TMS shares upcoming project plans

The company, based in Devon, UK, offers a range of marine and civil engineering services from marine construction and diving services through to piling work and vessels hire, the latter managed by its sister company, Marine Plant Hire.

TMS was honoured with the Maritime Civils Best Project Award at this year’s Seawork held in Southampton for its Nuneham Viaduct Emergency Works project, which the judges said ‘had it all!’

Work shows no sign of slowing despite the looming general election which has temporarily halted the awarding of the big, multi-million government contracts.

“It’s continual,” said Richard Taffs, QHSE & Diving Manager at TMS. “We’re all over the UK at the moment. It could be marine, it could be rail, it could be diving, piling work, slipway works. Anything above, on or under the water.”

“But the public sector contracts are on hold until after the election,” he added.

As well as the Nuneham Viaduct work, recent successes include projects to combat coastal erosion on the Isles of Scilly which entailed the transportation of 26,000 tonnes of rock armour from Falmouth. Sea defences have also been bolstered in Exmouth in Devon. TMS has also completed diving projects to install a new outfall for South West Water involving the use of a jack-up barge and installed lock gates to protect against flooding in Sutton Harbour in Plymouth.

“For a lot of our jobs we provide the whole package,” said Taffs. “We’ll have the barges, the boats, the cranes, the lifting equipment. We’ll have the dive team. We’ll do the concreting works, the piling works, we can provide a complete marina or harbour makeover.”

Ongoing contracts include a large quayside refurbishment for ABP at the ferry terminal in Plymouth.

Unable to disclose too much detail, Taffs did share with Maritime Journal a new scour protection project in Aberdeen plus upcoming work for the UK government in Devonport.