Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Last August we wrote about a new coal facility at Puerto Neuvo in Colombia. Thanks to new video and images you can see the berth in operation.
The vessel shown is the Casta Diva, a 178,000DWT bulk carrier, as she berths alongside Prodeco’s latest direct-loading facility. Prodeco is part of the international mining corporation Glencore Xstrata. Read more…
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Northport is one of the principal sections of Klang Port, Malaysia. As part of its development programme, an order was placed at the end of 2012 for QuayQuip QCN 1150 Cone Fender systems. The systems, including UHMW-PE faced panels 1.9m wide by 5.5m high, plus chains and fixings, were delivered in April 2013.
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
Late in 2012, QuayQuip supplied fender systems to the port of Mersin, on the western coast of the Turkish region of Çukurova. There has been an important port in the vicinity for many centuries; Mersin remains a major Turkish maritime centre.
Part of an upgrade to the Nato Pier within the larger port, the original order called for 10 sets of QuayQuip QCN600 Cone fenders, anchors and 1250mm square panels with UHMW-PE facings. Another two systems were later added to the order.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Late in 2012, the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand took delivery of QuayQuip fender and mooring systems for the second Sulphur Point Wharf extension.
Sheltered by Matakana Island and Mount Maunganui, the Port of Tauranga is the only all-weather natural harbour between Auckland and Wellington. It handles more tonnage than any other port in New Zealand and is part of a developing regional port network. The Sulphur Wharf extension will allow the container port to receive Post-Panamax vessels up to 105,000 DWT.
QuayQuip designed three kinds of fender system for the project. Thirty sets of twin QCN 700 Cone Fender systems had to be closely aligned to the jetty’s existing cantilever piling. The panels were 1.1m wide by 4.1m high.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
2012 was QuayQuip’s best year yet for wheel fender orders, and 2013 could be busier still.
Last year, the historic South African naval base of Simon’s Town took delivery of fourteen sets of QuayQuip QWF wheel fenders: twelve for the drydock and one at each corner of a ship syncrolift.
Later in the year, another two QuayQuip wheel fenders were installed at the newly constructed Damen Shipyards Sharjah FZE…
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
Here are some new image of the twin QCN cone systems installed at Kerry Siam Seaport, Thailand. We first discussed this installation in August 2012. The new images show the shear chains much more clearly than before, including the custom-designed crossover plates.
Please click here to contact QuayQuip’s representative in the region.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
QuayQuip QCL Cell Fenders are hard at work protecting the new Muelle de Carbon (coal port) at Isla Riesco in southern Chile.
Part of a $530 million mining development project aimed at bolstering Chile’s independence from energy imports, the $50 million port at Isla Riesco will ship up to six million tonnes of coal every year from three new mines.
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Although our last report about Barrow Island, West Australia, was some time ago, work at the LNG facility has continued apace.
The site’s latest QuayQuip fender installation serves vessels calling at the Materials Offloading Facility (MOF). Due to the wide range of impact conditions – the berth serves a variety of heavy lift ships approaching either stern- or side-on – a slightly unconventional dual QCN Cone fender design was called for.
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
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.
Monday, November 12th, 2012
When QuayQuip’s design engineers were asked to create Cone Fender systems for Berth 7 at Geraldton, West Australia, they were faced with an interesting challenge.
Berth 7 would be fitted with Cavotec mooring systems. The gap between units along the quay front was too cramped for conventional chain and anchor designs. The concrete shell design of the quay also meant that the ‘cone’ of shear forces must be begin far back into the finished structure: something that even the best conventional anchor systems could not achieve. A novel design was called for.
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