New gangway and mooring system for Belfast

TTS, with work already in progress for a gangway at Stena’s Loch Ryan terminal, is expected to deliver the equipment later this year.

Over the next few months the company will design and build the elevated passenger walkway that will be used to connect the berthed vessel to the terminal building. The walkway will consist of four fixed sections together with an elevating gangway and hoisting platform, operated by hydraulic cylinders.

The contract also includes the design, supply, fabrication, surface treatment, testing and full installation of a semi-automatic mooring system for the Belfast quay, which is scheduled to be delivered at the same time as the gangway.

The design includes one rig with hydraulic cylinder, control cylinders for the mooring rods, a hydraulic power pack, plus a platform and stairs. Offering a cost effective and reduced risk alternative to traditional methods of mooring with ropes, the semi-automatic system is designed to buffer the transverse forces from dedicated vessels, each of which is due to be fitted with compatible bollards.

TTS has also recently received a major Australian contract to supply a specialised linkspan serving a liquefied natural gas plant off the country’s east coast. The order for the linkspan is with civil contractor Golding for the development of a construction dock on Curtis Island outside Gladstone, north of Brisbane.