With its 37% consortium share, Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções, S.A. leads a consortium that includes SETH – Sociedade de Empreitadas e Trabalhos Hidráulicos, S.A. (33%) and Armando Cunha Cabo Verde, S.A. (30%) that received the tender for undertaking the expansion and reformation works for Porto Inglês, on Maio Island, Cape Verde.
The works are estimated to last 18 months according to the contract and were allocated to the consortium for a sum equivalent to 17.2 million euros, with 69.18% received in Euros and the rest in Cape Verde escudos.
The works include preparing the execution project and all reformation works of the existing pier bridge, execution of the cantilever sheet pile walls and protruding breakwater, expansion of piers with the execution of a Roll-on/Roll-off platform on concrete piles with metal casings, reformation and expansion of existing embankment, in addition to accessory refurbishment of buildings and railway access to the port
The execution of this work also marks the return of the Teixeira Duarte Group to Cape Verde, since carrying out maritime works in 2014 on the island of São Vicente.