Seawork meeting leads to Seawork signing
Marine Design Ltd MD Drystan Jones and Martyn Boyers celebrate another pontoon order at Seawork 2011.
Falmouth UK based Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group, secured a further order for its DockMaster concrete pontoons at Seawork 2011.
Client Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises will use the pontoon to develop crew transfer facilities for power generation company Centrica, which will build the Race Bank Offshore Wind farm 17.4 miles from the Lincolnshire coast at Chapel St Leonards. Up to 206 turbines will be installed in water depths ranging from 4m to 22m, as well as up to three offshore substations.
Marine Designs Ltd and Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises met at Seawork two years ago and this DockMaster will be the third pontoon resulting from that meeting when it is installed next month.
The first is 30m long, sits parallel to the quayside and will accommodate three workboats. The second, another crew transfer pontoon, will accommodate four vessels, while the new pontoon will measure 53m long and extend perpendicular to the dock, accommodating up to six wind farm support vessels.
This is Marine Design Ltd’s ninth contract with the marine industry for operations and maintenance pontoons, with installations also in place at Barrow in Furness, Lowestoft, and Ramsgate. The company focuses on innovative designs for commercial berthing for ferries and tugs as well as for wind farm support vessels.
At Barrow in Furness the company has completed four successful projects totalling over 200m of 5m wide pontoons. Marine Designs Ltd has recently won a contract to build a fully serviced pontoon with a pontoon mounted crane, fast fuel systems, and drive-on pontoons for the London Array wind farm out of Ramsgate. There are also orders for a 100m pontoon to moor 1,000 ton tugs on the River Tyne and to build a first floating ferry jetty on Lake Windermere.
The company’s pontoons, brows and bridge access systems are manufactured using environmentally friendly materials in dependably short build times. Road transportable designs allows enable the pontoons to be built under cover at the quayside factory in Cornwall before being transported to anywhere in the UK.
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