Boskalis Reclaimes Land for New Port Area in Dover’s Western Docks

Times change. And with time, sometimes the destination of a particular location on the globe also changes. One of those locations is the Western Docks at the Port of Dover, in the south-east of the United Kingdom.

Their trailing suction hopper dredger Gateway and spray pontoon Steenbok reclaimed new land in the port area, which in the near future will be used for new developments and customs activities for outbound and inbound (freight) traffic between the United Kingdom and the European mainland.

Boskalis Westminster worked on this second phase of the Western Docks Revival-program project in a joint venture with McLaughlin & Harvey Ltd. Over the last two months their colleagues constructed a closure bund at Wick channel and Wellington dock and decommissioned the old yacht moorings.

Initially the reclaimed material was sprayed in thin layers using the Steenbok to cap the existing seabed material, thereafter the team moved onto a land-based reclamation. In the end we deposited over 650,000m³  of material using our trailer suction hopper dredger Gateway.

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