Sim Chi Yin Land reclamation works are on-going at this area of Tuas, Singapore's westernmost area where a new massive container port -- the world's largest in the next 30 years -- is being built. The port aut
(...) hority is using materials dredged from the nearby seabed and earth excavated from tunnelling work on a subway line to cut use of sand by about 70 per cent in the building of this pier -- which will be one of four eventually. Singapore has been short of sand for its sizeable and continual land reclamation and construction work, having bought sand from its neighbouring Southeast Asian countries for decades. Tuas. Singapore. 2017. From "Shifting Sands", 2017 — on-going. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos
