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www.marinelink.com 512010-2020 envisages enhancing the draft in all major ports to at least 14 meters and some signiÞ cant ones to 17 me- ters. Dredging projects worth more than $4 billion have already been planned for execution by 2020. However, the growing demand has not been complemented by equiva-lent increases in the Indian dredger ß eet. The capacity of the few dredging players in the country is already engaged in ongoing contracts.Some ports are undertaking dredging projects to main-tain adequate draft. Key ongoing dredging projects include the deepening and widening of the Mumbai harbor channel and the JNPT channel Phase One ($ 314.2 million), capital dredging at Ennore Port (Phase Two) ($34 million) deepen- ing of the inner harbor entrance channel and turning circle (Phase Two) ($46.4million) and capital dredging for the Mumbai Port Trust offshore container terminal ($56 mil- CSD SHARDA of IMS Dredging & Infrastructure. MR #4 (50-57).indd 51MR #4 (50-57).indd 514/2/2013 4:36:10 PM4/2/2013 4:36:10 PM