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Article: BAHRAIN: Construction contract award for planned $249,000,000 causeway project, GAMUDA BHD [Malaysia] Order #: 120306.
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- WWP-Business Opportunities in Africa & the Middle East
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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PROJECT OVERVIEW:
Malaysia-based GAMUDA BHD recently signed a contract that it had won in July 2006 regarding a major infrastructure construction project. According to Chan Kong Wah, GAMUDA Joint Managing Director (Engineering) & Regional Director (Middle East), the undertaking will include building 2 causeways, associated embankment works and flyovers at the Sitra Causeway as well as at Nabih Saleh island in Bahrain.
The work is intended to replace the existing 30-year-old Sitra causeway that links the main island of Bahrain to Sitra in the northeast. The project will include the: - The construction of two 3-lane causeways consisting of one 200-metre ...