The BD80 million ($209 million) project involving reclamation, dredging and harbour wall construction at the Khalifa bin Salman Port in Hidd is scheduled for completion this month, four months ahead of schedule.

Work started in January 2002 and was scheduled for completion in January next year.
The main port work was awarded to a consortium comprising Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, Nass Contracting and Nass-Murray & Roberts Joint Venture, each responsible for carrying out the dredging work, rock and revetments and construction of the quay wall, respectively.
Five million cu m of rock, all taken from Bahrain’s quarries, were used for the construction of a 1.8 km-long rock wall, at the rate of 8,000 tonnes of rock per day for the last three years.