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Liverpool’s lock gate refurbishment completed
The second and final phase of the Port of Liverpool’s £4.3M investment in the refurbishment of the port’s lock system has been successfully completed.
The complex engineering operation, over 24 months in the planning, saw the west inner gate at the port’s Gladstone Lock replaced.
Lessons learned during a similar operation in May involving the lock’s east inner gate resulted in a vastly-reduced 36 hour outage and careful timing of the outage ensured that all scheduled regular shipping arrivals were able to access the dock system via Gladstone Lock without disruption.
The work saw the giant west inner gate – 16m in height and weighing 400t – removed and replaced with a fully refurbished gate.
The operation started Friday 27 July at 7am and was completed the following day, with the first vessel able to transit the lock at 6pm.
“The outage is the culmination of many months of planning and we’re delighted that this major feat of engineering was completed in very good time by our contractors BAM Nuttall,” said David Huck, head of port operations for Peel Ports Mersey. “Our customers were alerted well in advance of the outage and with good planning all of our regular calls were able to be accommodated as normal, which was very important.”
This latest operation at Gladstone Lock takes overall investment in this area of Liverpool’s infrastructure to £20M.
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