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MAY 2005
NEW VESSELS
Launch Of DEMEs Mighty CSD dArtagnan
And A Round-Up From The Yards
PORTS
Major Projects At Immingham And Gijn
Plus A Maintenance Review
ENVIRONMENT
Action Agenda For The US Dredging Team
DREDGING
Adelaide Steals A March on Melbourne,
Trench Cutting In India And New Technology
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CONTENTS
NEW VESSELS
MAY 2005
Launch Of DEMEs Mighty CSD dArtagnan

And A Round-Up From The Yards
FEATURES
PORTS
Form Follows Function
14
Our port & harbour maintenance round-up features ingenious
Major Projects At Immingham And Gijn

Plus A Maintenance Review
ENVIRONMENT
Action Agenda For The US Dredging Team
DREDGING
products and solutions
Adelaide Steals A March on Melbourne,

Trench Cutting In India And New Technology
Cutting Edge
20 FRONT COVER:
Bert Vissers look at the crop of new dredgers begins with a
14
MAY 2005
French-flagged trailer built in Holland
Fairytale Beginning
24
The launch of DEMEs mega cutter

dArtagnan swerved unexpectedly into the
realms of fantasy, writes Stephen Cousins
Where Coal Is King
26
The dawn convoy Jan De

Nuls TSHDs Taccola, Juan
Sebastian de Elcano, Francis
Beaufort and Alexander Von
Humboldt off to work on the
Jebel Ali Palm Island in Dubai.
Bert Vissers just paid them a visit
and well have a report in the
next issue
Nearly 80M is being invested at the
WORLD NEWS
Port of Immingham Tony Slinn was
24
given the grand tour
Go-Ahead for Choctaw
Maasvlakte Delay Official
CEDA Dredging Days
Comment
Is the Port of Gijns 500 infrastructure upgrade justified,
WEDA Bob Hopman
asks Barnaby Eales?
Port Notes
Team Changes
30
A decade after its formation, the US National Dredging Team

has a new action plan, writes Craig Vogt
Will Gijns Ships Come In?
32
What Lies Beneath
32
35
Boskalis new dredging tools designed to provide an alternative

to contaminated sediment disposal
Asias Fortune In The Pipeline
36
The biggest pipe-laying contract in the Asia Pacific region is
People
10
EADA in Mumbai
11
Dredging Projects
12
Orders & Contracts
13
nearing completion...
Head To Head
38 PRODUCT NEWS
Can the Port of Melbourne maintain its dominant position now

Adelaide has dredged its shipping channel, asks Stephen Cousins?
38
Whats New
42
Port Of Call
43
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M AY 2 0 0 5
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DPC
World News
Ferry Facility Opens

A momentous day was how
ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS (ABP)
CEO Bo Lerenius described the
opening of the Port of
Ipswichs new ferry terminal
Construction work on this
second, 6.1M ro-ro berth at the
ports West Bank began last June
following a deal with operator
Ferryways to extend its five-year
agreement by a further 20 years.
The company began operations at
Ipswich in February 2000 and since
then the number of daily sailings
has doubled.
More info at
www.abports.co.uk
Lack Of
Interest?
The meeting was called by the

European Parliaments transport
committee to encourage close
involvement of European ports and
transport operators in MP-II, which
promotes shifting freight from
roads to other modes of transport,
particularly waterway and short sea
routes.
The lack of interest was
surprising given the programmes
2007-2013 740M budget a
five-fold increase for maritime
transport solutions and
demonstrating the significance the
EU attributes to the subject.
More info at:

www.europarl.eu.int
As container volumes at
Singapore continue to surge,
PSAS planning to expand
Pasir Panjang Terminal (PPT)
(l. to r.) ABP East Anglia port manager Rob Smith,

Ferryways MD Jacques Dewilde and ABP group CEO Bo
Lerenius at the opening
Refitted For Russia
Port of Rostock MD DR. ULRICH

BAUERMEISTER was the only
European port director to
attend a recent hearing of the
EUs Marco Polo II (MP-II)
programme...
A novel use has been devised

for FAIRMOUNT MARINES semisubmersible barge Ocean
Seal...
and North America.

As we went to press, the
Fairmount-managed, Chineseowned tug Hua An was about to
tow Ocean Seal to Singapore,
where it will be fitted with special
deck protection and extra
accommodation. The tug and barge
should arrive on site in June,
remaining until the projects
scheduled completion in September.
The Fukada-owned, 24,000dwt

barge is being adapted to work as a
mobile storage facility for stone and
other materials, which will be used
to prepare the seabed for an
offshore concrete drilling platform
at a project being carried out by
VAN OORD near Sakhalin Island. The
aim is to harness oil and gas
reserves for delivery to Asia Pacific
More info at:

www.fairmount.nl +
www.vanoord.com
Were very close to being

granted an additional three berths
by the government, said PSA
South East Asia and Japan CEO
Grace Fu.
Those berths come on top of
five already slated for construction
between 2005 and 2006, making a
total 15 new berths to be added to
PPT over the next five to seven
years and boosting annual capacity
by 50% to 31M TEU.
Singapore handled a record
20.6M TEU in 2004 and volumes
for the first two months of this
year touched 2.03M TEU, up
almost 11% on the same period in
2004.
More info at
www.internationalpsa.com
New RTGs arrive at Pasir

Panjang
Choctaw Get
Go-Ahead
Semi-submersible barge Ocean Sea
Container Charge
In just three months,
container throughput at
Chinese ports exploded by
23.7% to 15.8M TEU
Ulrich Bauermeister
appreciates the need for
intermodal transport
Meeting
Demand
period last year
Dalian handled 575,400 TEU, a

growth of 24.9%
Shanghai dealt with nearly 4M
TEU, a 27.9% increase
Shenzhen managed 24%
growth to 3.5M TEU
Ningbo handled 1,033,200 TEU,
up 26%
Xiamen handled 767,800TEU,
up 15.8%, and
Guangzhou achieved 34% to
889,200 TEU.
The figures for the first quarter

of this year come from Chinas
commerce ministry and list the
countrys eight major ports as
handling a combined 14.9M TEU,
up 24% on the same period last
year.
Qingdao recorded a 22.5%
growth on last year to 1.5M TEU
Tianjin handled slightly over 1M
TEU, up 22.5 % on the same
More info at
http://english.mofcom.gov.cn
The US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

(USACE) has issued a permit
authorizing construction of
the US$250M Choctaw Point
Terminal in Mobile, Alabama
The container terminal
expansion will give Alabama
industries a better system to
transport products and raw
materials and help them compete
in todays global economy, said
Alabamas governor Bob Riley.
The USACE permit also covers an
intermodal rail yard along with
dredging and reclamation work and
provides for storm water
management, including the
relocation of the citys Tennessee
Drain.
More info at
www.usace.army.mil +
www.asdd.com
www.ipspersonnel.nl
M AY 2 0 0 5
World News
Working On It!
Around & About

MAJESTIC VOYAGE
We promised you a full

report on the Diya
Kowullas reflotation at
Galle Harbour and well
have it in the next issue
Hong Kong and since then, it has

played an important role in the
development of the Hong Kong
port.
MT has just launched a US$1Bn
project to upgrade facilities at
container terminals 1, 2 and 5,
potentially boosting total
throughput capacity by up to 25%.
The Port of Houston

Authority (PHA) recently hosted a
reception for HM King Harald V of
Norway aboard the vessel Star
Gazer, which took him on a tour of
the Houston Ship Channel.
At the reception, PHA chairman
Jim Edmonds highlighted the
importance of Norway to American
shipping trade and to Houston in
particular, which is Norways
seventh largest shipping partner,
and congratulated Norway on the
centennial celebration of its
independence.
More info at
www.modernterminals.com
VISUALIZE THIS
In January, the Raad van State

ruled that the Dutch government
had to re-assess plans for the
expansion project because it had
not followed the proper
procedures under the European
Habitat Directive and that
construction of Maasvlakte 2 could
pose a threat to habitats in
northern Dutch Waddenzee.
At the time of the ruling, Ms.
Peijs argued that the procedural
failures would be repairable in a
reasonably short period, but shes
now had to backtrack. Its a move
that could prove damaging
shipping agents claim Chinese lines
will lose interest in setting up
dedicated terminals.
More info at:

www.maasvlakte2.com
tool, which generates high

resolution underwater 3D images
in real time.
A special aspect of the joint
programme is the development of
novel methods to represent seabed
features and marine operations in
3D, said Cardiff University senior
lecturer and project co-ordinator
Dr. Chris Wooldridge.
More info at
www.codaoctopus.com
Cardiff Universitys School of

Earth, Ocean and Planetary Science
has opened a new geophysical
research laboratory made
possible through a 50,000
sponsorship deal with underwater
mapping and imagery specialist
More info at
www.portofhouston.com
DOUBLE FIGURES
Maasvlakte
Delay
Official
Dutch transport minister Karla
Peijs has admitted that
construction of Rotterdams
MAASVLAKTE 2 will be delayed
at least 18 months
DPC
The International Marine

Contractors Association (IMCA)
is celebrating its tenth anniversary,
having notched up nearly 270
members in 30 countries since its
formation in April 1995.
The organizations expanded its
key guidelines, which aim to
reduce injuries and increase safety
in the offshore industry.
PHA chairman Jim

Edmonds (l.) presents a gift
to King Harald
NOW 50M AND RISING
More info at www.imcaint.com

PROMISING FORECAST
After 33 years of operation,

Kwai Chung operator Modern
Terminals (MT) has handled its 50
millionth TEU.
At a quayside ceremony to
celebrate the milestone, guest of
honour Stephen Ip, secretary for
economic development and labour,
commented: Back in 1972, MT
invested and operated the first
purpose-built container terminal in
Nautical digital information

supplier C-MAP has established the
Norwegian subsidiary C-MAP
Marine Forecast, to help enhance
its weather services.
By combining C-MAP
technology with the latest
meteorological expertise, the unit
aims to develop innovative tools for
the presentation and utilization of
meteorological data.
More info at www.c-map.no

CodaOctopus.
Guests were able to experience
the labs 3D visualization suite,
which features underwater images
captured by the new Coda
Echoscope underwater inspection
Modern Terminals
employees celebrate the
landmark
Project co-ordinator Chris

Wooldridge (l.) and
CodaOctopus commercial
manager Paul Baxter at the
launch
FENDER DEAL
Marine services provider James
Fisher has paid 12M in cash for
the privately-owned companies
Fender Care Marine Solutions
and Fender Care Marine
Services,who supply large-scale
pneumatic fenders to the shipping,
offshore, port, construction and
defence industries.
More info at www.jamesfisher.co.uk +

www.fendercare.com
SMART MOVE
Kalmar has established Kalmar
Intelligence & Automation to
develop on-board smart features
for container handling equipment,
integrated systems and remote
maintenance products.
More info at
www.kalmarind.com
M AY 2 0 0 5
DPC
World News
Russian Port
Wrangle
Three Days
In Rotterdam
Rotterdams
home to some
wonderful
architecture
This years CEDA DREDGING

DAYS promises to both
educate and entertain, with
a packed programme of
technical papers, an
exhibition, partners
programme and social events
Themed Dredging: The
Extremes, the congress will be
held in conjunction with Europort
Maritime 2005 from November 24 in Rotterdams Ahoy exhibition
centre.
Dredging projects frequently
have to meet extreme
requirements, or be carried in
extreme physical or regulatory
environments. As society presents
new challenges to the industry, its
continually pushed to make
advances in accuracy,
environmental safety, cost
effectiveness and strength.
That often results in novel
approaches, innovation,
progressive improvement and the
development of specialized
dredging equipment and
techniques. And thats Dredging
Days focus, with the aim of
promoting discussion and the
exchange of ideas, experience and
technology.
IN DETAIL
Papers The conference has

been extended to two and a half
days due to the quality of
response to the call for papers
and includes seven sessions: (i).
Dredging In Complex Regulatory
Environments; (ii). Jetting; (iii).
Case Studies; (iv). Environment;
(v). Advances In Science &
Technology Part 1 and (vi). Part 2;
(vii). Technical Progress.
Technical Visit On
Wednesday afternoon, November
2, delegates can view the Slufter,
the worlds largest confined
A billion-dollar plan to
construct a new port between
the Azov and Black Seas has
been halted
disposal facility for dredged

material, located in the Port of
Rotterdams Maasvlakte industrial
area. The site also has facilities for
sand extraction and dredged
material ripening for beneficial
use.
Exhibition Held in the
technical session room foyer and
open throughout the conference.
Partners Programme
Includes a visit to the
Smaakcollege, where participants
will receive a master class in
preparing high tea and get to
sample it too!
The Krasnodar regional

government claims chief project
contractor TogliattiAzot failed to
clear wartime mines and other
explosives from the seabed and

meet other project safety
requirements at the Port of Taman
and is demanding their removal
before allowing work to resume.
Once operational and
TogliattiAzot claims to have already
spent US$300M on dredging and
other works Taman will have a
30M-tonne throughput capacity,
rivalling Russias largest southern
port Novorossiysk.
FINALLY...
If all this has served to whet
your appetite, book your place
online now at
www.dredging.org.
The fee (including VAT which
can be reclaimed from the Dutch
tax authorities using forms
available at the registration desk)
is 335 for CEDA, EADA and
WEDA members, 450 for nonmembers, 50 for undergraduate
students and speakers, while PhD
students get a 50% discount. It
includes all conference sessions,
free entrance to Europort
Maritime 2005, a full set of
conference documents, morning
coffee, lunch, afternoon tea and
entrance to the CEDA Netherlands
reception (to be held on
November 3). Wednesdays
technical visit, however, will cost
you an extra 50.
Blocks of rooms have been
reserved for delegates and guests
at several hotels in the city centre
that are close to metro stations
and Ahoy contact Hotel Service
Rotterdam: tel: +31 (0)10-4147314; fax: +31 (0)10-214-0108;
email: hsr@convention.nl; web:
www.bookings.nl.
Port of Rotterdam CEO Hans Smits looks on as the joint

venture partners, Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov and FTS /
Hofftrans director Bernard Muller, shake on the deal
Slick Manoeuvre
The Port of Rotterdam has opened the SERVICE TERMINAL
ROTTERDAM (STR) tank storage facility, boosting its presence in
the oil and oil products industry
Jointly owned by Lukoil and FTS / Hofftrans the new facility increases
the number of heavy fuel oil suppliers located at Europes main oil hub
and strengthens Rotterdams strategic position against its Russian rivals.
The port and operator will invest a combined 21M through to 2007
to improve the terminals bunkering and ship-to-ship transfer facilities,
while tank storage capacity will be increased from the current 40,000m3
to 120,000m3.
More info at www.serviceterminal.com
Safety First
Launching the course (l. to r.) ABP safety manager Paul

Fewtrell, Hull & Goole port director Doug Morrison and ABP
group safety manager Steve Giblin
ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS has

introduced a new course at the
Port of Hull
Wild Dragon, an
innovative draghead
designed to extract fine,
hard-packed aquatic soils
Endorsed by the Institution of

Occupational Safety and Health,
Cargo Handling in Ports aims to alert
workers to the day-to-day dangers

encountered when handling cargo
and allow them to carry out their
duties with minimal risk.
More info at:

www.abports.com
www.ipspersonnel.nl
M AY 2 0 0 5
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DPC
Editors Comment
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Tony Slinn Tel: +44-(0)1737-379159
Email: tony.slinn@lrfairplay.com
Clean Air
Dredging contractors have had years to

come to terms with it, but on May 19th
Annex VI of MARPOL 73/78 becomes
mandatory for vessels over 400gt
Annex VI sets limits on sulphur oxide (SOx)
and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from ship
exhausts and prohibits deliberate emissions of
ozone depleting substances.
According to an EU statement, this will
equate to at least 2,000 fewer life years lost
through long term exposure, 750 fewer deaths
from short term exposure and 300 fewer
hospital admissions for respiratory illness. And
while in comparison to the rest of the worlds
merchant fleet, dredgers contribution to those
figures is vanishingly small, contractors would
probably agree that its no bad thing.
M AY 2 0 0 5
Annex VI is at least a level

playing field: it sets a global cap
of 4.5% m/m on the sulphur
content of fuel oil and calls on
the IMO to monitor fuels
worldwide average sulphur
content. It also establishes
special SOx Emission Control
Areas with more stringent
controls including the Baltic
Sea and North Sea. Sulphur
contents cut to 1.5% m/m in
such areas, or alternatively ships
must fit an exhaust gas cleaning
system or use other
technological methods to limit
SOx emissions.
Not surprisingly, the latter have
been flocking to market recently.
Interestingly, especially as
theres been controversy
elsewhere over the amount of
administration and paperwork
involved in compliance, DPCs
not received one peep of protest
or concern from contractors.
This may well be that given the
huge number of environmental
restraints the industrys already
burdened with, Annex VI is
viewed as a minor problem. But I
think its because dredging
people are simply among the most responsible
in the maritime world.
This months photo? Where else but the
launch of dArtagnan (see page 24) on April
22nd? Apologies that DPCs a little late as a
result, but we simply couldnt publish this
months issue without reporting on the great
event.
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World News
Obituary
Courses &
Seminars
ROBERT JOSEPH HOPMAN Bob,

as he was known to his
friends and one of WEDAs
most distinguished members
died in April following a
long battle with cancer
DREDGING
The Training Institute for
Dredging is running several
courses throughout the year at
its offices in Kinderdijk, Holland.
Throughout his 30-year US

Army Corps of Engineers career
he retired as Philadelphia chief of
operations in 1997, becoming a
consultant for various firms Bob
was recognized for outstanding
achievements in engineering and
managerial work. His expertise in
dredging and oil spill clean up
brought him world wide
adventure, projects including the
Exxon Valdez spill and the clean
More info at
www.dredgetraining.com
CORROSION
The Accelerated Low Water
Corrosion Conference and
Exhibition will be held in
Liverpool, UK, June 21-22.
More info at
www.millenniumconferences
.com
FLOOD MANAGEMENT
The 40th Defra Flood and
Coastal Management
Conference 2005 takes place at
the University of York, UK, July 57.
Robert Hopman
DPC
up following the first Gulf war.

Bob received many accolades,
including the first WEDA Lifetime
Achievement Award, the
Department of the US Armys
Civilian Award, the coveted
Bronze Order of the de Fleury
Medal and several WODCON best
paper and innovation
recognitions.
Hes survived by wife of 42
years, Marlene, son Mark,
daughter Teresa and five
grandchildren and will be
especially missed at this years
WEDA and Texas A&M Annual
Dredging Congress, being held
at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New
Orleans French Quarter from June
18-23.
HOLYHEAD TOWING
COMPANY LIMITED
More info at
www.defra.gov.uk/environ/
fcd/default.htm
REMEDIATION
The 2nd International
Seminar on Remediation and
Handling of Contaminated
Sediments will be held at the
Institute for Water Education,
Delft, Holland, August 29 to
September 1.
tough dependable tugs

workboats and barges
for charter, marine civils
and dredging support
More info at
www.unesco-ihe.org
PORT DEVELOPMENT
The International
Conference on Port-Maritime
Development and Innovation,
organized by the Singapore Port
Authority and the Port of
Rotterdam, takes place in
Rotterdams World Trade Centre,
Holland, September 5-7.
More info at
www.portofrotterdam.com
HEAVY LIFT
The Marine Heavy
Transport & Lift Conference, is
at the Royal Institution of Naval
Architects London HQ,
September 20-21.
More info via email:

conference@rina.org.uk
POSITIONING
Trimble Dimensions 2005
User Conference,
will be held at The Mirage Hotel,
Las Vegas, October 23-26.
More info at
www.trimbleevents.com
MARINE ENGINEERING
The 13th International
Marine Contractors
Association Annual Seminar,
takes place in Dubai, November
29-30.
More info at
www.imca-int.com
HOLYHEAD TOWING COMPANY LIMITED

NEWRY BEACH YARD HOLYHEAD ANGLESEY LL65 1YB
For vessel specifications and availability:
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M AY 2 0 0 5
DPC
World News
Port Notes
TAKING CHARGE
Hyundai Heavy Industries has
signed an MOU with Koreas Ulsan
Regional Maritime Affairs and
Fisheries Office to take over two
inefficient ports and assume
responsibility for constructing a
third the delayed Port of
Yeompo, which will be handed
over to Ulsan city.
More info at
http://ulsan.momaf.go.kr
LNG FRONTRUNNER
British Columbias Port of
Prince Rupert and Calgary-based
WestPac Terminals have agreed to
construct a C$200M LNG
terminal, one of the first on North
Mony
Americas West Coast.

Westpac will build and operate
the terminal, scheduled to come
online by 2009, which includes a
180,000m3 storage facility and
infrastructure capable of handing
large LNG vessels.
imports from the Toyota plant at

Zarate, Argentina.
More info at
www.portoalegre.rs.gov.br
More info at
www.rupertport.com
MOTORING ON
Toyota do Brasil has opened a
US$2.1M, 50,000m2 distribution
centre at the Porto of Alegre
which it hopes will capture 10%
of the Brazilian car market by
2010.
The new facility can handle
22,000 cars a year and will receive
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SALES RESONCOUK
Sunset in Porto Alegre
PSAs bought 4.13M shares in

Pusan Newport from Kumho
Industrial for KRW33Bn.
The 6.96% share, which still
needed approval from the Ministry
of Maritime
Affairs and
Fisheries as we
went to press,
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total 66% stake
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in the project.
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secure a foothold in Hong Kong,
completing the purchase of NWS
Holdings port assets. The deal
makes PSA a partner with Dubai
Ports International in Hong Kong
terminals CT3 and CT8.
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The Canadian government has

announced C$23.6M in funding
to help ports and marine
terminals meet ISPS standards
and transport minister Jean
Lapierre has promised another
C$52M for later this year.
The Port of Vancouver received
C$8M, Montreal over C$3M,
Quebec C$879,309, the St.
Lawrence Seaway C$612,000
and Toronto $607,000 64 other
ports and terminals shared the
remainder.
More info at
www.canada.gc.ca
EXPANSION PLANS
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More info at
www.internationalpsa.com
ABP STAYS STRONG
Associated British Ports full
year results for 2004 include:
Ports and transport turnover up
5% to 365.4M
Underlying UK ports and
transport operating profit up 3%
to 142.2M, and
Pre-tax profit at 83M.
ABP plans to invest 400M to
develop its core UK ports business
over the next 10 years including
three new Humber terminals by
2006/2007 (see page 26).
More info at
www.abports.co.uk
BILLION FOR BOSKALIS
Boskalis full year 2004 results
include:
30.2M net profit
1Bn turnover, matching 2003
Over 1Bn of new orders,
compared to 897M in 2003.
Boskalis expects positive
developments in 2005, particularly
in markets outside Europe, such as
Malaysia and Singapore, where
land reclamation projects look set
to resume.
More info at
www.boskalis.com
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IMarEST HEAD
PORT PROMOTION
Hatsu Marine chairman Maurice

Storey has been appointed
president of the
Institute of Marine
Engineering,
Science and
Technology,
replacing Dr. Bill
Loth, and will fill
the role for one year.
Tacoma has appointed Bob

Emerson as senior director of real
estate and industrial development.
Bob has worked at the port for
19 years, most recently as director
of real estate and industrial
development, a position he has
held since 1999.
THREE AT
WRTSIL
Wrtsils ship
power unit has three
Magnus new chiefs:
Memois
Magnus Miemois
has been appointed
vice president of 4stroke engines
John Nyfors
becomes a vice
John
president and head
Nyfors
of project execution
for 4-stroke engines,
and
Timo Koponen is
vice president of
Timo
finance and business
Koponen control.
PROJECT
LEADER
International
Container
Terminal Services
has appointed
Paul Lo as senior
vice president of
its Greater China
port projects unit, tasked with
spearheading business in the
region.
AT VANCOUVER
...The port authority (VPA) has
appointed George
Adams as its new
chairman, replacing
David Stowe who
stepped down after
serving two threeyear terms. Adams
joined VPAs board
in 1999, served two terms to 2003
and was re-appointed to the
board in 2004.
Additionally, John Willcox
becomes VPAs new
vice chairman he
joined the board in
2003 after retiring
as Neptune
Terminals CEO in
2001.
EXPERIENCE COUNTS
ROTTERDAMS CCO
Ger van Tongeren has become
the Port of Rotterdams new chief
commercial officer hes a former
DCMR Environmental Protection
Agency director.
Sean Kelly is Modern

Terminals new CEO.
Prior to joining the company,
UP & UP
Former Hull and Goole port
director before
his recent
promotion at
Southampton,
Doug Morrison
has now been
elevated to
Associated British
Ports board.
Sean held several positions at

American President Lines and
served on a number of
international transportation
company boards.
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variety of coastal and inland water dependent organisations
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Books
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Host
PORT OF LONDON
HANDBOOK
The enchanting city of

Mumbai in India is the
location for the EASTERN DREDGING ASSOCIATIONS one-day
seminar and exhibition
One of the
top three ports
in the UK,
London handles
over 50M
tonnes of cargo
per year.
This new, fullcolour, 128-page
Capital
handbook
reading
enables people in
the shipping, freight, logistics,
transport, import / export and
related fields to access key
information on its terminals and
facilities.
Held in association with INMEX India 2005 and themed New

Developments in Dredging Equipment and Planning, the seminar
takes place on October 7 and aims to provide a forum for the discussion
of new trends and technologies in the dredging industry.
More info from EADA secretary general Capt. David Padman

via email: david@pka.gov.my
Inland Waterways Matter!

Local authorities in the Lorraine and Rhone Alps regions of
France plan to re-launch a project to establish a Rhone-Rhine
waterway link
Get your free copy by

emailing:
martin.garside@pola.co.uk
ABP PORTS HANDBOOK
The announcement came eight years after a similar project was

dropped by Lionel Jospins government, but Rhone Alps region
transport chief Bernard Soulage is confident of success.
While the previous project provided for a waterway link via the
Doubs, we suggest a new link via the Moselle which will be more
economical and have less environmental impact, he said.
Such a link could reduce truck traffic volumes through the Rhone
Valley corridor by transferring cargo to the Rhone waterway, but this
will only be feasible if this waterway has an outlet in Northern
Europe, added Soulage. The waterway would be able to handle large
container barges and permit transit all the way from Marseilles to
Rotterdam.
The 2005 edition provides a

definitive guide to all Associated
British Ports businesses and
covers every
aspect of its
ports,
facilities,
services and
trade from
core
One for the
activities to
boardroom
valuebookshelf
More info at www.vnf.fr
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added dredging and marine

research divisions.
Last year, ABPs ports handled
a total of nearly 130M tonnes of
cargo, about a quarter of the UKs
total seaborne trade. Ports
Handbook 2005 will explain how
we made this possible, said CEO
Bo Lerenius.
Get your copy from Tristan

Garrick at:
tgarrick@abports.co.uk
PORT WASTE MANAGEMENT
This practical guide provides
port authorities, ship owners,
masters and
service
industries
with vital
guidance on
all the
primary and
secondary
legislation on
port waste
management,
Clean up
plus how to
the quays!
develop and
manage a
flexible, integrated system that
maintains full legislative
compliance.
More info at
www.foreshorebooks.com
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MAY
NOVEMBER
21-27: The 24th International

Association Of Ports & Harbors
Congress, themed Challenges
and Opportunities Facing the
Worlds Ports. It also celebrates
the IAPHs 50th anniversary and is
at the Shanghai International
Convention Centre, China. More
info at www.iaphworldports.org
2-4: CEDA Dredging Days:

Dredging The Extremes a
conference and exhibition this
year, in conjunction with
Europort Maritime at Ahoy,
Rotterdam, Holland. More info at
www.dredging.org
24-25: The 3rd Thai Ports and
Shipping Conference Bangkok,
Thailand. More info at
www.transportevents.com
JUNE
14-16: Sea Work at Canary
Islands Fruit Terminal, Port of
Southampton, UK. More info at
www.seawork.com
14-16: TOC Europe at Antwerp
Expo, Belgium.
More info at www.toc-events.com
22-23: Air & Port Security Expo
Europe at Brussels Exhibition
Centre, Belgium. More info at
www.aps-expo.com
29-30: Indian Ocean Ports,
Logistics and Shipping
Exhibition & Conference 2005
at the Hilton, Mauritius.
More info at
SEPTEMBER
21-22: The 3rd Asean Ports and
Shipping Exhibition &
Conference JW Marriott
Surabaya Hotel, Indonesia.
More info at
26-29: The 8th Russian
Shipping, Ports & Offshore
Energy Exhibition St.
Petersburg, Russia. More info at
www.setcorp.ru/exb
27-29: International
Construction and Utility
Equipment Exposition at the
Fair & Exposition Centre, Louisville,
Kentucky, USA.
More info at www.icuee.com
OCTOBER
5-8: INMEX India Mumbai,
India, includes the EADA one-day
dredging seminar. More info at
www.inmexindia.com
Baltic Swap
After its acquisition of a majority stake in the Port of Gdynias
Wonly Obszar Gospodarczy last year, HUTCHISON PORT HOLDINGS
has changed the facilitys name to Gdynia Container Terminal
GCT will become a major container port in the Baltic region as we
embark on a series of investment programmes to convert it into a modern
facility, said HPH group MD John Meredith. And the first phase of the
development is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter this year.
More info at www.hph.com.hk
DREDGING PROJECTS
2006 EVENTS
FEBRUARY
2-3: The 4th Intermodal Africa
Namibia, South Africa.
More info at
28-March 2: China Maritime
in Hong Kong.
More info at www.baird.com.au
Artists impression of Vuosaari Harbour
FINLAND FIRST
Terramare has been selected to
dredge Helsinkis new Vuosaari
Harbour.
The campaign sets a precedent
in Finland as it involves cleaning up
a 75ha site contaminated with
tributyl tin and moving it to
Niinilahti where it will be stabilised
in harbour structures. Roughly
500,000m3 of contaminated soil
will be moved, the environmental
impact of which will be minimised
by using retaining structures, while
special equipment will scrape off
the contaminated soil in layers.
MARCH
6-10: World Maritime
Technology Conference Queen
Elizabeth II Conference Centre,
London, UK. More info at
www.wmtc2006.com
14-16: World of Asphalt
Trade Show Orlando, Florida,
USA. More info at
www.worldofasphalt.com
MAY
22-26: The 16th IALA
Conference themed Aids to
Navigation in the Digital World
and in Shanghai, China.
More info at www.iala-aism.org
More info at
www.vuosaarensatama.fi
INDIA GO-AHEAD
Indias shipping ministry has
cleared the Jawaharlal Nehru
Port Trust (JNPT) dredging project
and granted INR5.7Bn of the total
INR6.4Bn costs.
The work will deepen and widen
the main harbour channel and
approach channel and forms part
DECEMBER
6-9: Maritima 2006 for
maritime, inland waterway and
port professionals, it takes place at
Porte de Versailles, Paris, France.
More info at
www.salonmaritima.com
of JNPTs integrated development

plan which also includes
upgrading container handling
equipment, expanding and building
new container terminals, improving
internal circulation systems and
back-up facilities and enhancing
road and rail connectivity to the
hinterland.
More info at www.jnport.com

PORT IMPROVEMENTS
Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle
has allocated a record US$4.4Bn
transportation budget, which will
see the following port
improvements:
US$7.2M to dredge and rebuild
the Port of Sturgeon Bays Sawyer
Dock wall, plus construction of a
new boat launch
US$2.75M to reconstruct a dock
wall at the Georgia-Pacific slip in
the Port of Green Bay
US$1.1M for dredging work in
the Port of Oconto.
More info at
www.wisgov.state.wi.us
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Orders & Contracts

RADICAL TUG
Novatug has won an order
from Multraship for a 30m
Carrousel tug for delivery in 2006.
The vessel features a radically
different design concept: by
attaching the towing wire to a ring
that rotates freely around the
superstructure, cornering and
braking are greatly increased,
Novatug claim.
Mackenzie Tug Service of
introduced in the 1960s and

powered by Volvo Penta TAMD
74A marine diesel engines, giving
a 24-knot top speed.
More info at www.vtplc.com
More info at
www.novatug.nl
Serrapio has a top speed
of 24 knots
LIFTING CAPACITY
Carrousel tug in action
TRIPLE DELIVERY
VT Halmatic has delivered
Nelson 40 pilot boats Mandarache,
Serrapio and Progreso to Spains
Cartagena, Gijn and Sagunto
pilotage authorities respectively.
Each vessel is an optimised
version of the pilot boat originally
International Container Terminal

Services Baltic Container Terminal
(BCT) in Gydnia, Poland, has taken
delivery of a Kone Cranes quayside
container gantry crane, the first of
three designed to help boost the
terminals annual capacity.
The new Panamax crane has a
38.5m outreach and will shortly be
joined by two post-Panamax or
super post-Panamax cranes also
intended to replace existing units.
The upgrades are the result of
extensive investments in new yard
equipment by BCT and form part
BCTs new gantry crane

arrives
of the companys 15-year,
US$100M investment programme
designed to raise annual
throughput to 1M TEU.
Esperance, Western Australia, also

ordered an ASD Tug 2411with
firefighting equipment, for delivery
mid-2006
INCO Goro of New Caledonia
has ordered a ASD Tug 2509 and
Mini Cat 803 line handling boat,
to be built in Gorinchem, while a
third vessel, a Stan Tug 1605, will
be built in China
And a large Australian coal
terminal has also signed a letter
of intent to purchase a ASD Tug
3111 with an option for a second.
The orders have prompted
Damen to set up a parts and
services centre in the country.
More info at: www.damenshipyards.com
TUGS DOWN UNDER

Damen Shipyards has won tug
orders in Australia:
Adsteam Marines ordered an
ASD Tug 2411 with a bollard pull
of 70 tons, for delivery next
January, which will be fitted with a
FiFi 1 firefighting installation and a
pre-wetting system
Pilbara Neptune is similar

in design to the ASD Tug
3111scheduled for the coal
terminal
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DPC
Port & Harbour Maintenance
Form Follows Function

This round-up includes several innovative products and solutions developed
to overcome difficult environmental conditions
n Rotterdam a new construction

materials being tested thats designed
to improve the integrity of concrete
blocks in a breakwaters protective wall.
Under constant exposure to extreme
wave forces, most breakwaters require
frequent maintenance and repair and the
two that mark access to the IJmuiden sea
lock complex and the North Sea Canal are
no exception.
Last October a weak section in the
Concrete compound is poured into

the blocks wooden formwork
Finished block ready for placement
southern breakwater was spotted, giving

the Dutch Directorate of Transport and
Water Managements (Rijkswaterstaat)
Innovatie Test Centrum (ITC) a chance to
use the new carbon concrete blocks. Its
ITCs task to test innovative products and
materials in real projects in close cooperation with manufacturers.
Six carbon concrete blocks were used,
the new material being similar to normal
concrete in that its made with aggregates,
but with the bituminous product C-Fix
used as a binder instead of cement. C-Fix
(carbon fixation) was developed over
three years by Shell in response to the
Kyoto Protocol and is being marketed by
subsidiary C-Fix. It uses oil refineries
residue thats traditionally used as heavy
fuel for large ships and power plants, but
with the drawback of high carbon dioxide
(CO2) emissions. Fixing CO2 to produce
the C-Fix binder is thus extremely
beneficial to the environment: for every
ton of C-Fix, 2.5tons of CO2 is fixed
IJmuidens six blocks represent a total
reduction of 33tons of CO2.
IJmuidens extreme wave conditions
meant the blocks also had to have a very
high density, so Minelcos special heavy
iron oxide aggregate, magnetite
magnedence, was used instead of the
usual sand and gravel, resulting in a
3.9kg/m3 block density.
This test project is the first time C-Fix
has been employed as a heavy duty port
construction element and the 45-ton
blocks are the largest and heaviest
elements built with C-Fix so far. Theyll be
monitored by Rijkswaterstaat, in close cooperation with C-Fix and Minelco, to see
how they behave under the influence of
the sea. Early indications are positive the
blocks appear extremely resistant to salt
and sea water corrosion.
New blocks take a battering in stormy weather

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Falsework suspended above Tenbys

erratic tides
SPECIAL SUPPORT
The destructive force of the sea also had
a major bearing on the design of an
ingenious falsework solution developed by
RMD Kwikform (RMDK) to support a
concrete deck slab for the Royal National
Lifeboat Institutions (RNLI) new
boathouse station being built by Dean and
Dyball at Tenby on Wales Pembrokeshire
coast.
The 25.6m-long x 21.7m-wide
boathouse slab is cruciform in plan and
incorporates a 19.5m-long trough, into
which the new lifeboat will be parked,
plus cantilevered wings on both sides
and at the rear. The slab is supported by
19 piles and comprises over 450m3 of
concrete, placed in six separate pours and
weighing a total of over 1,200 tonnes.
Using the conventional method of
supporting the slab from below would
have subjected the falsework to Tenbys
dangerous tidal conditions, possibly
twisting and mangling any temporary
works. Instead, it was decided to suspend
the falsework above the seas wildly
fluctuating high tide mark from a network
of 813mm diameter piles. Pile caps were
used to support pairs of H33 girders,
which in turn supported a gridwork of
universal beams and RMDK Super Slim
Soldiers, from which suspended ties were
hung to support the soffit. The H33
girders were supported by tapered steel
legs attached to steel stools welded to the
inside of the circular steel piles.
While the H33 girders provided support
for the concrete pours, to prevent them
from hampering soffit erection and steel
fixing, huge friction collars were placed
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combined wall was considered the most

appropriate construction method.
Client Public Works and Government
Services, Canada and consulting engineers
Eastern Designers evaluated various
construction methods before choosing
sheet piling, which was considered the
most economical and the most suitable for
the shallow bedrock conditions and the
wharfs expected lifespan.
The combi-walls HZ king piles and AZ
sheet piles were driven 1.5m in front of
the existing structure and the space
between the new and existing wharf faces
was backfilled. The concrete deck of the
interior portion of the quay was removed,
the grade raised and a new concrete and
asphalt wharf deck created. The shoreline
area between the north and south wharf
was also closed up with a sheet pile
structure.
During a typical ten-hour shift the
contractor was able to drive roughly five
HZ king piles and five AZ sheet piles,
driving taking seven weeks in total.
Design Matters
Several FENTEK fender systems have
recently been type-approved under a
strict PIANC protocol
New piles in place
FENDER THOUGHTS
Most harbour facilities are built for
life spans up to about 100 years, but
technical and market development is so
rapid that fender systems are designed for
life cycles of 20 to 30 years.
That was Fentek marketing director
Mike Harrisons comment as he opened
the firms Middle East regional office in
Dubai in late 2003 as the area began to
boom. With older ports and harbours
being expanded and spruced up, oil prices
high and economies stable, the strong
consumer and industrial demand saw
Mikes new office expanding rapidly
sales were quickly up several times the
normal figure for the region.
Fentek had historically served its
Middle East customers from Europe,
Mike continued, but opening the Dubai
continued on p19
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Brought into force in April 2002, the

protocol covers fender design practices and
aims to ensure that published performance
figures from all type-approved sources are
measured using the same methods and from
the same datum.
It addresses many areas critical to fender
performance, including a definition of the rated
performance data (RPD, which defines the
minimum requirements for manufacturers
published performance figures) and the test
apparatus and performance testing procedures
to be used.
Fenteks Singapore factory, Trelleborg
Hercules, began testing the Fentek Super
Cone, Cell Fender, Unit Element, and Arch
Fender systems in late 2002 and Germanischer
Lloyd was appointed to witness and verify the
results.
At the end of October 2004, Fenteks entire
range of moulded fenders achieved type
approval status, making it the first
manufacturer worldwide to achieve this
milestone.
More info at www.fentek.net +

www.pianc-aipcn.org
Fenders undergoing tests required

for PIANC type approval in a specially
designed, computer-controlled test rig
Formwork being installed
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Fenders installed on liquid berths at

Sohar
continued from p16
office proved to be the key. We became

the first international fender manufacturer
to provide local technical and commercial
support to end users, consultants and
contractors.
That enabled fast response before,
during and after a contract was awarded
with the result Fentek now boast a
number of high profile projects, including:
Egypt 1,200m of super post-Panamax
container quay for SCCT (a joint venture
between Maersk and the Egyptian
government), using 60 sets of UE1000
fender systems, plus intermediate Arch
fenders.
Saudi Arabia upgrade of Jeddah main
oil berths 1 and 2 for Saudi Aramco; the
berth 54 oil terminal in Jubail and 40 sets
of creamy white 1.2m diameter
cylindrical fenders for Jeddahs navy base.
Kuwait five new oil and liquids berths
for Kuwait National Petroleum Company,
comprising 16 Super Cone systems up to
SCN1600 in size.
Oman Khasab Port multi-user
terminal, ro-ro berth and fisheries quay,
using over 80 Super Cone and Arch
fenders. Sohar Port phase 1 & 2 with over
150 sets of UE1000 fenders installed on
the bulk and multi-user berths, plus
SCN1400 and SCN700 fenders for the
liquids berths.
Qatar four SCN1600 systems for the
QGPC multi-products terminal; 82
SCN1000s for Mesaieeds new crushed
stone import berth and 60 SCK800 cell
fenders for Halul Island, a remote site
100km offshore.
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Jebel Ali Berth 21 upgraded for

Panamax container vessels
New berths at Fujiarah
United Arab Emirates contracts

included: (i). over 1,000 fenders in Jebel
Ali Port, mostly cylindrical, pneumatic,
Super Cone and unit elements; (ii). Jebel
Alis Quay 4, serving post-Panamax
vessels, is now protected by 37 UE1000
fenders, while (iii). Berths 21 to 25 have
been upgraded for use by Panamax
container vessels with over 140 UE750
systems; (iv). Fujairah Ports oil berth was
fitted with 42 sets of SCN1000 fenders;
(v). Sharjah Ports Authority have
upgraded their Khor Fakkan facilities with
five twin SCN1000 cell fender systems on
the main container quay, and (vi). at the
entrance to the Jumeirah Palm Island
development, Logo Island has been built
for Sheikh Mohammed and features a
160m berth for his new private megayacht, Platinum. The quays fitted with 19
Seaguard super low pressure foam fenders
6ft x 16ft in pure white.
With more of the same forecast in
coming years, the Middle East remains the
ideal location to continue serving regional
customers, Mike concluded.
encased in a 500ft depth-rated, corrosionresistant underwater housing and a 150ft

cable. It has two different lighting options:
an internal ring light made of high
intensity LEDs or external 100 watt
lights.
Floridas Gulf Atlantic Pump and
Dredge recently attached an MC-1 to the
front of its dredger to survey the bottom
before and after dredging operations,
while sediment sampling equipment maker
P&M Marine Service attached an MC-1
to one of its devices The camera
produces a sharp, clear video picture of
each bottom sample we take, said owner
Steve Moreau.
More info at www.c-fix.com +
www.rmdkwikform.com +
www.drilcorp.com + www.arcelor.com +
www.fentek.net + www.jwfishers.com
Diver preparing to
enter the water with
the MC-1 mini
camera
FINALLY...
JW Fishers has released a European
PAL version of its MC-1 compact
underwater camera, which can be used for
port, hull and dredging inspections.
The device transmits live video through
an umbilical cable to a topside monitor
for viewing and recording. The camera
housing can be easily mounted on a
divers helmet, put into a pipe for internal
inspections, or attached to a pole handle
to view the underside of
vessels and seawalls,
says the firm.
The basic MC-1
system incorporates
a monochrome
camera
Mini
camera
with
optional
100 watt
lights
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New Dredgers
The hull was optimised
for speed
A dramatic
launch!
Cutting Edge
The launch of DEMEs huge cutter dArtagnan see page 24
might be the biggest such event this year, but BERT VISSERS not
neglected the crop of smaller vessels
t the
Barkmeijer
shipyard in
Stroobos, Holland,
a special trailing
suction hopper
dredger (TSHD)
was launched on
April 7 for La Rochelle-based Dragages
Transports et Travaux Maritime (DTM).
Called Andr L after Andr Libaud, the
founder of DTMs parent firm Groupe
Libaud, she was christened by his
daughter Mrs. Robert Libaud and shes
special because of her relatively high laden
speed of 13 knots.
Its a vital design factor enabling her to
synchronise dredging cycles with the tides
tidal ranges are very large off the
Atlantic coast of France where shell be
dredging sand and missing a port entry at
high tide could mean several hours of lost
working time.
Her hull plays an important part in
obtaining the high speed and model tests
were carried out in the Wageningen basins
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of the Maritime Research Institute

Netherlands (MARIN) to optimize the
shape.
EQUIPMENT
Andr Ls equipped with a Wrtsil
6L32 main diesel engine driving a single
CPP propeller via a Wrtsil gearbox
thats equipped with a power tack in
(PTI) facility. Driven by an 875kW electric
motor and coupled to the gearbox via a
hydraulic clutch, the PTI serves as a
redundant means for propulsion: in an
emergency, it will bring the ship to a safe
port at low speed. Wrtsil have also
supplied a 6L20 diesel engine as an
auxiliary generator that can be connected
to the PTI.
The TSHDs dredging installation was
supplied by Nijkerk-based Damen
Dredging Equipment and consists of a
single 600mm suction pipe with an
integrated, electrically-driven submersible
pump, giving a maximum dredging depth
of 40m.
She can unload either by dumping
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through four bottom doors or via an

electrically-driven shore discharge pump
that can empty the hopper through four
suction openings in the bottom door
recesses. And the versatile shore discharge
facility can pump sand via:
A bow coupling
Shore discharge line on portside, and
A shore discharge arrangement above
the hopper.
As I write, Andr Ls been towed to
Lemmer where shell be fitted out trials
and delivery are expected to take place
this July.
More info at www.barkmeijer.com
Tech Specs
ANDR LS main features are...
Hopper Capacity 2,500m3

Length Overall 84.99m
Length Between Perpendiculars 80.3m
Breadth Moulded 15.2m.
Draught at Dredging Mark 6.5m
Speed Laden 13 knots
New Dredgers
DPC
At work in the swell...
...and pumping spoil through her

floating pipeline
Artists impression, showing the

Seiryu Maru and her helideck
BUILT TO COPE
TO JAPAN
Theres often heavy swell in the Caspian

Seas Port of Hazars approach channel
frequently with wave heights over 2m
but Damen Dredging Equipments
specially designed DOP plain suction
dredger (PSD) is performing beyond
expectations, say owners Dragon Oil
(Turkmenistan).
Dragon, who are headquartered in
Dubai, use Hazar to support offshore
activities. The custom-built DOP-PSD was
designed, constructed and delivered in
only 10 weeks as fast developing siltation
in the region was creating urgent logistic
problems large suppliers were having
difficulty gaining access.
The ports also remotely situated and
difficult to reach, necessitating a simple,
sturdy and maintenance-friendly dredger.
Site investigations by Damen resulted in
the design of a long over 30m
dismountable pontoon equipped with a
DOP2320 submersible dredge pump
suspended on a hoisting wire and working
over a swell compensator. The pontoons
positioned in the wave direction and will
thus always rest on a minimum of two
wave crests, ensuring only vertical
movement and no hampering of dredging
activities due to rocking.
...Where the 1,700m3 TSHD Seiryu Maru

combines oil recovery with dredging
duties.
Ordered by Japans Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure and Transport and built by
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Kobe for
the Port of Nagoya, Seiryu Maru replaces
her aging namesake and was delivered in
March this year.
Shes also equipped with disaster
information collection and dispatch
functions, can react promptly in cases of
large-scale disaster, including earthquakes,
and comes complete with a helideck to
airlift emergency personnel.
under direction of a Damen field engineer

within two weeks and the crew then
trained for a further two weeks by a
Damen dredgemaster.
More info at www.damendredging.com.]
MADE IN CHINA
IHC Holland worked with China
Harbour Engineering Company on a
custom-built cutter suction dredger (CSD)
delivered to Longwon Port Group in
February this year.
The Fu Min 9 Hao has a total installed
power of 7,800kW, is 119m long by 18m
wide and was assembled at Wenchong
Shipyard in Guangzhou, southern China.
IHC co-ordinated construction at the
yard, along with dredging trials that were
carried out near Nanhui in Shanghai
District.
With tilting spuds, a 750mm suction
pipe, dredging depth of 25m and
production capacity of 3,000m3/hr, shes a
powerful addition to the Longwon fleet.
Typical Beaver dredger
More info at www.chec.bj.cn
DESTINED FOR INDIA
POWER & FELIXIBILITY

The vessel comes with a 500m floating
pipeline, four six-ton winches for steady
mooring in heavy weather and has its own
10kVA generator to allow round-the-clock
operation. A deck-mounted 314kW Scania
power pack drives the DOP pump,
winches and a 200m3/h 50mwc jetwater
pump that feeds the suction head,
assisting it to remove fine sand and silt.
The dredgers composed of standard
container pontoons that made for simple,
fast delivery by box ship and trucks. Its
coupled together via a proven system,
ensuring reliable assembly in remote areas.
And of course the pontoon dimensions
were carefully selected to ensure sufficient
freeboard in heavy swell.
After transport to Turkmenistan, the
dredger was assembled by its new crew
More info at www.mhi.co.jp
Adani Port Ltd. has ordered a Beaver

6520CSD and booster station from IHC
Holland Merwede for the Port of Mundra
in Gujarat State.
Adani own and operate Mundra, which
has developed Indias largest privately
owned liquid storage facility for all classes
of chemicals, petroleum products and
edible oils and can also receive dry cargo
and container ships up to 130,000dwt.
The CSD, being built at the IHC
Holland Beaver Dredgers yard in
Sliedrecht, is due for delivery this July.
Shell have a dredging depth of 20m, be
equipped with a direct-driven underwater
pump and will be used for deepening and
reclamation works.
More info at www.ihcholland.com
Fu Min 9 Haos business end
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Tech Specs
Schematic
of the
electric
CSDs
The electric dredgers have the

following...
Length Overall 47m

Length Over Pontoons 39.5m
Breadth Over Pontoons 9.5m
Average Draught 1.45m
Max Dredging Depth 15m
Suction / Discharge Pipe Diameter
500mm / 550mm
Installed Dredge Pump Power 750kW

Installed Cutter Power 280kW
FINALLY...
IHC Holland Merwede is building two
electric mining CSDs for the Moma heavy
mineral project in Mozambique.
Momas mining process will be based
on proven technology, comprising an
artificial mining pond with double dredge
operation and a floating plant
concentrating and separating the mineral
sands. IHC will also provide a training

programme enabling local personnel to
both work with and maintain the
dredging equipment.
The contract was awarded in February
this year by Mauritius-based joint venture
Multiplex-Bateman and the dredgers
being built at IHC Holland Beaver
Dredgers Sliedrecht yard are designed to
allow for simple, local assembly. Thats

because access to the site will pose logistic
challenges. Some of the larger dredging
components will have to be beach-landed
and, as this is written, an access road
from beach to site still has to be built.
Its a similar story for the mining
complex and its equipment the export
jetty, product storage and loading
facilities, electrical generation /
transmission equipment and personnel
accommodation are also under
construction. But Moma has resources to
sustain annual production of around
615,000 tonnes of three ilmenite products
for 80 years. Significantly, its located in
one of the poorer areas of the country and
once in full production by end-2006 will
provide employment for about 500
workers.
More info at www.ihcholland.com
DAMEN DREDGING EQUIPMENT

The Damen approach to dredging equipment
results in state-of-the-art dredging tools that
are suitable for any dedicated job.
YOUR JOB, OUR TOOLS

DAMEN HOPPER DREDGER 600
DAMEN DOP SUBMERSIBLE DREDGE PUMP
DAMEN CUTTER SUCTION DREDGER CSD 450
DAMEN DREDGING EQUIPMENT

Edisonstraat 32
3861 NE Nijkerk
P.O. Box 1021

3860 BA Nijkerk
Member of the DAMEN SHIPYARDS GROUP
phone +31 (0)33 247 40 40

fax +31 (0)33 247 40 60
info@damendredging.com
www.damendredging.com
The Netherlands
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Major Port Construction Projects
Pre-cast items fit

like a jigsaw
Where Coal Is K
Its already the UKs biggest coal port, now works underway at Humber
International Terminal (HIT) to double capacity TONY SLINN was given a grand tour
hristened HIT-2 by owners

Associated British Ports (ABP) to
distinguish it from the existing berth,
the 44.5M project is not the Port of
Imminghams only development as you
read this, construction and dredging are
underway in the Outer Harbour to create a
new 35M ro-ro terminal for DFDS Tor
Line. And theres more to follow. On the
other side of the Humber River, at ABPs
Port of Hull, the UK governments given
tentative approval to the 35M Quay 2005
development that will see a two-berth
short-sea container terminal built, enabling
the port to accommodate the new breed of
larger feeder vessels.
It will also enable ABP to relocate their
container terminal from within the Victoria
Dock, plus expand a paper products
facility. Quay 2005 will take about two
years to become operational and is likely to
get full environmental permission later this
year.
PROJECT PLANNING
Environmental considerations have been
at the top of the list during planning for all
three projects.
We began consultations over three
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Marlins proved a vital piece of equipment
years ago, ABPs engineering manager

Gordon Bulter told me, talking with
English Nature, the Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds, local authorities and
of course government agencies. As a
result, weve won their co-operation and
didnt need to go to a public enquiry.
To compensate for the environmental
impact, ABP are spending 1.5M to create
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a managed retreat offering flood

protection and a natural habitat for
wildlife at two nearby sites, 14ha at
Chowderness and 54ha at Welwick. The
works due to get underway this month
and will be carried out by HIT-2s major
contractor, Edmund Nuttall, wholl design
and build a total of 30,000m2 of
revetment protection with earthwork
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Early March and snow was in the air...
STACKING & STORAGE
King
embankments using 119,000m3 of
material at Welwick and 49,000m3 at
Chowderness.
Humber International Terminal was
first mooted in 1988 and a Harbour
Revision Order was granted in 1990,
though nearly a decade passed before the
first quay, HIT-1, became operational.
HIT-2 got the go-head in 2003,
Gordon continued, and Nuttall arrived
on site in August last year. Its scheduled
for completion by mid-September this
year.
WORK IN PROGRESS
For such a complex job, progress has
been fast and not without challenges, as
Nuttalls project manager Simon Tanner
pointed out We had to co-ordinate the
work so as not to disrupt the ports
operations, he said.
When its complete, the jetty will be
520m long and able to berth ships of up
to 160,000dwt, Simon added. In total,
therere 123 tubular piles, each 1,020mm
in diameter, 1,650 tons of rebar and
7,200m3 of concrete.
There are also no fewer than 430 precast items, including pile caps, transverse
and both long and deck beams. It
resembles a jigsaw on a giant scale and to
cope, Nuttall are using the 350-tonne
capacity crane barge Marlin to lift and
First deck gets its concrete cap
position the huge pieces.

Like HIT-1, were using Fentek
fenders, 18 of them, which will help with
parts interchange, Simon continued.
The jetty also has an integrated crane rail
for the permanent ship unloaders and
were using the new Dutch Edilon system.
Its an elastomeric bearing that supports
the rail and prevents corrosion. The preformed channels have cut the need for
diamond drilling, so its been quicker to
install and should last longer.
The unloaders are due to arrive from
makers DEMAG as you read this.
Weve gone for slewing cranes, said
Gordon, which can cope with other
cargoes, not just coal. Theyre among the
biggest in the world, will lift 50 tonnes at
50m radius and themselves weigh 525
tonnes even the hoppers weigh 200
tonnes, unladen.
Section of the Edilon elastomeric

bearing
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Both HIT-1 and HIT-2 benefit from a

purpose-built railhead and will also have
two rail-mounted stacker-reclaimers, each
capable of shifting 5,000 tonnes of coal
per hour.
The average ship coming to HIT-1
and later to HIT-2 carries around
70,000 tonnes and averages a two to
three-day turnaround, Gordon told me.
Right now, HIT-1 is handling 5M tonnes
a year, which is unloaded into hoppers
and then onto lorries. Phase 1 of HIT-2
will up capacity to 6.5M tonnes and the
second stacker-reclaimer will take that to
9M tonnes. With further investment in the
railhead, it should go up to 10M tonnes.
The initial and second stackerreclaimers will not just speed throughput,
but will also deliver coal about 15% of
a ships cargo direct to trains as well as
to the new storage area being built
alongside HIT-2s quay. Nuttall are
constructing the foundations and the
facility will measure 700m by 300m, over
half of it reclaimed land, and hold well
over 1M tonnes.
The settling ponds for coal run-off
have been built, said Gordon, and
weve a huge pollution control system
with no less than 60 sprays to keep the
dust down.
FINALLY...
As you read this, UK Dredging is busy
extracting 2.6M m3 in the first phase of
work to create the Outer Harbour ro-ro
terminal that will service 20ha of new
port area. It will have an alongside depth
of 10m at LWMS and cost 35M in total.
Nuttall are responsible for the 240mlong finger pier which again will be
fitted with Fentek fenders while the
MacGregor Group are manufacturing the
two massive linkspans, which, at 80m
long are among the worlds largest and
will attach the pier to a floating, 117mwide pontoon.
The pier will be able to berth three
ships, one seaward and two landward,
Simon said, and were also carrying out
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Campaign
Artist's impression of the MacGregor

Group's Outer Harbour linkspan, due to
be operational by early 2006
other work in conjunction. Well

strengthen 80m of the existing
Immingham Bulk Terminal and demolish
a dolphin to widen the entrance, along
with further demolition and rebuilding of
the western lead-in jetty.
Its an 8.835M contract that will see
the entrance widened to about 300m.
Weve already carried out simulations
in Holland with ships captains and pilots
to ensure safe berthing, Gordon added.
Again, its a complex project, coping
with the Humbers 7m tidal range and coordinating with the dredging team.
There are a lot of interfaces, but our
relationships with the pile and fender
contractors, the concrete suppliers and our
other sub-contractors are excellent, said
Simon. Anyway, its what makes the
work interesting!
More info at www.edmund-nuttall.co.uk
+ www.abports.co.uk
Simon Tanner (l.) and Gordon Bulter,

with HIT-1 in the background
UKD Marlin moored alongside HWBs crane barge Mortlift discharging through a
floating pipeline to...
Both HIT-2 and the Outer Harbour

project have seen UK Dredging
co-ordinate an extensive campaign, as
general manager JEFF NEALE relates
At HIT, we initially created a bund encasing
75,000m2 of foreshore and formed by
dredging a trench around the perimeter of the
site, back filling it with dredged sand and
finally overfilling with chalk and rock armour
trucked in to form the bund wall.
This first phase was carried out October to
December 2001 with continuous survey
monitoring to ensure that the design profile
was achieved. UKD sub-contracted Humber
Work Boats (HWB) cutter suction dredger
(CSD) John M for the trench work, the
70,000m3 of silt being pumped into a predredged box offshore from where the trailing
suction hopper dredger (TSHD) UKD Marlin redredged the material for sea disposal.
Phase 2 involved back filling the trench with
sand won from the sunk dredged channel as a
beneficial use of the on-going maintenance
dredging programme 50,000m3 of sand was
dredged and pumped into the trench by UKD
Marlin.
HWBs crane barge Mortlift was moored
adjacent to the site and UKD Marlin would
moor alongside the barge and discharge her
cargo of 2,000m3 of sand through a floating
pipeline to the HWB vessel Rebecca M, where
the pipeline terminated in a T-shaped
The Outer
Harbour in late
March as the
dredgers get to
work
The Managers
Gordon Bulter found himself at
Immingham as a result of a mutiny!
After 12 years building and helping run
South Africas huge Richards Bay coal
terminal, he retired at 43 and bought a
yacht, but the crew, my wife and kids,
mutinied between Cape Town and
Namibia no shops, no friends, no
discos. So we flew to the UK...
Simon Tanner has been with Edmund
Nuttall for 10 years, first as an agent,
and has worked on a large coastal
engineering project as well as the HIT
expansion and now the Outer Harbour
a challenge he relishes.
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...CSD Rebbecca M, which used a

T-shaped bar to spread the sand
spreading bar. Rebecca M would slowly move
down the channel laying a 4m-high bed of
sand within the trench.
The work was completed in late December
2001 and subsequently capped with chalk
from landward. The berth box has been
partially dredged by UKD Marlin, but there
remains around 30,000m3 of clay to be
removed before the berth becomes
operational.
OUTER HARBOUR
Were dredging 2.6M m3 at the new ro-ro
terminal, to give a design depth of 10m below
Admiralty chart datum (ACD).
ACD approximates to LAT (lowest
astronomical tide the lowest theoretical tide
possible at a particular location). MLWS at
Immingham, however, is around 0.9m above
ACD so at MLWS therell be around 10.9m of
water at the terminals berths.
Following initial work by UKD Seahorse,
Cherry Sand and UKD Marlin, dredging of the
overlying silts & sands has been sub-contracted
to Westminster Dredgings CSD Seine, which
is assisted on site by UKD Seahorse.
Its a similar operation to HIT-2, the silts
pumped into a box outside the site for redredging by UKDs vessels, primarily UKD
Marlin.
Rohde Nielsens sub-contracted to dredge
the underlying clay to its final level. Their
bucket ladder dredger Ajax R, expected on site
this June accompanied by two split hoppers
and supported by UKD Seahorse, will do the
work. And the clay will be disposed of at
licensed disposal sites near to the sunk
dredged channel.
More info at www.ukdredging.co.uk
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Environmental Aspects of Dredging
Team Changes
A decade after its formation, the US National Dredging Team (NDT)
has updated its aims and responsibilities, writes CRAIG VOGT
irst set up in 1995

to help address
issues concerning
dredged material
management and disposal, the NDT has
become a vital task force.
Now its implementing a new Action
Agenda that aims to promote the
beneficial use of dredged material, improve
regional sediment management and
streamline regional operations.
But first...
A LITTLE BACKGROUND
Worldwide, a massive amount of
dredged materials dumped at sea.
According to the secretariat for the
London Convention the primary
international agreement covering ocean
dumping roughly 150M to 400M tonnes
of dredged material is disposed of each
year in Convention waters. In the US
alone, about 20% of the several hundred
million cubic yards of sediment annually
removed from waterways, ports and
harbours is dumped at sea.
Dredged material is a key focus of the
London Convention and its contracting
parties have developed extensive guidance
on best practice for its disposal. The US
joined the convention upon its
inauguration in 1975 and, as part of its
own programme, formed the NDT in 1995
to help improve co-ordination of the
dredging process.
The NDT, which aims to promote
national and regional consistency on
dredging issues and provide a forum for
stakeholders, federal, state and local
agencies, comprises the following federal
agencies:
US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) co-chair
US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
co-chair
Maritime Administration
National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administrations National Marine Fisheries
Service and National Ocean Service
Fish and Wildlife Service, and
US Coast Guard.
The US Navy and the US Geological
Survey also participate.
In most areas of the US including the
Great Lakes, the Northeast and Southeast,
Western Gulf, Southern California,
Northern California, Pacific Northwest,
Pacific Islands and Alaska Regional
Dredging Teams (RDTs) have been
established. They comprise federal and
state agencies and other stakeholders and
also aim to improve dredged material
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management and increase public education

and community involvement.
FUTURE AGENDA
In its first five years, the NDT addressed
several critical issues regarding dredged
material management planning, the
dredging review process, funding and
scientific uncertainties.
In 2001 it sponsored a stakeholder
workshop to assess, and if necessary
adjust, its role in dredged material
management. This resulted in a new action
plan: Dredged Material Management
Action Agenda for the Next Decade
which makes 22 recommendations on:
Beneficial use of dredged material
Regional sediment management
Emerging issues, and
Strengthening RDTs.
Lets look at them in more detail...
BENEFICIAL USES Of the millions of
cubic yards of sediment dredged in the US
each year, the majoritys dumped in open
water and confined or upland disposal
facilities. Yet a large amounts suitable for
environmentally beneficial uses, including
habitat restoration and creation, beach
nourishment, aquaculture, forestry,
agriculture, mine reclamation and
industrial / commercial development.
So why isnt it being used in this way?
Commonly cited hurdles include:
Increased costs
Need for earlier planning
Need for more widespread
co-ordination, and
Widespread misconception that dredged
material is a waste and not a resource.
One of the most innovative uses of

dredged material is Illinois mud-toparks programme, where dredged
materials used to cap industrial
wasteland and create parkland
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If the beneficial use of dredged material

is to become a viable alternative, the
NDTs determined to make it a priority at
all levels. Funding must be increased, local
planning must be proactive in identifying
projects, sponsorship and suitability and
the general public and stakeholders must
start to recognize that dredged material is
a valuable resource and not just a waste
product.
Action Agenda Recommendations
include guidance on beneficial use projects,
the role of federal standards, guidance on
how to improve the USACE / EPA
beneficial use website and identification of
factors needed to develop a beneficial use
tracking system.
SEDIMENT MANAGEMENT Excessive
sediment erosion, transport and deposition
are estimated to cost the US about
US$16Bn a year.
Sediment overloading due to land and
stream erosion is thought to contribute to
high turbidity, loss of flood-carrying
capacity and sediment deposition in
navigable waterways. And a shortage of
sediment also leads to coastal erosion,
stream bank erosion and wetlands loss in
many areas. Yet many water resource
projects designed to remedy local sediment
problems create even larger problems
further away from the site.
NDT will now take measures to ensure
federal, state and local stakeholders can
achieve sediment management in the
context of watershed management and
that watershed planning incorporates
dredging. In this way, sources of sediment,
beneficial use opportunities and funding
can all be adequately addressed.
include the formation of new local
planning groups (LPGs) to develop
dredged material management plans and
to sponsor a national workshop on
sediment management (planned for 2006).
EMERGING ISSUES Over the past
decade such new legislation as the
Essential Fish Habitat, Environmental
Windows, and Total Maximum Daily
Load designations have created new
challenges for dredging.
To ensure that the review process is
conducted in a timely, efficient and
predictable manner, planning strategies
must be flexible enough to accommodate
emerging issues, while communication on
these issues must be open and early.
include guidance on how these issues affect
dredging and dredged material
management.
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REGIONAL DREDGING TEAMS

Eleven RDTs have been established
throughout the US, several of which have
been very successful, though others have
reported mixed results.
Action Agenda Recommendations seek
to foster the success of new and
established RDTs through the development
of charters and outreach plans, dredged
material management plans and annual
meetings between all RDTs and the NDT.
FINALLY...
Dredging will remain critical for London
Convention parties and to stay consistent
with the Conventions objectives, a coordinated approach to dredged material
management is vital.
The federal agencies on the NDT are
currently working to improve the nations
dredged material management process and
to implement the Action Agendas 22
recommendations.
Through these avenues, its hoped that
effective dredged material management
that incorporates beneficial uses, coordination among all stakeholders and a
watershed-wide approach, will help reduce
the ocean disposal of this important
resource.
The Port of Houston reclaimed Redfish Island and created a sanctuary for birds
using sediment taken from the shipping channel, while...
...dredged materials being used to create levees at the 1,200-acre Bolsa Chica
wetlands restoration project
The NDTs Action Agenda can be

downloaded from its website at
www.epa.gov
About The Author

Craig Vogt is deputy director of the US
EPAs Oceans and Coastal Protection
division, chairman of the London
Conventions Scientific Group, chair for
the Western Dredging Associations
environmental commission and a member
of the World Organization of Dredging
Associations environmental commission.
Within the EPA, hes responsible for
managing the Ocean Dumping
Programme (including dredged material),
the National Estuary / Coastal Watershed
Protection Programmes and the Coastal
Wastewater Programme. This article is
based on a talk he gave at WODCON
XVII and is published with permission
from CEDA.
The London Convention And The 1996 Protocol

One of the oldest global conventions for
the protection of the marine
environment, the LONDON CONVENTION
promotes the effective control of
pollution sources and the prevention of
pollution by dumping
In force since 1975, the Convention has 80
contracting parties, each of which aims to
control ocean dumping through regulatory
programmes that assess the need for disposal
and its potential impacts.
Roughly 80-85% of all dumping permits
reported to the Conventions secretariat are for
dredged material and Convention parties have
adopted several initiatives to improve the
evaluation of dredged material for disposal as a

result. The Conventions technical advisory
body, the Scientific Group, (SG) has also
recently drafted guidelines for the assessment
of dredged material quality, providing
additional guidance on:
Selection and evaluation of substances of
concern
Field sampling, and
Physical, chemical and biological analysis.
The SG also includes dredged material
sessions at its technical workshops.
The 1996 Protocol is a new treaty, separate
from the London Convention and intended to
eventually replace it. Tougher measures prohibit
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the disposal of waste at sea, though exceptions

include dredged material, sewage sludge, fish
waste, vessels, platforms, organic material of
natural origin and bulky items. These are,
however, subject to a careful evaluation of
potential environmental effects as described
in Annex Two of the Protocol and the Waste
Assessment Guidelines (WAG) for each
waste category. The dredged material WAG,
for example, includes guidance on evaluating
the need for dredging and disposal,
characterization of the material and selection
of a disposal site.
More info at
www.londonconvention.org
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Artists impression
of the expansion
project
Will Gijns
Ships Come In?
Spains largest port infrastructure project this
year, costing over 500M, is now underway at
the Port of Gijn but where will the future
traffic growth come from to justify the
investment, asks BARNABY EALES?
Cash &
Capacities
Confident
chairman Fernando
Menndez Rexach
ver the next 46 months, engineers

will extend the Port of Gijns
seawall to 3,834m, giving the port
greater protection from the fierce Atlantic
swell, with the final objective of doubling
port capacity.
On completion of the seawall extension,
land fill projects will create a new solid
bulk terminal and the port will be dredged
to 20m allowing three bulk carriers to
berth simultaneously.
Port authority chairman Fernando
Rexach says Gijn the countrys leading
dry bulk port is preparing to handle the
worlds largest bulk carriers and needs the
enlargement in part because therere often
six-day delays for ships at the European
Bulk Handling Installation (EBHI)
terminal.
Its true that overall trade at Gijn, in the
Asturias region, increased last year by
6.91%, thanks to a rise in solid bulk
movements. Of that, EBHI handled
16.56M tonnes of iron ore and coal, up
12.9% on 2003.
But does that justify doubling capacity?
Wheres the extra trade coming from, DPC
asked the chairman?
Nothings guaranteed in this life, but we
do have a strategy to increase trade, said
Don Fernando. Were now negotiating
with operators and during the course of the
year we believe Gijn will obtain a further
million tonnes of bulk trades.
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Gijns seawall and berth

construction specs are as follows...
The port authority also points to recent

trade forecasts that calculate 20M tonnes
of coal and steel will need to be moved at
the port in the near future.
TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY

According to EBHI general manager Jos
ngel de Martino Tenas, the recent rise in
trade came as a result of increased
productivity which is expected to
further increase when EBHI introduces a
novel, $3.9M fully-automated ship
unloading system this July.
Cash of the total 580M, 250M came

from the European Investment Bank
(finance line over six years), 250M in
European Union Cohesion funds and the
port authority contributed 80M.
Current EBHI Terminal has a storage
capacity of 500,000 tonnes, annual
unloading capacity of 17M tonnes, draught
of 18m and can handle two ships at a time.
Future EBHI Terminal will have a storage
capacity of 2M tonnes, annual unloading
capacity of 25M tonnes, a draught of 20m
and will handle three ships of up to
230,000dwt at a time.
Unloading a bulker at EBHI
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Announcing the project (l. to r.): port director Jos Luis Daz Rato; Asturias
transport executive Francisco Gonzlez Buenda; Gijns mayor Paz Fernndez
Felgueroso; Asturias president Vicente lvarez Areces; port authority chairman
Fernando Menndez Rexach and Carreos mayor ngel Riego
EBHI will be the first bulk terminal in

the world to implement the system, he
says, and it will lead to a gradual 30%
reduction in the workforce manual
tasks will be limited to supervising the
unloading and cleaning hulls once
discharge is complete.
Introduction of the system will
improve safety conditions for workers,
who will operate it remotely, and it will
reduce labour costs, de Martino said,
adding that many port authority officials
from around the world have already paid
visits to EBHI to learn more about it.
Coal, iron ore and steel are generally
stable trades at Gijn, with marginal
annual variations, and despite industry
concerns over the implications of the
Kyoto Protocol on environment
emissions, Don Fernando believes coal
demand will continue to rise.
Electricity companies such as
Iberdrola have already issued petitions to
establish [coal-fired] combined cycle
electricity generation plants, he said,
adding that increased industrial and
domestic energy demands also justify the
installation of an LNG regasification
plant at Gijn. The port authority is
currently lobbying industry and central
government for the latters construction.
In a bid to further diversify future
traffic, Gijns also seeking to participate

in new short sea initiatives to trigger roro and new box traffic.
BIGGER PICTURE
Whatever its initiatives, Gijn will face
fierce competition from its distant cousin,
Bilbao, which already has a new terminal
with a fully functional LNG regasification
plant (see the April issue of DPC ed.).
And as you read this, Gijn will have lost
all its container lines, following a decision
by Maersk to move the traffic to Bilbao.
A recent study by the University of
Oviedo, however, provides some comfort
and claims that the Asturias regional
economy will grow 6.3% between 2011
and 2040 as a result of Gijns
enlargement. Local shipping agents have
also welcomed the port authoritys
initiative, but have warned that to realise
its full growth potential, Gijn will need
improved transport links with central
Spain.
Jos ngel de Martino Tenas agrees:
The success of the port enlargement will
depend on the development of hinterland
trade, he told us.
In response, Don Fernando says talks
are now underway between regional and
central authorities to determine the
nature of future road and rail links to the
DPC
Gijns looking to expand ro-ro traffic
port he points to the fact a road tunnel

under construction beneath hills to the
west of port will be competed by the end
of 2006.
FINALLY...
Don Fernandos sure that the future
establishment of regular shipping lines
will attract finished steel products and
scrap metals to be exported by sea.
Additionally, the port authoritys
involved in three projects to provide the
port with linked logistics facilities in
Venta de Banos (Palencia), Toral de los
Vados (Ponferrada-Leon) and La Robla
(Leon). Its also drawing up plans to
establish a logistics area to attract new
investment in the Asturias region.
Gijn aims to reinforce its speciality in
dry bulk trades as the basis for
developing further trades ... only time will
tell if the gamble pays off.
More info at www.puertogijon.es
About The Author

A former Reuters and newspaper
journalist specialising in maritime
affairs, London-born Barnaby Eales has
been Lloyds RegisterFairplays Spain
correspondent for over four years.
Project Outline
Consuming over 3M m3 of concrete and
rock, plus 33M m3 of land fill material,
Gijns 3,834m seawall is the key to the
ports expansion
A row of eight, 31m tall vertical concrete
blocks spreading over 1.53km will reinforce
the wall, which, once completed in 2007, will
allow work to start on construction of the
40ha Muelle Norte (North Harbour). To build
it, 20,000m3 of sand will have to be dredged
from port authority waters during 2007 and
Gijn will open a tender for the construction
and operation of the new terminal at that
time.
Meanwhile, the existing EBHI is likely to be
transformed into a ro-ro and container
terminal.
Fernando Menndez Rexach signs the deal with construction enterprise

manager Ana Dizy
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around the 19 piles. These collars
supported RMDK Megashor beams,
which in turn supported the Super Slim
Soldiers, Alsec aluminium beams and
plywood decking. This was sufficient to
take the weight of the soffit construction,
the rebar for the first pour and the access
load 11 tonnes on each collar in total.
The dismantling procedure involved
removing the H33 girders by crane and
transferring them to a waiting barge,
while the soffit falsework was lowered in
large sections onto the barge.
The project spans two years initial
falsework went up in November, 2003,
the first pour took place last March and
the finished station will be handed over to
the RNLI by the end of this year.
ENVIRONMENTAL DRILLING
River bed and port access channel silt
contamination is a vastly complex
problem, with contaminants layered over
time, varying in make up and possibly
coming from several different origins.
But specialist contractors Drilcorp are
using a new technology that makes life
easier.
Last year, the firm was contracted to
assess river bed silts in an area in the
north of England and took the
opportunity to use Sonicbore flush-less
drilling technology to sample core
material. The extraction was designed to
ensure that the material found in the site
investigation was representative of the
entire site. Core recovery was excellent

during the first phase of work, said the
firm, and subsequent dredging works
have been successfully carried out based
on evidence found in the samples.
On the strength of this project, Drilcorp
was contracted to carry out a second
extraction from the same river, only this
time the job was more complicated
because boreholes had to be made not just
in the rivers main body, but also in an
abandoned drydock where silt had built
up over several years. Little was known
about the drydock silts, other than that
the deeper deposits were likely to
demonstrate high volumes of harmful
contaminants ... which urgently had to be
controlled.
Access to the dock via pontoon was
limited to a short period of time during
high tide because the dock gates lay just
under the water level, partially blocking
the entrance. And drilling was tougher
because the silt lay directly on top of the
docks concrete bottom and was so poorly
consolidated that without a good plug in
the end of the core barrel, the silt would
have passed back out of the barrel upon
extraction.
By modifying its drilling systems to
incorporate several special plastic core
catchers, Drilcorp was able to hold the
sample in place and yet not alter its
composition as it passed through the
catchers into the core liner.
The system was so efficient that several
locations could be covered in a single day
DPC
and the drilling time averaged just 15

minutes per hole with the majority of
that spent mooring the pontoons, said the
firm. The high quality of the core samples
also meant a complicated set of tests could
be executed, including strength anaylsis,
they concluded.
WHARF WORKS
Across the Atlantic, in Canadas New
Brunswick province, Shippagans Old
North Wharf was recently rebuilt to
accommodate larger fishing vessels in
record time, thanks to innovative planning
and techniques.
Use of special shoes produced for the
HZ piles by Associated Pile & Fitting
meant that pre-drilling was not necessary:
a Delmag D 19-32 diesel impact hammer
was used to drive the piles straight into
the mudstone layer. In addition, a twolevel template designed by Arcelor was
used for the installation, built at
contractor Comeau & Savoie
Constructions shop and based on
supplied drawings with modifications to
accommodate the driving shoes.
Shippagans existing concrete wharf
deck, cope wall, wood fenders, guide rails
and related hardware were first removed,
then a soil investigation was carried out
by AMEC Earth and Environmental. In
general the sites characterized by a 2m to
4m layer of compact-to-dense silty sand
and gravel, which overlies an extremely
weak bedrock. And for this reason a
Sample of mud removed

from the site
Drilcorp deploys its Sonicbore core

extraction technology in the
abandoned drydock
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BeauDredge deployed onboard a

pontoon
Mounted on an excavator, the

BeauDredge tool is inserted through
the upper layer...
What Lies Beneath

BOSKALIS has launched a new dredging system
designed to avoid the pitfalls associated with
contaminated sediment disposal
C
...it then rotates around a vertical
access, breaking up sand for
extraction through an inner pipe...
alled BeauDredge, its a sub-surface

keyhole system that deepens
channels and lowers ground levels
by dredging beneath contaminated upper
layers, producing clean sand that can be
used for capping or construction.
By extracting usable sand from under
polluted soil, the system offers significant
advantages at contaminated sites, where
managing such materials disposal can be
very costly.
Applications include deepening and
flood protection, while large-scale
projects can be carried out by deploying
BeauDredge multi-pipe systems.
KEYHOLE DREDGING?
...thereby lowering the ground level

...Is specifically designed to tackle areas

of widespread contaminated upper soils
and the associated high costs of
conventional dredging in large-scale
projects, such as those required to prevent
catastrophic river flooding. And while
bulk sub-surface sand and gravel
extraction is not a new technique, this
precision tool ensures that contaminated
and clean soils are not mixed together,
says the firm.
In the case of river flooding, Boskalis
envisages the large-scale use of
BeauDredge to lower the ground level
and create huge water retention basins
behind rivers main flood defences. These
basins will capture surface water during
the winter months, for controlled release
during the summer. The clean dredged
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material can then be used to cap

contaminated upper layers and reinforce
hard flood defences.
The BeauDredge tool can be mounted
on a crane, an excavator, rigged ashore or
on a pontoon / other vessel for floating
applications.
The device rotates around a vertical
axis, the lower end of which is fitted with
a horizontal, high-pressure water-jetting
head, which breaks up the sand for
extraction through an inner pipe. Ingoing
and outgoing flows are balanced, to avoid
a blow-out or collapse.
The tools inserted into the upper layer
by displacement before extraction begins
and then begins horizontal jetting when
the clean soils reached.
FINALLY...
Pilot trials of BeauDredges ground
lowering capabilities on a site at Vlijmen
in Holland were followed by a second
series last spring. A water retention basin
near the Herfterwetering River was built,
with the surface lowered by an average
of 0.7 m and the upper layer of
agricultural soils left in place.
A final trial took place more recently at
Ketelmeer, where a 3m-thick clay layer
was lowered by 2m over a 10-week
period with minimal turbidity and no
detectable impact on water quality.
And now the systems available for
commercial application.
More info at www.boskalis.com
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Asias Fortune
In The Pipeline
Excavation work
underway
The Mumbai High Fields to Uran Trunkline Project is the biggest pipeline
contract in the Asia Pacific region and its nearing completion...
arried out by Hyundai Heavy

Industries (HHI) through a
US$600M contract with
government-owned Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation (ONGC), the project will see
two new 204km pipelines laid to
transport crude oil and natural gas from
various offshore platforms in the Mumbai
High Fields to the Uran Onshore
Terminal.
The 30-inch subsea oil pipeline and 28inch gas line will serve the soon-to-beredeveloped western offshore field as well
as replace the ageing oil trunk line system
at the Mumbai High offshore field in the
Arabian Sea, which after over 25 years of
operation has exceeded its design life.
DELEGATING RESPONSIBILITY
Last year HHI subcontracted Boskalis
Westminster Middle East to carry out the
projects pre-trenching, backfilling and
landfall works, which included:
Trench dredging (pre-trenching) from
the landfall point to the port limit,
19.5km offshore
Dry excavation of the onshore / tidal
section of the trench
Dredging a lay-barge access area
Maintenance of the trench and laybarge access area during the period in
between the completion of the pretrenching and laying the first pipeline
Backfilling of the trench from the
landfall point to the port limit
Backfilling of the trench in the onshore /
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tidal section with dry equipment, and

Backfilling of the lay-barge access area.
The section of trench close to the shore
had to be 8m wide, expanding to 10m
further offshore. Soil conditions vary from
very soft, silty clay to weathered basalt
and the pipeline will require 3m and 1m
of cover respectively.
A 60m-wide access channel had to be
dredged from 1.6km to 3km offshore, to
guarantee at least 4m water depth below
chart datum so that HHIs lay-barge could
get close enough to the shore to realize the
beach-pull.
For the dredging operations Boskalis
mobilized the backhoe dredger Colbart
from Abu Dhabi and the trailing suction
hopper dredgers Flevo and Seaway from
Portugal and Singapore respectively.
Colbart dredged the inshore trench
section, where the water depth was
insufficient for hopper dredgers, plus the

areas of hard material.
The 2,130m3 Flevo was tasked with
dredging the shallow sections of the
trench, while the larger 13,255m3 Seaway
worked on the offshore section.
WORK WINDOW
Operations had to be completed during
the dry season, because from this month
to September the monsoon dominates the
regions weather, churning up the sea and
making maritime operations practically
impossible.
Work on the project began early last
November, when two land-based
excavators dug a trench from the landfall
point to about 200m offshore. By the end
of that month the Colbart had begun
dredging loose material, before replacing
its bucket with an S35 hydrohammer to
The 2,130m3
TSHD Flevo
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Colbart at work
Cobalts hydrohammer made light

work of the basalt rock
cope with the remaining layers of hard

basalt material. During a two-and-a-halfweek period, all this rocky material was
broken up, before being dredged.
In early January, Flevo removed roughly
300,000m3 of material from waters
sometimes as shallow as 4m, which was
deposited in a temporary storage area
1km away from the trench, its location
chosen based on optimal cycle times and
the provision that no material would flow
back into the dredged trench.

The same month Seaway removed
roughly 1.5M m3 of material from the
offshore section of trench, which was also
stored in a temporary disposal area.
FINALLY...
With the trench completed in early
February, HHI began work on the beachpull with the lay-barge HD289.
Land-based excavators then backfilled
the trench, while the Colbart started

backfilling the section of trench near the
shore.
HD289 was still laying the pipeline as
we went to press and should have reached
the port limits by the time you read this.
Times of the essence as the project must
be completed before the start of the
monsoon season this month.
More info at www.boskalis.com +
www.hhi.co.kr
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The main channel will be dredged

from St. Vincent Gulf to the Outer
Harbour container terminal
Head To Head
The Port of Adelaides won the race with Melbourne to become
the first to deepen its shipping channel can the nearby rival still
salvage its reputation as a major gateway, asks STEPHEN COUSINS?
he South
Australian
(SA)
government has
agreed to provide
A$15M of the A$45M required to deepen
Adelaides Outer Harbour Channel
(OHC), effectively giving the project the
green light owners Flinders Ports will
provide the remaining cash, which will
enable access by heavily laden ships and
post-Panamax container vessels, plus
provide a major boost to the local
economy.
The Port of Melbourne also urgently

needs its access channel deepened, but
delayed environmental and other
approvals prevent work from beginning.
Its a worry for importers and exporters,
many of whom are wary of losing
shipping customers to competitors
Sydney, Brisbane and particularly
neighbour Adelaide.
Flinders Ports CEO Vincent Tremaine,
however, is understandably a happy man.
For far too long, this state has worn
the poor cousin tag to interstate ports
due to the shallow depth of its shipping
Flinders Ports CEO Vincent Tremaine overlooks the area to be deepened at

Outer Harbour
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channel, he said. Im confident that in

the medium term, with the growth in our
volumes and with the new channel
depths, well be able to fully handle SAbased imports & exports and that means
some of the trade that currently goes
from Adelaide through Melbourne will
eventually come through Adelaide.
THE PROJECT
Dredging work to deepen Adelaides
OHC from 12.2m to 14.2m was due to
begin as we went to press and is
scheduled for completion late this year.
Dredging International subsidiary
Dredeco was named as preferred
contractor for the job, which will also see
the channel lengthened from the current
9km to 11.7km, starting about 8.5km
west of the main breakwater entrance and
extending through the passenger and
freight wharves, ending about 400m
north of the Outer Harbour container
terminal.
Roughly 2.7M m3 of spoil will be
removed from the channel and
transported to an environmentally
acceptable site in St. Vincent Gulf, 35km
northeast of the port.
In conjunction with the dredging,
Flinders Ports plans to spend A$13M on
a 125m extension to the container berth,
allowing it to accommodate larger box
ships as they come into service, while a
new grain terminals planned to be built
after the extensions completed.
Dredging Projects
DPC
bridges accessing Outer Harbour will be

toll free. It had been feared that levies
would be imposed, making their use too
costly for freight businesses. There are
still reservations, however the new
bridges will be opening rather than fixed
structures and as such may impede the
flow of land traffic to and from Outer
Harbour.
SHALLOW WATER = BACK WATER
Aerial view of Adelaides Outer

Harbour terminal, which will also be
extended
CASH FLOW
South Australia State stands to gain
significantly from the channel deepening.
An independent study estimated that this
could amount to A$500M to A$1.9Bn
economy-wide over 20 years, which
doesnt include benefits to the grain
industry resulting from the use of larger
ships.
And Flinders Ports plans to recoup half
its $30M investment through the
introduction of a levy on containers and
grain handled through Adelaide.
Traders will also benefit from news
that two proposed A$178M road and rail
Vincent Tremaines words will not have

fallen on deaf ears at Melbourne, whose
own deepening programme hangs in the
balance. Current channel depth
limitations in Port Phillip Bay and the
Yarra River mean over 30% of box ships
calling at Melbourne cant load to their
full capacity and with the worldwide
trend towards larger container vessels,
that figure can only rise.
But the Victoria governments still
reluctant to deliver the necessary
environmental and technical approvals
and has requested a second
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on
the deepening, despite having already
waited three years for the first one.
Shipping lines are critical of the
decision: I never thought thered come a
time that Melbourne would play second
fiddle to Adelaide, this will cost
Victorians a lot of money, said ANL
MD John Lines.
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And it means ANL, a subsidiary of

French line CMA CGM, is now
reconsidering forward plans that were
based on greater depth being available in
2007 probably to the benefit of
Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, Lines
added.
His disappointment was shared by
Victorian Freight and Logistics Council
(VFLC) chairman John Begley: We have
every respect for the environmental effects
process and other safeguards that have
been developed for the channel deepening
project, he said, but we must get things
in perspective. While still more studies are
undertaken, decisions are already being
taken that shape the next 10, 20 and 50
years.
The bodies that have joined VFLC in
supporting channel deepening are,
together, the best placed to see the big
picture and thats why were amplifying
our call for action. For Melbourne,
shallow water equals backwater.
Shipping Australia CEO Llew Russell
was critical of Victorias failure to put a
time limit on the new research: Failure to
set a date for completion of the
investigation will put at risk the social and
economic benefits that will flow to
Victoria from this project without
necessarily meeting all the environmental
concerns that have been identified.
And Neil Coulson, CEO of the
Victorian Employers Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, added that
Melbourne second fiddle?
Melbourne channel deepening was:

Australias number one infrastructure
priority delays have already cost the
port additional capacity in the hardpressed North and East Asia-Australia
trade.
MSC, for example, has reversed their
planned Wallaby service upgrade and
will revert to 3,400 TEU ships after
undertaking two trial voyages with the
4,395 TEU MSC Matilde and cancelling
one by the 5,050 TEU MSC Poh Lin. At
13.5m, these ships draught exceeded
Melbournes current limits by over a
metre and their 294m length also required
special dispensation from port regulations.
FINALLY...
With 17 other Victorian and national
organisations warning that Melbourne
will be increasingly left off the
international trade map, the Victorian
government is being hard pressed, but

stated that an independent report into the
projects initial environmental impact
statement had raised over a hundred
unanswered questions. Thats despite the
A$12M the Port of Melbourne
Corporation (PoMC) spent generating the
initial EIS, which was released last July
for public scrutiny.
Regardless, the government wants more
information on:
Alternative channel-deepening designs
that might reduce environmental impact
Dredging technologies, with a possible
trial project undertaken by PoMC
Sediment disposal methods, and
Turbidity and the extent to which silt
and sand will be disturbed by the
dredging campaign.
It could be a long wait...
More info at: www.flindersports.com.au
+ www.portofmelbourne.com
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Product News
Precise Profiling
IXSEA has launched a range of sub-bottom profilers, designed
for demanding geophysical applications from coastal works to
full ocean depth surveys
The Echoes range can improve the measurement of sediment acoustics

and geology through increased penetration and superior resolution.
The Chirp 3.5kHz full ocean depth, hull-mounted sediment sounder is
specially designed to equip new oceanographic vessels and to replace
older 3.5kHz systems while the Chirp 10 kHz pole mounted / over the
side sub-bottom profiler is ideal for shallow water and is particularly
suitable for pre-dredging surveys. Finally, the Chirp 1.5 kHz is an all-inone solution that covers shallow waters to full ocean depths.
Echoes survey solutions
Straight
Lines
DIGEST
KEEP IT CLEAN
Swedish specialists FIXTURLASER

offer an entry level shaft
alignment tool
The Dirigo uses the latest laser
technology for measuring and
adjusting alignment and combines
pinpoint accuracy with simplicity of
use.
And with misaligned shafts
responsible for up to 50% of
rotating machinery breakdowns,
Fixturlaser say Dirigo will save both
time and money.
Reverso
PumpsFPS150DC fuel
polishing system
uses highefficiency filters
to separate
Polishing
water, the
your system primary source
of contaminated
diesel, from fuel on either
recreational or commercial boats.
Hand-held Dirigo
PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE
Webtec Products
has launched
the Webster
DHM403, first in
a range of
Small But Powerful
Webtecs
multimeter
Global Network
The new minis
The ideal tools for many

different applications and
users...
Thats Kubotas claim for the
2.6-tonne KX61-3 and 2.8-tonne
KX71-3, two powerfully upgraded
mini excavators that set new
standards.
Both come with a longer dipper

fitted as standard, the reliable
V1505-E2-BH fuel-efficient engine,
bucket cylinder hoses routed
through the arm, boom cylinders
shielded by a thick steel plate and
the highest bucket digging force of
any excavator in their class.
TELENOR SATELLITE SERVICES

unveils a new portfolio of
broadband products...
portable, digital hydraulic

multimeters, designed to detect
imminent hydraulic
failures so
preventative action
can be taken.
UPDATED HANDHELD
Standard
Horizons HX270E
hand-held VHF
features improved
functions, including
a long-life NiMH
battery, 600mW
audio output, large
LCD screen, backlit
display and
keypad.
The HX270E
Skys
the
limit
For mariners, they include new

customized, dedicated and shared
access solutions for vessels ranging
from large ocean-going ships to
small workboats with a typical
throughput ranging from 128Kbps
to 2Mbps and beyond.
Control your dredging project from your office with the HMT
System
Remote analysis of dredge performance

Calculation/documentation of production
Database system for project development
Hahlbrock Marine Technologie HMT

Holzbruecke 7, 20459 Hamburg, Germany
Tel:
+49 40 32004921
Fax:
+49 40 32004923
e-mail: hmt@dredging.de
web:
http://www.dredging.de
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