Queen’s Wharf Rebuild Completed
The 4m reconstruction of the Queens Wharf in Falmouth has been completed, enabling ship repair and port services specialist A&P Falmouth to resume normal operations. The original structure was destroyed by a fire in January.
Vagverket Farjerederiet has recently put its most modern car ferry into service. The Venus is 86.2m LOA, displaces 840 tonnes and has a total load capacity of 340 tonnes. Built in Finland by Uudenkaupungin Tyovene OY, it will operate between Ljustero and Ostana in Stockholm. ‘We want to be leaders in the environmental field, said the ferry company’s technical director Mikael von Zweigbergk.
One of the last parts to be completed was a final section of concrete deck that was poured onto the pre-cast slabs installed by Plymouth based civil engineers long and 18m wide, the new wharf is much the same size as the old but will provide better facilities and is designed so that Seastructures. Seastructures had earlier demolished the remains of the old wharf and driven 120 supporting steel piles. At 195m the berths can be dredged to 9m alongside at a later date. The works, which were project managed by Gleeds, saw Seastructures meet the target date for completion at the end of a smooth running operation.
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