The lock will be 427 metres long, 55 metres wide and 16 metres deep.
On 14/12/2017 Sassevaart awarded the subcontract for the Fabrication of the Lock Gates and Bridges to Penglai Jutal Offshore Engineering Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (“PJOE”).
PJOE’s scope of work includes production design which means shop drawings and relative procedures preparation, materials procurement and 2 steel Bridges, 4 lock gates, 1 Recess Closure, 13 sets of levelling valves, 2 Maintenance portals fabrication, which is totaling about 11,650 tons. Besides, PJOE is also responsible for related testing, loadout and sea-fastening, transportation, delivery at Vlissingen (DAP) and as-built document preparation.
The project started fabrication from May 4th 2019 and construction is still on-going.