Keeping Busy – Winter Dredging
Autumn is here and, as the seasons change, we shift into top gear with our dredging fleet to get some serious amounts of mud moved! Our busy dredging program is expected to keep us working hard all winter until Easter 2025 at a variety of sites in locations including; Southampton, Cowes, Chichester Harbour, River Hamble and Poole Harbour. Read More
Rock’in The Castle – Pontoon Piling on Brownsea Island
We have been pleased to work with marina pontoon suppliers, Intermarine. End clients, John Lewis, operate a small passenger ferry to their stunning historic Hotel (a former defensive castle built by Henry VIII) located on Brownsea Island within Poole Harbour. To facilitate passenger ferry operations a new floating landing pontoon was commissioned and Jenkins Marine have been awarded the contract to install the pontoon on the historic site. Read More
Rock’in the Boat
We are currently working with clients and main contractors to provide marine support on a project to place scour protection rock under the historic Rockley Point Rail Viaduct. To maintain the safety and security of this viaduct, railway engineers decided to install scour protection using heavy rock infill placed against the retaining walls either side of the bridge to reduce scour and provide a gravity base. Read More
Navigation markers in this season…
We were commissioned by the Poole Harbour Commission to assist with the replacement of some of the harbour's navigation markers. With over 73 large floating navigation markers and additional sub channel markers it is a very important requirement to ensure these markers are managed and maintained at all times. Read More
Dredging The South
With the start of our Winter 2020 dredging season, we kicked off early in November from our home port of Poole, headed for Southampton, River Hamble and then ventured west up to Chichester Harbour and are imminently on our way to the Isle of Wight to continue on for the next few months. Read More
Dredger purchase is a ‘win-win’ for Poole
Jenkins Marine is pleased to announce the purchase of the grab hopper dredger C.H. Horn from the Poole Harbour Commissioners (PHC). This is a significant investment in the dredging fleet for Jenkins Marine who have now secured a new ten-year contract to perform dredging services and provide marine support vessels for PHC within Poole Harbour and the Port of Poole. Read More
Remembering D-Day
UNION flags were waving for the arrival cruise ship Boudicca in Poole Harbour with hundreds of D-Day veterans on board. The arrival of the MV Boudicca on Tuesday morning was doubly exciting as it was the largest ship ever to have docked at Poole Harbour - assisted by Jenkins Marine's tug Handfast Read More