Project record

Mumbai Port 2026-29 maintenance dredging programme

Van Oord trailing suction hopper dredger Volvox Olympia working in Mumbai Port in December 2024 during the preceding maintenance-contract period

Sangam Thathi Reddy via Dredging Today; historical operating context

Mumbai Port Authority is procuring one contract for three annual maintenance-dredging campaigns across approach channels, turning circles, outside berths, Indira Dock, bunder areas, anchorages, ferry and fish-jetty areas, and other live-port locations from 2026-27 through 2028-29.

Project signal

Tender in India

Current status Tender E.47/2026 remains open; bids due 24 August 2026 under Corrigendum VI Source confidence Confirmed

Location

India / Asia Pacific

Segment

Dredging

Status

Tender E.47/2026 remains open; bids due 24 August 2026 under Corrigendum VI / Confirmed

Last checked

16 August 2026

Coverage

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Dredging is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.

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Project anatomy

Contract scope and delivery roles

Client / authority
Mumbai Port Authority
Delivery parties
Open international tender; no contractor awarded
Contract route
Single-stage, two-cover online Tender E.47/2026 under CPPP Tender ID 2026_MBPT_913633_1. Mumbai Port's live record lists six numbered corrigenda and a separate pre-bid-query response. Corrigendum VI, dated 3 August and published on 4 August, extends bid submission to 15:00 India time on 24 August 2026 and schedules technical-bid opening for 15:00 on 25 August. Neither the authority listing nor the CPPP status record shows bidder receipt, technical evaluation, financial opening or award.
Execution window
The contract covers the 2026-27, 2027-28, and 2028-29 cycles. Schedule A assigns 24 weeks from notice to commence to each annual cycle, while the technical specification requires the nominated TSHD capacity within 45 days of each annual notice. No award, notice to commence, vessel nomination, or first-cycle survey has been published for E.47/2026.
Works package
Maintain assured and directed depths across Mumbai Port's approach channels, turning circles, outside berths, Indira Dock approach, entrance, basin, harbour-wall berths and channels, Prince's and Victoria Dock Channel, Pir Pau, chemical and oil berths, deep-water anchorages, bunder and ferry areas, fish jetty, marina, and other shallow operating areas. The priced scope includes hydrographic control, high-spot removal, transport, and disposal at Mumbai Port's designated DS1 flood dumping ground.
Marine interfaces
The bidder must control no more than two TSHDs with at least 9,000 cubic metres combined hopper capacity for deeper areas. Work within 10 metres of specified quay walls and in shallow or constrained areas needs grab, backhoe, water-injection, bed-levelling, ploughing, or other approved plant. DS1 is not reserved exclusively for this contract, vessel movements require VTS coordination, and the sequence must preserve live navigation and limited berth-release windows while managing monsoon siltation.
Commercial evidence boundary
The INR 281.70 crore estimate and INR 5.64 crore bid security apply to the three-year procurement. Assured-depth areas use performance-based lump-sum pricing, while directed areas are measured in situ; quantities from the 2023-24, 2024-25, and 2025-26 pre-dredge surveys are guidance, not a guaranteed volume. The separate 2026-27 budget records INR 65 crore for maintenance dredging and cannot be substituted for contract value or physical production.

Project timeline

Material developments

Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.

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Corrigendum VI moved bid close to 24 August

Mumbai Port extended E.47/2026 bid submission to 24 August at 15:00 India time and scheduled technical-bid opening for 25 August at 15:00. The extension keeps the competition open and does not identify bidders, award the contract or start mobilisation.

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Corrigendum II moved bid close to 6 August

Mumbai Port's second due-date extension moves the E.47/2026 bid close from 23 July to 6 August at 15:00 India time. It changes the procurement calendar only; it does not disclose bidders, evaluate technical offers, open prices or award the contract.

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Mumbai Port opened the 2026-29 three-cycle tender

E.47/2026 packages three annual campaigns at an estimated INR 281.70 crore. The opening establishes the scope and procurement route; later deadline extensions do not establish bidders, award, mobilisation, quantity or accepted depth.

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The 2026-27 budget retained an annual maintenance-dredging line

Mumbai Port's budget records INR 86.02 crore actual expenditure for 2024-25, INR 70 crore revised estimate for 2025-26, and INR 65 crore budget estimate for 2026-27. These are annual accounting figures and are not the E.47/2026 contract value or dredged quantity.

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The preceding E.47/2023 package went to Van Oord

The October 2024 register records a INR 216.40 crore item-rate contract with Van Oord India, scheduled from 19 January 2024 to 30 April 2026 and then described as work in progress. It is historical incumbent context, not evidence of an E.47/2026 bid or award.

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Mumbai Port approved its dredging and dumping permission SOP

The SOP sets one-month permission, vessel-certificate, VTS, AIS, logbook, 15-day reporting, designated-ground, and unauthorized-dumping controls. It is a general compliance baseline and does not prove permission for the new contract.

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An earlier T.47A/2017 work order established the recurring programme pattern

The historical register records a INR 91.87 crore Van Oord contract covering left-over 2017-18 work and the 2018-19 and 2019-20 cycles. This confirms recurring multi-cycle procurement history without carrying old prices, performance, or contractor identity into 2026.

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Evidence gap

What remains unverified

Outstanding evidence

  • 24 August 2026 bid close and any further deadline change
  • 25 August technical-bid opening and official bidder receipt record
  • Technical qualification, disclosed bidder field, and financial opening
  • Award value, contractor identity, performance security, and annual notices
  • TSHD ownership or charter evidence and 45-day mobilisation for each cycle
  • Pre-dredge guidance quantities versus assured-depth and in-situ exposure
  • DS1 access, vessel logs, fortnightly reports, traffic windows, and accepted post-dredge hydrography

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Reporting status

Tender, confirmed confidence

Last checked 16 August 2026 across 10 cited sources. The dated timeline above carries the project events.

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