Land reclamation at Giraavaru Falhu has resumed after a five-month interruption, Maldives Airports Company Limited has announced.
MACL stated that 115 hectares of the planned 167.15 hectares have been completed, representing 68.8 percent of the total. The company said work is proceeding at a steady pace but did not provide a final completion date.
The project is intended to provide housing plots for Male’ residents. Reclamation is being managed by MACL’s subsidiary Marine and Integrated Infrastructure Development. The government has issued a MVR 650.7 million loan to MACL to support the works. The loan appears in current-year expenditure estimates but was not included in the originally approved budget.
The dredger Queen of the Netherlands has been involved in the reclamation. The site has seen work stoppages in previous years related to payment and contractual issues.
