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Felixstowe dredging starts for new berth extensions of 1,120 metres
WORK has commenced at the Port of Felixstowe, 70 miles northeast of London, on the latest expansion of the UK's largest container port.
VSBW Joint Venture, a consortium of VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, has been appointed as the lead contactor to extend the port's Berth 9 by 190 metres.
The work will increase the combined lengths of Berths 8&9 to 920 metres, giving the port even greater flexibility to dock the world's biggest containerships.
The Boskalis Westminster dredger, the Causeway, began work on April 13 in preparation for summer construction. Dredging a million cubic metres will provide space for the berth and approaches and a new steel-piled quay wall.
"Combined with the best road and rail connections to serve the UK, the new extension will further extend our advantage as the port of choice for deep sea containership operators," said Hutchison Ports CEO Clemence Cheng.
Said project manager Ian Cussons: "We are ready to mobilise all the necessary resources in the very near future. The tubular pile design will allow the water alongside to be dredged to 18 metres."
Piling of the quay wall for the new extension will start later in the summer with construction due to be completed mid-2015. The new extension will be equipped with three new ship-to-shore gantry cranes, each with a 25-container wide outreach.
VSBW Joint Venture, a consortium of VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, has been appointed as the lead contactor to extend the port's Berth 9 by 190 metres.
The work will increase the combined lengths of Berths 8&9 to 920 metres, giving the port even greater flexibility to dock the world's biggest containerships.
The Boskalis Westminster dredger, the Causeway, began work on April 13 in preparation for summer construction. Dredging a million cubic metres will provide space for the berth and approaches and a new steel-piled quay wall.
"Combined with the best road and rail connections to serve the UK, the new extension will further extend our advantage as the port of choice for deep sea containership operators," said Hutchison Ports CEO Clemence Cheng.
Said project manager Ian Cussons: "We are ready to mobilise all the necessary resources in the very near future. The tubular pile design will allow the water alongside to be dredged to 18 metres."
Piling of the quay wall for the new extension will start later in the summer with construction due to be completed mid-2015. The new extension will be equipped with three new ship-to-shore gantry cranes, each with a 25-container wide outreach.
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