Driving of piles for the Port Vila Lapetasi International Multipurpose Wharf Development Project is due to start soon and is expected to take between four and six months. A total of 337 heavy steel pipes for the pilling works arrived two weeks from Vietnam aboard the freighter Thorco Amber weighing a total of 2,531,282 tons. Additional piles are due in March next year.
Toa Corporation of Japan, the main contractor, is heading the construction work for the project with assistance from subcontractor Fletcher Construction of New Zealand.
Two lines of piles will be driven – the front and the anchor piles. Following that, barges will be engaged to do dredging work.
Meanwhile, 70 to 80 per cent of the work of clearing the construction site including the old Ifira Trustees Office is now complete.
About 130 employees are working on the project, depending on the level of work required. 40 to 45 are expatriates mainly engineers coming from Japan, Philippines and New Zealand and 80 to 90 locals working in carpentry and manual jobs.
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