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May 22 2006

MTCC Wins $86 Million Wastewater Pipeline Contract

Beirut (APD) - Kuwait-based Mushrif Trading and Contracting Company (MTCC) won a contract worth KD 24.88 million ($86 million) to construct a wastewater pipeline for the Kuwaiti ministry of public works, the company announced Monday on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) website.

Established in 1968, MTTC is one of Kuwait's major contracting firms and newly listed on KSE as a company in the services sector. Trading in the company's shares started Monday.

The two-year contract includes the construction and maintenance of a sewage wastewater pipeline for the Data Monitoring Center in Sulaibiya Wastewater Treatment Plant, from which water will be pumped to the Wafra farms and landscape areas for irrigation.

One of four wastewater treatment plants in Kuwait, the $395 million Sulaibiya plant started operations last year with a capacity to treat 375,000 cubic meters of wastewater per day.

According to another MTCC announcement on the KSE website, the contracting group achieved net profits of KD 317,259 in the first quarter of 2006.

On its debut day Monday, the MTCC share price declined by 8.33% to close at KD 0.55 compared with the opening price at KD 0.6. The number of trades reached 81 transactions with a total traded value at KD 437,600 for 765,000 shares. The company had listed 30 million shares. [TS]

By Nadim Issa, APD Staff Writer in Beirut

© APD (Arab Press Digest) 2006

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