BMS Minerals also provides baseline infrastructure support on the ground to new and existing projects in the region through the construction of gravel roads, bridges, culverts and rainwater drains. |
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For example BMS built the first ever motor-able road down the side of the brutally steep and rocky western Rift Valley to the shores of Lake Albert, which now sees thousands of tonnes of cargo being moved monthly in and out of the valley on behalf of the various exploration companies currently operating there as well as opening up the formerly isolated, subsistence fishing communities to outside markets. Access and arterial roads have also been built in the valley bottom using locally excavated murram, with culverts, simple bridges and swamp crossings now all being in place. Many other road networks have been built for other companies and organisations in the region. |
The company maintains a small inventory of road building and maintenance equipment including a loader/back hoe, vibro-roller and agricultural tractor and trailer, mostly for repairs to existing roads following storm damage. A W170 Hitachi front end loader is retained on permanent hire and a monster Massey Ferguson 4880 recovery tractor is currently on order from UK. When larger jobs are necessitated, BMS hires in all the additional requisite heavy equipment (which in this instance is all available in country), managing it on a project basis on behalf of the client. A number of redundant flat rack 40ft containers are held in reserve, to act as small lorry-crane-portable, emergency Bailey bridges that can be deployed anywhere in the country to act as as emergency hazard crossings, at a few hours notice. |
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