dredges, the Fairway, travelling up and down the channel carrying out the port’s deepening project. The Fairway – owned by global operator Royal Boskalis – has 33 crew working six-week rotations to keep dredging the channel 24/7. She has dredged more than five million cubic meters of mud and silt off the sea floor.

Published by Editor - www.Livebunkers.com at 23-Nov-2018 05:51:40 [UTC] , contact editor at editor@livebunkers.com