British Achievements
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This is a digitised version of an article from The Cayman Compass's print archive. Occasionally, the digitisation process introduces transcription errors, or other problems.
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as were the great harbour works at Colombo, in Ceylon, and the Sturrock dock at Cape Town, the largest graving dock in the world. A unique technical achievement in the second world war was the construction of the 'Mulberry' artificial harbour, which was built in England and taken to France. In Ghana, British civil engineering firms have built the extensions to the Takoradi Harbour and the. £13½ million harbour at Tema, near Accra, which is the largest artificial harbour in Africa; in Nigeria, they have been responsible for the £5 million extension at Lagos, the £7½ million Escravos Bar and the large expansions at Port Harcourt; in Peru, the harbour works and port facilities at Salaverry are one of the largest such schemes in South America; in Pakistan, the large-scale extensions to Chittagong port, and in Barbados, in the West Indies, a £3-7 million new deep-water harbour, were the work of British contractors.
