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UK Dredging Extends its Reach
01 Oct 2005
UK Dredging (UKD), Associated British Ports' (ABP) dredging arm, 'moved from strength to strength' in the first half of 2006, said the company in a statement issued in September, with its fleet employed in both ABP and third-party dredging works.
UKD, based at the Port of Cardiff, is currently managing the dredging for ABP's Immingham Outer Harbour project. The first phase of the dredging operation was completed in June 2005, with the removal of over two million cubic metres of alluvial silts.
The second phase will see UKD remove an estimated 550,000m 3of glacial clays.
UKD's six vessels, supported by two chartered dredgers, have played a prominent role in the project's dredging programme.
While UKD remains committed to ABP's port developments on the Humber, growth in other regions continues strongly, with a number of third-party contracts being awarded to UKD, including a three-year term contract with the Port of Bristol.
The contract, signed in early 2005, charged UKD with the maintenance dredging of the port's dock entrances at Portbury and Avonmouth, and was secured following the completion of trial dredges at the port.
UKD Bluefin spent five weeks in early 2005 on charter to the Danish dredging contractor Rohde Nielsen, conducting maintenance dredging for the Portuguese ports of Setubal, south of Lisbon, and at Leixoes, northern Portugal's largest port.
Not to be outdone by her younger sibling, the first half of the year saw UKD Marlin carrying out maintenance dredging at the Port of Poole, and undertaking remedial works at the Tetney Monobuoy, on the Humber Estuary.
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