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
Tugboat DMS Condor Pulls More Than Her Weight…
Tugboat DMS Condor has been busy putting her powerful towing abilities to work this month. Her first sizeable load of the month was a large steel caisson with a massive 9m draft, that needed transporting from Rotterdam to Plymouth on behalf of Dutch construction specialists Ravestein... Read More