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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…

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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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Kerry Siam Seaport in Thailand has been extended and equipped with QuayQuip QCN Cone fenders.

The Berth Extension (Phase III) project at Ao Udom, Sriracha in Chonbury Province, has added a 150 metre by 54 metre quay to the north of the existing berth, to serve bulk carriers up to 100,000 DWT and post-Panama container ships.

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In 2011, construction work began on a new coal port at Puerto Neuvo, in the Magdalena region of Colombia. The $60 million project has created a direct loading, multi-user coal port that should be fully operational by early 2013. Puerto Nuevo is expected to handle 30 million tonnes of low sulphur coal, rising to 40 million tonnes within a few years.

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QuayQuip and Marener Engineered Systems recently supplied fenders to the Canadian Coast Guard Berth at the Port of St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

Public Works and Government Services Canada held a competitive tender which was won by Trident Construction. Trident selected Marener and QuayQuip to supply the fender systems. The project consultants were Bridger Design Associates.

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