The Matador, owned and operated by Bonn & Mees of Rotterdam, has a lifting capacity of 1,800t. Following closely behind in convoy was the Matador 3 seagoing floating sheerleg crane, again with a supporting tug. It was transported by the Hapo pontoon H-332 and a supporting tug. In November 2019 a steel bridge that will allow trucks to reach the jetty and ro-ro vessels was towed 135 nautical miles from Rotterdam to the site-a process that took 24 hours-and was lifted into place by a floating crane. Cargoes arrive by ro-ro, container, grain and bulk vessels it is also a centre for cruise liners.Ī new port, Tilbury2, is being added, with a roll on–roll off facility that will become the UK’s largest unaccompanied ferry port and the country’s biggest construction processing hub. Tilbury is the major port for London and is also the largest multi-modal port in the South East of the UK. Here Julian Champkin describes just a few of them.Ī large sea-borne barge-to-shore lift took place at Tilbury docks, 22 miles down the Thames from London. Some were large, some were small, some were complex some were just of interesting or unusual loads. Many lifting projects came to fruition in the UK in the past 12 months.
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