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Cavico's Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Breaks Through and Completes the Initial Boring for the Dai Ninh Hydropower Project Tunnel

After nearly 16 months
of work on the Headrace tunnel of the Dai Ninh Hydropower project, Cavico
Corporation (PINKSHEETS: CVCP) announced that the tunnel has broken
through. The Headrace tunnel is 11000 meters in length, of which 4000
meters were excavated using drill and blast method of New Austrian
Tunneling Method (NATM) and 7000 meters were constructed using Tunnel
Boring Machine (TBM). Pictures of the project are available on the
company's website at: http://www.cavicocorp.com/tunnel_dn.html.
The Dai Ninh Hydropower Project is being constructed through a Bank Loan
from the Japan Bank of International Cooperation (hereinafter referred to
as "JBIC") and by Japan's joint venture main contractors, KAJIMA-KUMAGAI.
CAVICO is working as a subcontractor on the project and is responsible for
the Headrace tunnel and the Surge Tank construction. CAVICO has provided
approximately 300 Engineers and technicians to the KAJIMA-KUMAGAI Joint
Venture to operate and oversee the TBM.
"The Da Ninh Hydropower Project is the first project in Vietnam to utilize
the Tunnel Boring Machine," commented Mr. Son D Pham, Chief of Cavico's
Planning and Marketing Department. "This is the newest, state-of-the-art
technology for constructing tunnels, and we are proud to be applying it
successfully in Vietnam."
For more information about Cavico, please refer to the company's website
at: http://www.cavicocorp.com.
About Cavico Corporation
Cavico (www.cavicocorp.com), founded in 2000, is a major infrastructure
construction, infrastructure investment, and natural resources conglomerate
headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam. The company is highly respected for its
core competency in the construction of mission-critical infrastructure
including hydroelectric plants, highways, bridges, tunnels, and urban
community developments. One of the company's primary competitive
advantages is its ability to nurture a project "from concept through
completion" with a vertical portfolio of interrelated investment,
permitting, design, construction management, and facility maintenance
services. Cavico's project partners often include top multi-national
corporations as well as government organizations. The company currently
employs more than 3,000 people.
Vietnam's transition to a market economy has generated rapid economic
growth. The country's impending ascension to the World Trade Organization
is likely to provide an additional boost to economic growth and a further
acceleration in the country's current infrastructure construction boom.
The aggressive development of Vietnam's energy, transportation, and urban
infrastructure is absolutely essential to the country's ability to compete
internationally, and this aggressive build-out is creating huge growth
opportunities for infrastructure construction companies such as Cavico.
"Safe-Harbor" Statement
This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning
of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), including statements regarding potential sales, the
success of the company's business, as well as statements that include the
word "believe" or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Cavico Corporation
to differ materially from those implied or expressed by such
forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the risk
factors included in reports filed with the SEC under the Exchange Act.
This press release speaks as of the date first set forth above and Cavico
Corporation assumes no responsibility to update the information included
herein for events occurring after the date hereof. Actual results could
differ materially from those anticipated due to factors such as the lack of
capital, timely development of products and services, inability to deliver
products and services when promised, inability of potential customers to
pay for ordered products and services, and political and economic risks
inherent in international trade.
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