A HUGE loading crane at decommissioned Tilbury Power Station has been taken away – the first of two to be removed from the site. Heaving loading ship HHL Tokyo was alongside Tilbury Power Station last week for the difficult of job of moving the crane from the jetty to the ship. Slowly and skilfully the unloading crane was moved on …
Enderby House campaigners discuss future of historic site
Campaigners have laid out potential ideas “to inspire enthusiasm and support” for possibilities at the historic Enderby Wharf site in east Greenwich which includes Enderby House. Guests at the Enderby Group’s meeting this morning were given a guided walk followed by a presentation about the site where developer Barratt Homes are building hundreds of new flats and a cruise terminal has …
Ship Pics: Atlantic Enterprise
ATLANTIC ENTERPRISE recently arrived at Tilbury docks for an upgrade. Formerly known as GECO TRITON, the ship is the Atlantic Marine’s new offshore mothership. According to 4coffshore.com, she is having the DP2 system installed, which is a dynamic positioning system to allow a vessel to maintain a static position using propellors and thrusters. The 6414t vessel was built in 1970 and is …
Man dies after people discovered in shipping container at Tilbury
ONE man died and dozens more were taken to nearby hospitals after they were discovered in a shipping container last weekend. The container had come across the English Channel from Zeebrugge on board the roro ferry Norstream, arriving at Tilbury at about 6 am. Norstream and her sister vessel Norsky are owned by P&O and make regular crossings between the …
New bitumen terminal receives first visitor
A NEW bitumen terminal in Kent received its first visitor on Saturday morning. Dartford-based FM Conway have developed the new terminal on the old Imperial Wharf site in Gravesend. Work to take down the distinctive old cranes at the site got under way in October last year. Tanker Theodora arrived there on Saturday morning – the first ship to moor there for …