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 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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