Afcons Infrastructure bags $ 200 million job in Jordan
Joining the International EPC league
Tweet-- Afcons Infrastructure Limited, a part of 50 year old Shapoorji Pallonji Group Company, has secured an EPC Contract worth of USD 200 million for the New Rock Phosphate Terminal, Aqaba from the state-owned Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) in Jordan. This is the first project bagged through competitive bidding by Afcons Infrastructure in Jordan.
Mr N Selvaraj, Director (Operations) for the Marine SBU, said, "Considered to be one of the big EPC projects bagged by us, this contract puts Afcons in the EPC League for large contracts and also provides a platform for getting additional marine works at Aqaba port, Jordan, Iraq and other countries in Gulf region".
Afcons has got its presence in Middle East and Africa and have done works in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, Madagascar and Mauritius.
The Phosphate terminal of Jordan will be constructed over a period of 25.5 months and the project involves building an annual 4 Million tonne export terminal including truck intake stations with dust suppression grids, truck weighbridges, truck routing system, storage facilities including three bulk flat stores (190m X 100 m) and conveying equipment and Marine Terminal including surge bins which are fed from 2kms long environment friendly pipe conveyors, two ship unloaders each 2200 tons/hr and 280 m long jetty to receive ships of 1,00,000 DWT. Also all buildings and utilities like power supply, communication, terminal lighting, drainage, sewerage, fire fighting facilities will form part of the project.
For the mechanical electrical works of material handling system, M/s. FLSmidth, Germany is subcontractors. Royal Haskoning of the Netherlands is the Project Management Consultant.
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About Afcons Infrastructure Ltd.
Afcons Infrastructure Ltd. (Afcons), the flagship infrastructure, construction and civil engineering company of the Shapoorji Pallonji group, has an experience of five decades in construction industry. Its portfolio of completed projects comprises a wide variety of infrastructure projects in India. Afcons has successfully executed more than 170 structures along the Indian coastline. It has also successfully completed more than 115 bridges, flyovers, viaducts, two LNG storage tanks, underground Metro and 24 kilometers of elevated train corridors and has executed 2,700 lane kilometers of road works.
Afcons has also successfully completed and are currently engaged in execution of projects through its international firms Afcons Construction Mideast LLC(Dubai) and Afcons Infrastructure International Ltd (Mauritius) in Middle East and Africa respectively. Among the Infrastructure and the construction companies it is known to cultivate the culture of completing projects on or ahead of schedule and also holds the recognition of being a Government recognized Export house.
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