HOW TO CREATE WEALTH WITH DREDGING IN NIGERIA - 1

Dredger

Before any dredging work can commence after the contract must have been awarded and paperwork is done and gotten out of the way, a major work must be done on the supposed dredging site to facilitate the actual dredging when it finally commences. This very important work is called SITE ANALYSIS. It involves several things such as site investigation, survey, sand search, clearing, excavation, etc.

As a local or group of locals, you can make some wealth working as a tour guide to the team of investigators during site investigation and to the team of surveyors during their survey and pegging.

Some of the site owners sometimes award contracts for manual clearing and cutting of logs rather than hiring a swamp buggy which cost nothing less than N 250,000 per day to hire, bulldozers or excavators which cost a lot of money. This can generate you some cool millions just like a certain Mr Jude while we were mobilizing Lakowe golf course work made close to N 2million from bush clearing and cutting of logs. It saved the company lots of money in the long run.

Tour guide

As a geoscientist, you can make some good money from sand searching which is the process of carrying out soil test on the area to be dredged (water or upland) to determine the soil type, the sand deposit area and its depth.

For dredge owners, land reclamation, sand and gravel dredging are among the most common source of wealth but there are lots of dredge owners who do not have projects for their equipment right now because there is no information to keep them busy and there are some communities that do not have enough land but plenty swamps and waterlogged areas and do not know there exists a solution to the problem of land shortage.

reclamation in progress

So as a well-informed local from such communities even without capital, you can liaise with the community head for your community to be reclaimed.

With this level of information at your disposal all you have to do know is to look for a dredge owner or as a dredge owner, look for a community that requires reclamation and willing to do joint ventures (JV) then start making money but this could be difficult. 

Fortunately a dredge consultant could save you the stress, by linking the two side of the business together and also handle the technical aspect of the dredging work and this is my area of specialty and your source of wealth is more or less settled without much stress as the technical part of the business will be handled by the dredge consultant.

Sand And Gravel Dredging is another good source of wealth, is most profitable within and around developing areas like in road construction (extension and dualization), buildings. As a dredge consultant, we liaise with landowners, dredge owners and the construction company for LPOs to make the juice juicer for parties involved without stress and at minimal cost.