INTRODUCTION The Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transport awarded Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. two contracts for dredging an access channel and turning basin at the Cuyutlán liquefied natural gas import terminal on the west coast of Mexico. SCOPE OF WORK This first phase of the project required the construction of an access channel and the deepening of a lagoon to create part of a turning basin. Due to two existing bridges it was required that the dredging equipment was mobilized to Cuyutlan on top of pontoons so it could be offloaded onto the shore and transported over land for several hundreds of meters and launched into the lagoon before the dredging operations could commence. This port expansion project was driven by a need to cater to larger vessels and futu

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