Civil marine work on the new container terminal at Ruwais for the Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge), a joint venture owned 60 per cent by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) of the UAE and 40 per cent by Borealis of Denmark.

Work, being carried out by contractor Six Construct to the design of consulting group Mouchel, includes 330 m of 15-m high blockwork quay wall with a 30 m wide paved apron on the quayside to support two container cranes. Some 700 m of adjacent coastline will be protected by a revetted slope of rock armour.

Six Construct, a Middle East operating arm of Brussels-based contractor Besix, won the design and construct contract for the marine civil engineering facilities, with Mouchel acting as its detail design consultant and Boskalis as the dredging subcontractor.

The new container terminal is the export facility for a new polyethylene production plant being built by Borouge on a site alongside Ruwais Port in Abu Dhabi. Tecnimont of Italy is the general contractor responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of the polyethylene unit.

Mouchel project manager Keith Davies said: ''We started design work earlier this summer in anticipation of the site being available for the contractor in late September. Marine construction work is set for completion in December 2000.''

The UK-based Mouchel is an independent group of engineering, management and environmental consultant with 1,150 professional and support staff working worldwide on policies, strategies, project development and asset management for major infrastructure projects.