TWO high production portable water drills, capable of digging at a depth of 2,500 feet, are among 52 pieces of equipment which were off-loaded Wednesday at Guyana National Industrial Corporation wharf and destined for BK International Inc. The shipment, purchased at an auction in Texas, is worth approximately US$2.5M, and is being made at a time when BK International, a vertically integrated company, is continually attempting to diversify its operations in new areas of investment.

This Cullen Bess Nelson composite shows one of the portable water drills being off-loaded and some others aboard the vessel.

The shipment is also timely, as 80 per cent of the equipment will be used by the company on a road construction project to be executed from the Timehri Police Station to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.
The US$1.62M project entails widening the existing two lane roadway to a four-lane roadway.
The remaining equipment will be used at BK Quarries Inc. at Teperu/Itabu, Mazaruni River, where further expansion and development plans are on the cards.