India’s heavy engineering company, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has announced that it has bagged a contract worth Rs 2,080 crore for building up of a 400 MW thermal power project at Tishreen Thermal Power Plant Extension in Syria.

The project, which is scheduled to be completed in 33 months, will entails design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of equipment.

Currently the company has a total physical export turnover of Rs 1,132 crore and planning a six fold increase in it by the end of 2012.

BHEL has a present manufacturing capacity of about 9,000 mw and plans to increase it up to 15,000 mw by the end of the current plan period (2007-2012).

The proposed order is the highest-value single order secured by the company in overseas markets.