Tomorrow is the inauguration of the New Suez Canal. Dutch companies Boskalis and Van Oord, as part of a consortium of partners, dredged a record breaking 200 million m3 of sand, clay and rock in less than 9 months. By comparison, the Maasvlakte 2 project to expand the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands involved dredging 240 million m3 in three years.
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