Company profile

Triways Investments

Construction, shipping and supply in the Maldives.

Trading since
5 January 2003
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Our vision

To be the partner that international contractors and suppliers choose first when they build in the Maldives.

Our mission

To bring materials, plant and people into the Maldives and on to the island where the work actually is, with the permits cleared, the labour in place and the landed cost controlled.

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Twenty years of building in the Maldives.

Ali Mufeed ran the Maldives office of Hojgaard & Schultz, the Danish contractor, as Operations Executive. He held that post through the Fuvahmulah Harbour Project and the Addu Link Road, the first tarmac road ever laid in the country.

In 5 January 2003 he and his co-directors formed Triways Maldives Pvt Ltd under licence C-05/2003 to take that experience into their own contracts. Triways Investments, registered SP18972022, carries the work forward today.

Completed tarmac link road running between palms in Addu Atoll

Addu Link Road, the first tarmac road built in the Maldives.

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What we do.

Construction & Project Management

Civil and marine works on resort islands: villas, jetties, decks, sea walls and the dredging that has to happen first.

  • Resort villas, jetties and staff accommodation
  • Dredging, reclamation and beach replenishment
  • Demolition and site clearance
  • Steel fabrication and barge building

Shipping, Cargo Clearance & Handling

Vessel agency and customs clearance in the Maldives. This is the work Wakachiku and Italian-Thai Development hired us to do on their behalf.

  • Vessel handling, inward and outward clearance
  • Bunkering permits and inter-atoll travel permits
  • Air and sea freight clearance
  • Import and re-export of project cargo

Import & Export

Bringing in what a Maldives project consumes. Aggregate, armour rock, sand, pipe and plant, landed and cleared.

  • Aggregate, armour rock and sand
  • Pipe, tanks and sanitary materials
  • Plant and equipment, imported or hired
  • Purchasing and provisioning in-country
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Twenty-one projects on the record.

Delivered 2005 to 2009 by Triways Maldives Pvt Ltd, under licence C-05/2003.

  1. 01Two-storey store and staff housing, with demolition of the existing storeAngsana Velaavaru Island Resort, Dh. Atoll · Banyan Tree / Angsana
  2. 02New arrival jetty, with demolition of the existing jettyAngsana Ihuru Resort & Spa, K. Atoll · Banyan Tree / Angsana
  3. 03Picnic island development, Phase IIEthere Madivaru, Ari Atoll · Banyan Tree
  4. 04Island resort development, Phase IIAngsana Velaavaru, Dh. Atoll · Banyan Tree / Angsana
  5. 05Picnic island developmentVommuli, Dh. Atoll · Banyan Tree
  6. 06Island resort development, Phase IAngsana Velaavaru, Dh. Atoll · Banyan Tree / Angsana
  7. 07Island villasCoco Palm Boduhithi, K. Atoll · Sunland Hotels Pvt Ltd
  8. 08Beach villasLadagiraavaru, B. Atoll · Four Seasons
  1. 09Single-storey residenceDhadimagu, Gn. Fuvahmulah · Private client
  2. 10Pool barCoco Palm Boduhithi, K. Atoll · Sunland Hotels Pvt Ltd
  3. 11Picnic island development, Phase IEthere Madivaru, Ari Atoll · Banyan Tree
  4. 12Diving schoolCoco Palm Boduhithi Resort, K. Atoll · Sunland Hotels Pvt Ltd
  5. 13Sand barge constructionCoco Palm Boduhithi, K. Atoll · Sunland Hotels Pvt Ltd
  6. 14Demolition of existing water villasCoco Palm Boduhithi Resort, K. Atoll · Sunland Hotels Pvt Ltd
  7. 15Harbour dredging and beach replenishmentCoco Palm Boduhithi Resort, K. Atoll · Sunland Hotels Pvt Ltd
  8. 16Catering servicesCoco Palm Boduhithi Resort, K. Atoll · Sunland Hotels Pvt Ltd

And as local agent to the principal contractor

  1. 17Regional Port, S. HithadhooWakachiku Construction Co. Ltd, Japan
  2. 18Regional Port, HDh. KulhudhuffushiWakachiku Construction Co. Ltd, Japan
  3. 19Hulhumalé Road Project, Stage IItalian-Thai Development PCL, Thailand
  4. 20Fuvahmulah Harbour ProjectHojgaard & Schultz a/s, Denmark
  5. 21Addu Link Road ProjectHojgaard & Schultz a/s, Denmark
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Delivered, and documented.

Two excavators building a sandbar in shallow turquoise water during harbour dredging

16,000 m³

Harbour dredging, Coco Palm Boduhithi

Dredged and the beach replenished in 36 days against a 45-day programme. A sea rock measuring 50 by 30 feet, sitting in six metres of water across the channel, was removed with explosives under special permission from government ministries.

Completed resort villas and jetty at Angsana Velaavaru at dusk

64 villas

Angsana Velaavaru, Phases I to III

Ten deluxe villas with private pools, 28 Jacuzzi villas and 26 standard villas, each with boundary walls, sundecks and privacy fences. Phase I finished ahead of programme, which is why the client opened Phase II immediately.

Timber deck under construction on painted piles at Ethere Madivaru

6 months

Ethere Madivaru picnic island

The entire island built out from 25 September 2006 to 30 March 2007: guest villas and pools, arrival jetty and ramp, kitchen, stores, power house, RO plant, mosque, spa, diving school and staff accommodation.

Excavator clearing demolition debris on a resort shoreline

20 villas

Water villa demolition, Coco Palm Boduhithi

Twenty existing water villas demolished and all debris cleared using excavators, barge and dump trucks, as part of the island's redevelopment.

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Two international ports, one local agent.

Wakachiku Construction of Japan built the regional ports at Hithadhoo and Kulhudhuffushi for the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, with Niras of Denmark as consultant. On both, Triways was their appointed local agent.

Tremendously hardworking, energetic, and trust worthy.

Wakachiku Construction Co., Ltd., Japan
Mobile crane lowering armour rock into the sea at Hithadhoo port
Armour rock placement, Hithadhoo.
Completed breakwater and quay at a Maldivian regional port
Completed breakwater and quay.
Completed building alongside a new road in Hulhumalé
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Hulhumalé Road, Stage I.

Italian-Thai Development of Thailand appointed Triways as their shipping agency and customs clearance agency in February 2003, for the Hulhumalé Development Unit contract.

On completion of Stage I, the contractor commended Triways for the work carried out.

  • Shipping agency and customs clearance
  • Import and re-export of project cargo
  • Purchasing of materials and provisions
  • Equipment rentals
09

A harbour, and the country’s first tarmac road.

Both were delivered by Hojgaard & Schultz for the Maldivian government, with Ali Mufeed as Operations Executive in charge of the contractor’s office in the Maldives.

Aerial view of a completed harbour and breakwater at Fuvahmulah

Fuvahmulah Harbour Project

Ministry of Public Works

Ali Mufeed ran the Hojgaard & Schultz Maldives office as Operations Executive through this project, before founding his own company.

Completed tarmac link road with lane markings running between palms

Addu Link Road Project

Ministry of Planning and Development

The first tarmac road project in the Maldives, running 13 km from Gan to Hithadhoo, with Ali Mufeed again Operations Executive in charge of the contractor's Maldives office.

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Foreign contractors rarely struggle here on engineering. They struggle on clearance, permits and quota.

That is the job Wakachiku, Italian-Thai Development and Hojgaard & Schultz each hired Triways to do. A local agent who already holds the relationships, knows the paperwork, and is standing on the quay when the vessel arrives.

Clearance

Inward and outward vessel clearance, bunkering permits, and every piece of government shipping documentation.

Cargo

Project cargo imported and re-exported, then carried by arranged vessel right up to the site.

Labour

Quota from the Labour Ministry, recruitment, work permits and visas for the whole crew.

Purchasing

Materials, provisions and equipment rentals bought in-country, on your behalf.

Also represented: Daiho Project Services Pvt Ltd (Singapore), Sino-Thai (Thailand).

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Resorts, jetties and the seabed under them.

Banyan Tree · Angsana · Four Seasons · Sunland Hotels

Rock revetment protecting a resort shoreline with water villas beyond
Completed steel sand barge on the beach at Coco Palm Boduhithi
New arrival jetty under construction at Angsana Ihuru
Jetty and deck structure under construction at Ethere Madivaru
Completed pool bar and infinity pool at Coco Palm Boduhithi
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Dredging, reclamation and the rock in the channel.

Harbour dredging and beach replenishment, Coco Palm Boduhithi Resort, K. Atoll · Sunland Hotels Pvt Ltd, August to September 2005.

The harbour at Coco Palm Boduhithi was cut and the beach rebuilt in the same season the water villas came down. 16,000 m³ was dredged and placed in 36 days against a 45-day programme. A sea rock measuring 50 by 30 feet, sitting in six metres of water across the channel, was removed with explosives under special permission from government ministries.

A sand haul road pushed out across a turquoise lagoon toward a working excavator
A haul road driven across the lagoon to reach the channel.
Two men checking levels on a freshly built sand bund, floating spoil pontoons moored beyond
Checking levels on the new bund, spoil pontoons moored beyond.
A large mound of dredged white sand stockpiled on the shore beside a resort building
Dredged sand stockpiled ashore for beach replenishment.
A tipper truck on the reclaimed bank with lengths of pipe staged in the foreground
Spoil moved by truck along the reclaimed bank.
Stacked pipe on the beach and workers assembling a staked pipe run across the shallows
Running the pipe out across the shallows.
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A house called Ocean, a thousand kilometres south.

Single-storey private residence, Dhadimagu, Gn. Fuvahmulah · Private client, March 2006 to August 2007.

A private residence at Dhadimagu, on Fuvahmulah at the far south of the country. Cast-concrete joinery worked to look like timber, a sculpted internal water garden with its own footbridge and waterfall, and hand-painted relief murals through the verandas. It is the one purely decorative job on the record, and it shows the finish the crew can hold when that is what the brief asks for.

Internal water garden with a cast-concrete footbridge over a pond, moulded rockery and painted jungle mural
The internal water garden: cast footbridge, moulded rockery, painted relief mural.
White rendered single-storey house with arched multi-pane casement windows, a worker finishing a garden plinth
The street elevation, rendered and glazed, still being finished.
Covered veranda with sculpted tree-root columns, a rockery waterfall and a jungle relief mural
Sculpted columns and a rockery waterfall on the covered veranda.
Hand-sculpted tree and tiered rockery waterfall set against a painted forest mural
The mural wall, modelled in relief and painted by hand.
Coffered ceiling trimmed with mahogany battens around a moulded plaster ceiling rose
A living-room ceiling, battened in hardwood around a plaster rose.
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Who vouches for us.

Five letters, written by the principals themselves. Select any one to read the original.

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How the company is organised.

  1. Chief Executive Officer
  2. Managing Director
  3. General Manager

Human Resources Manager

  • HR department staff

Project Managers

  • Project administration
  • Assistant site managers
  • Engineering staff
  • Site supervisors
  • Skilled and unskilled workers

Marketing Manager

  • Marketing assistant

Procurement & Administration Manager

  • Import / export staff
  • Administration staff
  • Transport department

Accountant

  • Accounts staff

Building technology agency

Navigare International GmbHGermany

isowand vario insulated sandwich panel. Marketed and promoted in the Maldives for public housing, apartments, offices, schools, medical centres and workers' accommodation.

Building technology agency

Micro Constructions (Pvt) LtdSri Lanka

Load-bearing structural insulated panel. Over 800,000 sq ft of wall area delivered, Top Grade under ICTAD ranking, and a member of the National Construction Association of Sri Lanka.

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A second business, in Sri Lanka.

Triways Lanka (Pvt) Ltd was incorporated in October 2009 under registration PV 69464 to take a long-standing Maldive fish trade into manufacturing. Its brands, Alibe's Island Fresh and Trimo's, launched in 2017.

To redefine and maintain the quality of Maldive fish and other products, in Sri Lanka and globally, adapting modern techniques of quality management and supply chain.
  • Maldive fish chips100g / 250g / 500g / 1kg
  • Curry powders100g / 250g / 500g / 1kg
  • Sambols100g / 250g / 500g / 1kg
  • Pickles and chilli paste100g / 250g / 500g / 1kg
  • Single spice powders50g
Workers in white coats packing dried fish in a food production facility
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What a partnership looks like.

A quarry and a barge fleet can reach the Maldives. Landing the cargo, clearing it and crewing the job is a different business, and it is the one we have been in since 2003.

Their supply

Sand, Aggregate, Rock, Road and fill, Materials.

Their fleet

Tug 2400 BHP, Tug 3200 BHP, Barge 5500 DWT, Barge 7800 DWT, Barge 9800 DWT.

  • Quarry, crushers and screens producing armour rock and aggregate

    The Maldives projects that consume it, and the import licence to land it

  • Tugs and barges from 5500 to 9800 DWT

    Port clearance, bunkering permits and inter-atoll movement permits

  • Project logistics and vessel management

    Twenty years of acting as local agent for foreign principals here

  • Plant, tippers and generators

    Labour quota, work permits and visas for the crews that run them

Five foreign principals have already worked here with Triways as their agent: Wakachiku Construction, Italian-Thai Development, Hojgaard & Schultz, Daiho Project Services, Sino-Thai.

Triways Investments

Lot 11429, Second Floor, Chanbeylee Magu, Goalhi No. 9, Hulhumalé Phase 1, 20008, Republic of Maldives

Mailing: Dhadimagu, OCEAN, Gn. Fuvahmulah 18018, Republic of Maldives

+960 912 1315 · +960 775 1315

ali.mufeed@triwaysmaldives.com · triwaysinvestments@gmail.com

Registered SP18972022

Discussions are open with Aquanex Ventures Marine Services LLC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.