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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.

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QuayQuip have supplied Element Fenders to a new deep-water berth in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Torry Quay in Aberdeen has been rebuilt as a 300m deep water berth as part of Scotland’s National Renewable Infrastructure Plan. The £19 million redevelopment on the south bank of the River Dee offers better aligned berths and a stronger concrete deck for improved heavy lifting. It will primarily serve oil and gas supply vessels heading for nearby North Sea facilities.

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The Kenyan Navy’s latest vessel, the KNS Jasiri, has docked in her new home port of Mombasa at a berth equipped with QuayQuip fender facings.

At QuayQuip’s advice the jetty’s existing timber facings were replaced by piles installed in front of the quay structure, protected by machined UHMW-PE facings. QuayQuip supplied 41 sets of panels with 6000×300mm contact areas, each 100mm thick.

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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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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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Part of the new ‘Berth Seven’, in the Greenhead Base of Lerwick Harbour in the Shetland Isles, has entered service well ahead of schedule. QuayQuip supplied fendering for the project, a deep-water berth which will initially serve pipe laying vessels operated by Technip on behalf of Maersk North Sea Oil UK Ltd.

The new berth is equipped with 27 QPA500 Arch Fender systems in various lengths. The QPA Arch Fender’s robust UHMW-PE facing lowers friction between the vessel and fender system, and offers the extra protection required by an exposed site.

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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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We often get asked why QuayQuip only uses virgin grade UHMW-PE when other companies propose regenerated and double sintered grades. So we asked external experts to look at the properties and performance of both virgin and recycled grades. The results confirmed why virgin UHMW-PE is the only grade that QuayQuip recommends as safe for marine fenders.

Material grades There are two classes of UHMW-PE for fenders – first quality virgin grade and ‘everything else’. First quality virgin grade UHMW-PE contains no scrap materials, bulk fillers or anything that detracts from ultimate performance.

‘Everything else’ includes: – Recycled, regenerated and double sintered UHMW-PE (different names for the same thing) – Blended UHMW-PE which, as the name implies, is ‘cut’ with scrap and low-grade polyethylene to cut costs at the expense of performance and life expectancy.

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