Eiffage signs €104m contract to build a port platform in Ghana

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Eiffage signs €104m contract to build a port platform in Ghana

Eiffage, through its Eiffage Génie Civil and RMT subsidiaries, has been awarded a 104 million euro design-and-build contract by Meridian Port Services –comprising Bolloré Transport & Logistics, APMT, and Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority– for a 97.6-hectare port platform at Tema, Ghana.

It will take four months of studies and 26 months of works to complete this project. The contract also provides for a possible 29.4-hectare extension.

The work to be done includes carrying out general earthworks, installing wet and dry utilities, building road structures, producing and laying 42 million paving slabs, constructing gantries and site access routes, creating a power station and installing various systems (including quayside and port gantry power supplies, automatic barriers, lighting and monitoring systems…).

This is the Group’s third project for Bolloré in Africa, following work at the Port of Lomé in Togo, delivered in 2016, and at the Port of Freetown in Sierra Leone which is due for completion in mid-2018.

About Eiffage
Eiffage is one of Europe’s leading construction and concessions companies. The Group’s activities are organised on the basis of the following business lines: construction, real estate and urban development, civil engineering, metal, roads, energy and concessions. Thanks to the experience of more than 63,000 employees, Eiffage generated revenues of €14 billion in 2016, of which nearly 20% outside France.

About Eiffage Génie Civil
Eiffage Génie Civil is actively involved, from design to construction, in numerous projects in France and other countries, particularly in Africa. On a daily basis, its teams work on engineering structures, facility civil engineering, underground works, maritime and inland waterway works, earthwork, demolition and decontamination, foundations and structural repairs.

About RMT
RMT (energy division of Eiffage) specialises in electrical and mechanical engineering, and process automation, in Africa and worldwide. Its multidisciplinary teams are involved at every stage of projects, from design studies to project management and from consortium supervision to site management.

Source: www.effiage.com

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