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
Special Delivery Service…for Sunseeker Mould
enkins Marine made a special delivery recently, transporting a large Sunseeker mould from Lee-on-Solent, Southampton to Sunseeker Poole. Sunseeker is the world’s leading brand for luxury performance motor yachts and from its manufacturing base in Poole produces around 150 luxury boats every year. 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: Woolverstone Way…
January 2019 saw Jenkins Marine start another maintenance dredging project at Woolverstone Marina, on the River Orwell, near Ipswich. This isn't the first time Jenkins have Dredged here. Previous dredge campaigns saw dredging completed by Jenkins Marine in 2010 and 2013, with ploughing work also completed over the years... Read More