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BG to procure 2 ultra-modern dredgers soon

Wednesday, 27 October 2010


FE Report
The Bashundhara Group (BG) has decided to become a supporting force of the government in pacing up the government's capital dredging project for the major rivers and the coastal belts.
Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) joins Bashundhara Group funding Taka 500 million in this mega project.
The BG in its latest bid to help the state retrieve safer navigability in the river ways under public private partnership (PPP), recently entered into an agreement of procuring another two heavy duty and ultra modern dredgers from a renowned manufacturer and supplier of digging apparatus in the United States of America.
The dredgers are to be procured at an estimated cost of Tk 1400 million at the first phase and more procurement of the similar equipments may take place in the coming phases on the basis of need assessment.