DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

River Tees dredged to allow carrier scrapping

18 years ago

Another milestone has been reached to allow a French aircraft carrier to be scrapped on Teesside in the UK.

The Port Authority has now dredged the Tees, which means the carrier,

Clemenceau

, can come to Able UK’s Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre (TERRC) facility at Seaton Port.Able UK chairman and chief executive Peter Stephenson said, ‘The completion of the dredging means that we and the port authorities are happy that it is now safe to bring the vessel into the Tees to TERRC.’