Ro-Ro ramp for Tenerife Container Terminal

This innovative elevating structure is the only of its kind in the Canary Islands, permitting a more versatile use of the pier since it will only be employed when Ro-Ro vessels arrive, permitting the use of the dock for conventional vessels at other times.

It consists of an elevating ramp, 25m wide by 20m long, for vessels docking at this point in Tenerife. The ramp, which weighs 170 tonnes is designed to support rolling cargos of 54 tons and static cargos of 30 tons.

The ramp is equipped with an ultimate generation electrical system which permits it to be raised to a vertical position when not being used, leaving the dock free to accommodate conventional vessels.

In the raised position, none of the components protrude more than two meters from the edge. When inclined, it will lower to an angle from the dock from 5.2m to 2.9m above the equinoctial low tide.

This elevating Ro-Ro ramp is the first of this type by the Basque-Canarian Group and the 11th of the total ramps built, having fabricated over the last 22 years conventional ramps for different public administrations including the Port Authority of Las Palmas, the Port Authority of Bilbao, the Port Authority of Pasajes, Naviera Armas and, in this last case, the OHL Group of Tenerife.

Zamakona Yards is at the forefront of Spanish shipyards in the construction and installation of Ro-Ro ramps in the Canary Islands and the Iberian Peninsula.