Azerbaijan prepares tender for the construction of the Baku port

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31 Dec 2009

The Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan has received the first part of technical documentation for the construction of the Baku international sea trade port on Alat settlement in south off the country’s capital, AZ Daily News reported. Deputy transport minister Musa Panakhov says that the submitted package of documentation relating to building ground and dredging of new port canal is under active consideration.
“If no grave issues appear on documentation, then already in 2010 it will be announced a tender for construction within the first stage of new port project,” Panakhov said.
First phase of the construction is three years. Financing is envisaged from state sources within the framework of the State Investment Program.
Earlier transport minister Ziya Mammadov said that Holland’s Royal Haskoning was completing development of the Master Plan and the working project of the building of the new Baku sea port in Alat settlement.
“The Plan and project of the first stage will be prepared till the end of year, while the plan and the project of the second stage of construction of the port - till the end of March 2010. Tender procedures to choose a contractor of construction works will be finished till the end of 2009,” Mammadov said then.
Construction of the new port to be implemented by three stages will be finished by 2016.
Stage I (2008-10) envisages construction of two ferry and three cargo bridges for acceptance of containers, Ro-Ro and usual dry-cargo vessels; Stage II (2011-13): construction of three more cargo bridges; Stage III (2014-15): construction of two more cargo bridges. The project is evaluated at more than $400 million.

Source: CargoNewsAsia