Aqaba, Jordan-India’s Afcons Infrastructure Ltd. has been awarded a US$240 million contract to build a new phosphate rock terminal in Aqaba for Jordan’s Phosphate Mines Co. The terminal would handle 4 million mt/y. In turn, Denmark’s FLSmidth & Co. says it has been awarded a contract worth $87 million from Afcons to assist in the project. The scope of supply will include design, engineering, manufacture, supply, transportation of mechanical and electrical equipments to the site, fabrication, erection, testing, and commissioning, as well as training of the terminal’s personnel and performance testing. FLSmidth expects the deal to contribute to earnings through the end of 2012.
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