Galfar Engineering and Contracting has experience of 15 years in executing marine construction projects like ports, harbours, jetties, seawalls and breakwaters in the sultanate.
From 1994, Galfar has been executing marine projects like commercial and fishery harbours, breakwaters and quay walls, dredging and reclamation, coastal landscape development, developing quarry and rock production, pre-casting of Core-Loc, quay blocks, steel and concrete pontoons and seawater intake and outfalls.
J K Salvi, vice president, business development and tendering, Galfar, said, "The marine construction capabilities of Galfar have been proven time and again. Our marine construction personnel are the best in their field and our fleet of equipment including barges, cranes, and dredgers of all kinds is one of the most extensive in Oman. We have successfully completed a wide range of complex marine construction projects like ports, harbours, jetties, seawalls and breakwaters, and Galfar has the expertise to meet every marine construction need."
The company has handled projects like the jetties at Little Quion Island and Wudam, fishery harbours at Sur, Dhalkut, Lima, Sohar and Seeb, port at Khasab, dredging at fishery harbour at Al Ashkara, drydock and ship repair yard at Duqm (JV) and Halaniyat Island mooring facilities for clients like the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Fisheries, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry of Defence and Abu Dhabi Nati-onal Oil Company. For some of the projects, Galfar joined hands with consultants like Scott Wilson Kilpatrick, W S Atkins International, Consulting Engineering Services, Ibn Khaldoon and Sir Gibbs Peter Muller & Co.
"From execution of technically, logistically and administratively challenging project at Khasab to construction of works with only marine access to Kumzar and Lima to a marine project in a very remote location of Dhalkut near Yemen boarder, our team has vast experience in the sultanate," Salvi added.
Galfar team has also successfully implemented Armour Technology using Core-Loc and Accropode, use of alternative methods for underwater rock breaking and dredging with the use of amphibious dredgers.
The company, as with the case of marine projects, establishes the real requirements at the site by interacting with the consultants for review of design, provides data for physical model testing, witnesses model testing, redefines and redraws with respect to changed conditions.
© Muscat Daily 2012
