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QuayQuip has carried on its earlier successes in Equatorial Guinea by delivering another three orders in 2012, with a total value of €721,000.

Downstream of Cogo on the Río Muni estuary, Akoniki Wharf took delivery in January 2012 of eight sets of QCN 1300 Cone fender systems fitted with panels 3.7m high by 2.3m wide, and six QPA 800×3000L Arch fenders.

A month later, twenty-seven sets of QPF 2500×4000 Pneumatic fenders were installed at the container quay in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea on Bioko Island.

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The Kenyan Navy’s latest vessel, the KNS Jasiri, has docked in her new home port of Mombasa at a berth equipped with QuayQuip fender facings.

At QuayQuip’s advice the jetty’s existing timber facings were replaced by piles installed in front of the quay structure, protected by machined UHMW-PE facings. QuayQuip supplied 41 sets of panels with 6000×300mm contact areas, each 100mm thick.

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Toward the end of 2010 we featured a radical new floating berth design for London Mining’s iron ore facility in Marampa, Sierra Leone.

QuayQuip’s specialist engineers are now installing and commissioning the berth. In the coming weeks, barges of 20,000 tonne displacement (16,000 tonne DWT) will arrive to begin the transfer of iron ore to ships moored in deeper water.

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QuayQuip will supply the Port of Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, with a comprehensive upgrade to its fendering and mooring equipment.

Working with contractors SAIPEM (part of the ENI group) QuayQuip will deliver 54 sets of QCN 1400 Cone Fender systems with 3.45m panels. Related orders include Tricorn Bollards rated to 150t, chosen for their superior line angle characteristics, and a full set of access ladders.

Pointe Noire has been a busy port since its opening seventy years ago. The first deepwater port south of Dakkar, it lies 150km North of the mouth of the River Congo, and connects to a transnational rail network via a nearby terminal. The port serves container ships, oil tankers and bulk carriers.

QuayQuip has supplied the port of Malabo with QPF Pneumatic fenders. Sited on the coast of Bioko Island, the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea, Malabo serves general cargo and bulk vessels from 10,000 to 100,000 DWT.

Seventeen sets of 2.5 x 4m QPF Pneumatic Fenders were fitted with catenary chains to allow rise and fall against the face of a new concrete caisson structure.

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QuayQuip has just won another major order for an iron ore transhipment berth, following the recent success with Moma Sands. The London Mining plc’s Marampa Iron Ore Mine will be served by a barge loading facility at Thofayem, 50km upstream of from the Sierra Leone capital Freeport, on the southern bank of the Port Loko River. The installation will be QuayQuip’s largest true ‘Flat Pack Port’ to date.

London Mining plc was founded in 2005 to supply ore to the global steel industry. Headquartered in the UK, it currently operates in Africa, the Americas, the Arabian peninsula and China. Marampa was acquired in 2006. The mine first operated between 1933 and 1975; approval was recently granted to London Mining to restart production. The facility is eventually expected to handle between five and eight million tonnes of ore per year.

In mid-October 2010, QuayQuip tendered for the manufacture and supply of the entire berth. The winning design’s main structure is a series of 22 floating, interlocking platform sections, each 12m long and 3.5m wide: a total length of 260m, 45 guide piles and a 30m gangway, all supplied by QuayQuip.

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Four years ago a trans-shipment jetty was built on the Mozambique coast to serve the Moma Sands mine, enabling the transfer of titanium ore and other heavy mineral ores to large vessels moored offshore.

The initial fender installation was not up to capacity for normal operations. QuayQuip are replacing the four existing single-cone systems with tougher double-cone systems that absorb quadruple the energy, and adding four more on the opposite side to create a double-sided berth. New Donut fenders (also known as ‘monopile fenders’) guide motorised, self-loading/unloading barges safely around the end of the jetty. Read more…