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New control centre boosts Humber safety
20 Nov 2008
The Port of Immingham's Marine Control Centre is vital to marine safety on the Humber. While ABP's vessel traffic services facility at Spurn Point is responsible for the safe passage of vessels on the Humber as a whole (some 35,600 vessel movements each year), the Marine Control Centre at Immingham has its own, equally important responsibilities.
Immingham's Marine Control Centre regulates all shipping movements within the limits of Immingham's harbour, which extends 200 yards from the face of the port's river jetties and therefore overlaps with the deepwater channel of the main estuary.
As the port's 21 river berths and enclosed dock generate around 35 shipping movements per day, coinciding with some 52 vessels simultaneously navigating the deepwater channel en route to and from the other Humber ports, as well as those on the River Trent and River Ouse, the constant and accurate regulation of these ships' passage is necessary to reduce the risk of a marine incident.
Read the full story in the December issue of Maritime Journal.
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