Tagged: Parallel Motion Fenders

Last year QuayQuip launched a campaign to lead the Scottish fendering market. New orders show that the strategy is well on its way to success.

Following a string of orders for Scottish ports in 2011 and 2012, QuayQuip has recently won six more, on every Scottish coastline from the very south of the country to its northernmost islands. All are due for delivery in 2013 and the total value is roughly €2 million. Read more…

QuayQuip recently upgraded the fender systems of Inner Harbour Berth 3 in Bunbury, West Australia.

The bulk woodchip berth was built in the mid-1970s. It operates on behalf of WAPRES (Western Australia Plantation Resources). Woodchip exports from Bunbury to Japan grew from just over a quarter of a million tonnes in 1976 to more than 1.5 million tonnes in 2011.

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QuayQuip has delivered another set of fender systems to the Barrow Island LNG facility in West Australia.

The centrepiece of the installation was a complete dolphin, preassembled in the factory for drop-in installation from the delivery vessel. The structure was equipped with two quad-cone (QCN1300) Parallel Motion fender systems, each rated to 3.2 megajoules.

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Last August we published an article about the QuayQuip/Marener partnership’s upgrade of Tsawwassen Berth 4, near Vancouver in British Columbia. The berth is now hard at work receiving BC Ferries vessels on their way to and from destinations across the province.

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Shown here are new Parallel Movement Fenders, among 17 on their way to Singapore for installation on berthing dolphins. Each unit weighs 50 tonnes and is designed for an energy absorption of 3.2 Megajoules.

For probably the first time ever the entire fender systems were designed using Finite Element Modelling. This, and the advanced hinge and bearing technology employed, makes the fender design the most sophisticated anywhere to date.

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The first of many large projects for the QuayQuip/Marener partnership is a complete upgrade of Tsawwassen Berth 4 in just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. Tsawwassen is part of the BC Ferries network, with services to Vancouver island and mainland destinations. The renewed facility will receive the latest and largest vessels in BC Ferries’ fleet.

QuayQuip are delighted to work with BC Ferries, with whom we share the philosophy of ‘safety first’.

A total of nine monopile dolphins are both fitted with high-performance, dual QCN Cone Parallel Movement Fender (PMF) systems which incorporate QuayQuip’s 4th generation technology in bearings and torsion arms. Each system is some 8 metres high and provides ultra low reaction which aids berthing times and passenger comfort. QuayQuip also provided QME Element based conventional fenders for the turning dolphins (roundheads) and the wingwalls (end fenders).

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A bumper crop of orders meant that May 2010 was the second most successful month in QuayQuip’s history. Our Asian offices were kept busy by three orders for Parallel Movement fenders, including some of the largest systems ever made, bringing the the final total to US$6.5 million. This proves that fendering can be a recession-proof industry, but only when manufacturers put quality and innovation first.