Newhaven New Jetty
Our extremely versatile ‘multi-category’ vessel Stour is currently on site at West Quay in Newhaven installing a new jetty for marine contractors Herbosch-Kiere. The project involves demolishing the old timber jetty, which had fallen into quite a bad state of repair, before constructing a new modern steel platform with an access walkway, a floating pontoon, and two unloading cranes... Read More
Our Pontoon Fleet is Ready for Work!
We have a range of flat top pontoons available for charter. And they are looking their best and are ready for work after just finishing their intermediate dry docking and class surveys. Our 50m x 14m pontoons are BV classed with a full international loadline for use world wide, they have an impressive deck cargo capacity of 1300t... Read More
Anchor Handling in Antwerp
Our powerful Damen Multicat Wind Lass is currently in Antwerp assisting dredging giants Jan De Nul (JDN) as they dredge a trench across the River Scheldt for a groundbreaking new road tunnel construction project... Read More
Ship Lift Dredging Challenge
Associated British Ports (APB) have asked us to help them resolve an issue with a specialist “ship lift” facility in Southampton. A “Shiplift” system is essentially a large elevator which raises and lowers vessels in and out of the water for dry-docking operations. Many years of silt accumulation mean that the lift is no longer able to lower to its maximum design depth and impacting the functionality of the lift... Read More
Out With the Old…
In a change to our more normal winter schedule we started the new year with a jetty demolition project at Sandbanks for the National Trust. The Jetty had been used since 1996 (roughly 30 years) as a landing stage for passenger and small cargo vessels traveling to and from Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour... Read More
Making Light Work of it.
We’ve been on charter with our versatile ‘multi-category’ vessel STOUR in Dover now for several months for Civil engineering company Dyer & Butler. They have been working with Dover Harbour Authority on a project involving the refurbishment of their historic lighthouses, located on the Harbour breakwaters. Read More
Pipe Laying on the Severn
Our powerful, shallow draft, Damen Multicat Wind Lass and self-propelled spud leg pontoon Doreen Dorward, accompanied by deck pontoon barge JML5014, have been hard at work on the River Severn in Wales where they have been assisting in the installation of a new treated waste water outfall. Read More
Wind Lass and DMS Condor Make Landfall
We are thrilled to announce that our powerful 37t Bollard Pull, Damen multi-cat, utility vessel Wind lass and our twin-screw tugboat DMS Condor, together with our large pontoon fleet, are now under the commercial management of Landfall Marine Contractors BV... Read More
All At Sea in Great Yarmouth
Civil engineering contractor BAM Nuttall / Farrans JV approached Jenkins Marine and asked if we could offer any solutions to the required dredging of high spots in the river channel at Great Yarmouth around the new third river crossing. The ambitious new bridge will ease traffic congestion on the town’s roads and shorten journey times, as well as supporting wider plans to maximise economic growth opportunities in the town and wider borough. Read More