PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Port of Gävle is located on the east coast of Sweden in the Gulf of Bothnia, facilitating Swedish imports and exports. The client wished to improve maritime safety and accessibility, and to increase the throughput of goods in this harbor. The Swedish Maritime Administration awarded Boskalis Sweden AB the contract to achieve these objectives by widening and deepening of the approach to the Port of Gävle and upgrading the navigation aids. The following works were performed: Environmental dredging The grab dredger Kahmari 2 removed a layer of precisely 0.5 m over an area of 1,000,000 m 2 using her specially designed environmental Horizontal Profiling Grab. The material was loaded into barges and delivered to a quay wall in Gävle, where Gävle Hamn unload

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