Hill International to Manage Construction of New Facility at APM Terminals MedPort Tangier Container Terminal in Morocco
December 05 2016 - 10:30AM
Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing
construction risk, announced today that it has received a contract
from APM Terminals MedPort Tangier S.A. to provide project
management and supervision engineering services during the
construction of a new container facility at the Tangier-Med Port
Container Terminal in Morocco. The two-year contract has an
estimated value to Hill of between approximately €5.4 million
($6 million) to €6.7 million ($7.4 million).
The Tangier-Med Port complex is one of the
largest ports in Africa. It is constructed on the Straits of
Gibraltar, a central artery of global shipping with over 200
vessels a day passing through carrying trade between Asia, Europe,
Africa and the Americas. APM Terminals MedPort Tangier is an
international container terminal operator and part of the
Dutch-based APM Terminals global terminal network – one of the
world’s leading port operators. www.apmterminals.com
“We are honored that APM Terminals MedPort
Tangier has chosen Hill to assist with this important project,”
said Waleed Abdel-Fattah, Senior Vice President and Managing
Director (Africa) for Hill’s Project Management Group. “We
are confident that our team will deliver on all expectations,”
Abdel-Fattah added.
Hill International, with 4,400 professionals in
100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project
management, construction management, construction claims and
other consulting services primarily to the buildings,
transportation, environmental, energy and industrial
markets. Engineering News-Record magazine recently
ranked Hill as the eighth largest construction management firm in
the United States. For more information on Hill, please visit
our website at www.hillintl.com.
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Hill International, Inc.John P.
PaolinSenior Vice President of Marketing andCorporate
Communications(215) 309-7710johnpaolin@hillintl.com
The Equity Group Inc.Devin
SullivanSenior Vice President(212)
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