Category: Waterways

In 2011, QuayQuip was challenged by Transport for London to design a floating impact protection system for the new Emirates Air Line – an ambitious cable car route across the River Thames.

Working in close collaboration with the main contractors, Mace, and consultants Buro Happold and Royal Haskoning, QuayQuip had to prepare a floating barrier capable of safely dissipating large energies, and have it ready for delivery in time for the cable car entering service by summer 2012.

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QuayQuip helped bring the 80 year old Van Cauwelaertlock up to the latest berthing and mooring standards with the installation of both fender systems and bollards.

Two large V-fender systems made from 18 QME-1250 element fenders protect the lock corners. A further seven 2.4 metre long PFS 300 extruded fenders were installed. All systems use 100% virgin grade UHMW-PE for longer service life.

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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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One of the last remaining drydocks serving London’s busy river traffic recently moved from Badcock Wharf in Greenwich to a purpose-built facility at nearby Bay Wharf.

To support the floating docks when moored or repositioned, a series of nine monopile dolphins were fitted with 2.2m diameter Donut fenders.

QuayQuip Donut fenders (also known as ‘monopile fenders’) use the revolutionary Flosys technology for a higher performance and greater longevity than legacy types.

Bay Wharf follows another recent QuayQuip Donut installation on the River Thames.

 

 

 

In late 2009, the refit began of six chambers at three large locks along the Juliana Canal, near the villages of Born, Heel and Maasbracht in the Netherlands.

The oldest lock in Born was built in 1930. The lock chamber was emptied during restoration which included replacing 200 sets of original iron rails, repairs to the concrete walls, fitting 158 new safety ladders and other remedial work. The lock reopened for shipping in December 2009.

Each lock chamber was extended to 225 metres, allowing access for vessels up to 190m long, 11.4 beam and 3.5m draft.

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