Two dredging vessels - Breughel and Odin - have arrived at the port of Yuzhny, where they will conduct operational dredging of the inner water area and the port's approach channel, said Alexander Aksenov, a specialist in the Department of External Communications of the AMPU.

"On November 2, a ship-self-hauling suction dredge Breughel - of Novadeal LTD (a subsidiary of the DEME Group, Belgium) arrived to the water area of ??the Yuzhny seaport for operational dredging.. In the evening to the same berth the ship-plow Odin was moored, "Aksenova noted..

The head of the administration of the Yuzhny port Maxim Shirokov stated that "the contract with the Belgian company Novadeal LTD was the third project aimed at increasing the port's capacity and increasing its investment attractiveness. Work on the project is necessary to maintain the passport depths of the water area of ??

the port "Yuzhny" and ensure safety of navigation in the operational water areas of berths №№ 2-4, 7-9, 16,17, 3H and 38 ".

It is planned that the dredging works will continue until the end of November this year.

The budget of the project is 96 million 28 thousand UAH. The planned volume of dredging - 411 238 thousand cubic meters. The tender was conducted through ProZorro, thanks to which it was possible to save almost 2 million UAH from the expected cost of services.