Berth dredging

For protection of sheet-steel piling, the anodes are normally mounted within the re-entrants of the piles to prevent mechanical damage by berthing ships, dredging, etc. (Fig. 10.30). 

Organisational risk Lack of IT system maintenance Lack of dredging maintenance Labour unrest Dispute with regulatory bodies Berth congestion... 

With such massive movements, the availability of hopper cars to deliver to the port became an increasing issue. In 1976, Sultran was formed by the sulfur producers to operate the rail fleet, manage the bulk sulfur movements by hopper cars to Vancouver, and to negotiate rail rates. In 1981, Sultran added 680 rail cars to their fleet to expedite the shipments of sulfur to Vancouver and purchased PCT in Port Moody from Cominco. Pacific Coast Terminal (PCT) is one of two sulfur terminals in the Vancouver area the other is Vancouver Wharves (purchased by BC Rail in 1993 taken over by Kinder Morgan in 2007). PCT dredged their berth to accommodate Panamax-sized vessels in 1995. 

The ground investigation indicates that the material dredged from the approach channel and berth pocket used for the core will be predominantly a uniform, fine grained sand. 

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