China Harbour Engineering Company

China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) is an engineering contractor and a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), providing infrastructure construction, such as marine engineering, dredging and reclamation, road and bridge, railways, airports and plant construction.[1] It is the second largest dredging company in the world, carrying out projects in Asia, Africa, and Europe.[2]

China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd
中国港湾工程有限责任公司
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryCivil engineering
Founded2005
HeadquartersBeijing, China
ParentChina Communications Construction Company
Websitewww.chec.bj.cn

Being a major operation arm of CCCC on international level, CHEC's more than 70 branches and representative offices have a global foot print in over 80 countries with a human resource strength of more than 15,000 undertaking hundreds of international projects in the total turnover of US$16 billion dollars.

History

The company was established in December 2005 during the merger of China Harbour Engineering Company Group (founded 1980) with China Road and Bridge Corporation into CCCC.[3]

Recently, the CCCC is ranked No. 165 as Global Fortune 500 Company and appraised No. 4 as Top Global Contractors by Engineering News Record (ENR).

The Southern Africa Division (SAD) of CHEC was set in 2006 in Luanda, Angola, building business in 9 countries including Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Botswana on behalf of CHEC.

Projects

CHEC has won large contracts for dredging, particularly in the Middle East and Asia. In January 2011, the company was awarded a US$880 million contract for the first phase of the New Doha port project, which involved the excavation of 58 million cubic metres of material (covering an area of 3.2 square kilometres to a depth of 18 metres) and the building of an 8-kilometre-long quay wall and a 5 km rubble breakwater.[4]

On top of its specialty as a dredger, the rest of the core business is construction in the fields of marine engineering, road and bridge, airports, power plants, railway, water supply, and environmental protection.[5] The company works on more than 100 construction projects across the world.

Building the Port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka, which will become the largest port in South Asia by 2014.

  • Construction of a port at Lolabé in Cameroon to service the Mbalam iron ore railway, signed in 2010.
  • Pan-Mediterranean Engineering Company (PMEC, the subsidiary of China Harbour) is constructing, from 2015,the Southern Terminal at the Port of Ashdod in Israel.
  • China-Maldives Friendship Bridge, Maldives
  • Mumbai Metro-4 Corridor
  • Lekki Deepwater Port EPC Project of Nigeria in 2012 The value of the contract of Phase I project is around US$679 million and the construction period is 42 months.

Costa Rica
  • Widening from two lanes, one in each direction, to four lanes, two in each direction on Route 32 between Guápiles and Puerto Limón. Project started in 2018, estimated delivery on 2020.[6]

Colombia

The general manager of Bogota Metro, Mr Andrés Escobar Uribe, announced on October 17 that Apca Transmimetro, comprising China Harbor Engineering Company and Xi’An Metro Company, has been chosen for a $US 5.16bn contract to design, build, operate and maintain Line 1 of the Bogota metro. [7]

Controversy

In 2018, Sri Lankan State Minister of Finance and Mass Media Eran Wickramaratne called for an investigation into CHEC following reports that it had funded the campaign of Mahinda Rajapaksa during the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election.[8]

The company has been under investigation in Bangladesh and The Philippines, for alleged bribery.[9][10][11][12][13]

See also

References
  1. China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd.
  2. "The world's biggest dredging companies". Reuters. 2010-03-29.
  3. "Nigeria: Lekki Port Signs EPC Contract with CHEC". Offshore Energy. 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  4. "Contractors submit bids for Doha port dredging work". Middle East Economic Digest. November 11, 2011.
  5. "Core Business". China Harbour Engineering Company.
  6. Recio, Patricia (21 September 2019). "MOPT encara a constructora china por desórdenes en proyecto de ampliación de la ruta 32". Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  7. "Chinese consortium selected for Bogota metro contract". October 21, 2019.
  8. "NYT report: Outcry to reveal probe on CHEC funding Rajapaksa campaign". Sunday Observer. July 1, 2018. Two media reports on alleging that CHEC had funded the Rajapaksa campaign ahead of the January 2015 election appeared in local newspapers in July 2015 and May 2016, citing the investigating agencies as the CID and the FCID.
  9. "Bangladesh blacklists China Harbor Engineering Co. for bribery: Report | Daily FT". www.ft.lk. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  10. "No job for China Harbour in future". The Daily Star. 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  11. "Sheikh Hasina: China, Bangladesh road project hits bribe bump; may slow down Beijing's connectivity plans - The Economic Times". m.economictimes.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  12. Correspondent, Staff. "Chinese company offers Tk 5m bribe". Prothomalo. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  13. Dizon, Nikko. "Chinese company banned by World Bank bags PH infrastructure project". Retrieved 2020-12-02.
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