Shapir

About Shapir Group The Shapir Group is one of Israel's largest and leading industrial and infrastructure concerns. The Group, celebrate this year 50 years of founding, is a leading manufacturer of raw materials for the construction industry, and owns concrete and asphalt manufacturing plants, and quarries throughout Israel. The Group also initiates... and carries out large infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges, and tunnels, including construction projects on a concession basis, such as public buildings, parking lots, and residential property. Among the complex infrastructure projects, Shapir Engineering is building the Gulf Port at an estimated cost of NIS 4 billion. The project will be launched in 2015 and is expected to be completed in 2021. The rapid pace of construction in the project is expected to speed up its delivery before the deadline. The area of the new port is 810,000 square meters (810,000 square meters), and construction has been done to extend a main breakwater at 882 meters and build a 2.1-km secondary breakwater. The marine excavations included digging 14 million cubic meters of sand and clay, drying the sea and filling 10 million cubic meters of sand. At the end of the project, the port is expected to provide a capacity of 1.1 million containers per year.Read More