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High-Point in Complex Port Design
01 Feb 2002
Consulting engineers HighPoint Rendel are providing verification of difficult designs for a £250 million deepwater port with a container terminal and free trade zone to be built in the Dominican Republic.
The work involves verifying designs for quaywalls, the container yard, roads, utilities and buildings in the context of difficult ground conditions such as a requirement to build complicated foundations over coral reefs.
The Puerto Caucedo Multimodal Terminal on the Caucedo peninsula will embrace a variety of economic activities, including a transhipment centre for international containers and an international distribution centre. It is being financed with private capital under a design and construct contract with Bouygues TP/Bouygues Offshore. The port and container terminal will be operated by CSX World Terminals.
The port will have a 600m berth initially, to eventually be extended to 1,100m, and a container handling yard with capacity to store up to 12,000 40ft containers. There will be four ship-side gantry cranes, eight RTGs to support the discharge and loading of vessels as well as receiving and despatch at the port gates, and a multipurpose berth for servicing ro-ro ships and the reception of cruise ships.
MJ Information No: 16705
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