The project With its new container terminals almost doubling the port’s commercial capacity, the East Port Said Development Complex will be Egypt’s foremost transhipment hub. Keller’s ground improvement contract involved leading the design and installing pre-fabricated vertical drains across eight million square metres of reclaimed land. These act as water channels, taking pore water out of the soil so that the ground consolidates faster. The challenge East Port Said Development90,000 kilometres of vertical drains had to be installed in just 12 months, the biggest challenge was the organisation of the work to plan across such a large area. The solution The lead design was governed by Keller and completed by experienced consultants. The nal design was based on the soil investigation data c

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