Category: Passenger Berths

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…

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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Marine Atlantic Inc. is a federal Crown corporation that reports to the Canadian Parliament through the Minister of Transport. The Corporation provides a constitutionally mandated passenger and commercial marine transportation service between the Island of Newfoundland and the Province of Nova Scotia. Its mission calls for safety first and also stresses environmental responsibility, reliability, courtesy and value for money.

Marine Atlantic provides two ferry services. The first operates every day of the year on a 96 nautical mile route between Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador and North Sydney, Nova Scotia. The second is a 280 nautical mile, tri-weekly ferry service between Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador and North Sydney, Nova Scotia, starting in mid-June and closing late September.

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QuayQuip has just completed another pontoon fender project. The latest installation was at Rossaveel Ferry Terminal in County Galway, Ireland. The berth will serve ferries departing for the Aran Islands, historically famous for their remote monastic communities.

Three ‘finger’ piers (floating pontoons) have been equipped with thin-walled, wide bore QCY500 cylindrical fenders in a soft rubber compound. Read more…