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Wilhelmsen Ships Service provides agency support to major port construction project |
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 |
 Wilhelmsen Ships Service has secured a contract to provide ships agency services to Van Oord at Maasvlakte 2, the major port expansion project in Rotterdam.
Up to 14 vessels operated by van Oord will be supporting the project
and Wilhelmsen Ships Service will be managing the formalities of
co-ordinating with port authorities, customs, immigration and other
areas of port liaison. The company will also handle all husbandry
issues such as crew changes, and sludge and waste disposals.
Land reclamation in the North Sea and dredging of the port basins will
expand the existing port and industrial zone on the west side of
Maasvlakte with 1000 hectares new land for port activities and
industry. The contractor of Maasvlakte 2 is PUMA (Project Organisation
for the Expansion of the Maasvlakte), a joint venture between the Dutch
dredging and marine contractors Boskalis and Van Oord.
Van Oord’s operating vessels include up to ten trailing suction hopper
dredgers working on the land reclamation work, which will transport 210
million m3 of sand from the offshore mining location to the new land
along the coast. The joint venture will also deploy cutter suction
dredgers to deepen the port basin to -20 metres NAP (Normal Sea Level
at Amsterdam), so that even the biggest container ships can dock there.
This part of the work will produce 30 million m3 of sand that will also
be reused in the project.
The first phase of the Maasvlakte 2 project will be completed in 2013.
The port will also see the construction of the onshore infrastructure
including quay walls, roads, railways and cycle paths.
“We are very excited about being involved in this major project,”
comments Operations Manager Henk Schuil. “As the world’s leading
maritime service network, Wilhelmsen Ships Service has a strong
capability in providing the range of necessary resources to a project
of this type.”
Source: Wilhelmsen Ships Service
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