Shipping news Port expansion at Darwin

Press, 14 April 1982, Page 26

Shipping news Port expansion at Darwin

Roll-on vessels should be able to use the Port of Darwin with ease by the end of this year. The Northern Territory Port Authority has let a $4 million contract to a Glasgow firm. Marine Development, to design and build a full-scale roll-on terminal. Part of the contract is the instalment of a "linkspan’’ semibuovant ship-to-shore bridge, planned to be ready by the end of the year. This linkspan will be 77m long, to cope with a tidal range of 7.5 m. Its seaward end will rest on a 30m by 42m pontoon which can be extended or retracted. When the new terminal .is completed. Darwin will be transformed from a secondary port into a mam staging point for roll-on traffic between Australia and Asia. Special arrangements will be made lo protect the new terminal from cyclones. These include heavy cyclone moorings in a nearby creek which is sheltered from bad weather.

ARRIVALS Coastal Trader (7 a.mi, 2500, Auckland (S.C.N.Z.). DEPARTURES Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Holmdale, Chathams, tomorrow. Amokura, Marsden Point, tomorrow. Altis, Nap, tomorrow. Wild Gannet, sea, April 16. Coastal Trader, Auck, April 19. Kangarou. Wgtn, April 23. Summit Venture. Wgtn. April 23. Ngapara,. Taur, April 27. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Coastal Trader, Auck, today (11 a.m.). Waitaki. Sydney, today.

Ngahere. Bluff, tomorrow. Cawa. Dndn. tomorrow. Amokura. sea. April 16.7 Masirah, U.S.S.R., -April-17. Coastal Trader, Dndn, April 19. Coastal Trader, Auck,'April 21. VESSELS IN PORT Cawa. Cashin Quay No. 2. Coastal Trader. Gladstone Pier. Union Nelson, Gladstone Pier. Ngahere, No, 2 East. Masirah, No. 7 East. Waitaki, No. 7 West.