Unithai Shipyard has been awarded a contract from Grande Cote Operations SA – a subsidiary of Mineral Deposit Ltd, a company in Australia which operates mining fields in various countries – to build a cutter dredge that will be operated in zircon mining in Senegal, West Africa. The contract signing took place at the Unithai Shipyard on August 31.
The contract is for the construction of a cutter dredge – 42 metres long, 16 metres wide and 2.5 metres high – as well as installing the equipment for pump-feed capacity of 7,000 tonnes per hour and complete commissioning before delivery by the third quarter of 2012.