Client: McLaughlin and Harvey
Engineer: Royal Haskoning

Stena Line are investing approximately £200m in a new ferry port facility at Loch Ryan, Scotland. An 11.33 hectares site, two miles north of Cairnryan, was chosen to accommodate a mix of travel and freight customers to Belfast Port.

For the construction of the new Stena Line jetty, Concast provided 28 substantial Fender beam units. Each Fender unit weighed as much as 50 tonne, incorporated 7 tonne of tied steel and typically spanned 18 metres. With our factory lifting capacity of over 120 tonne and our 280 tonne crawler crane on site, Concast made light work of these substantial Fender units.

Each Fender unit comprised a reinforced concrete beam with a variety of cores, cast in items and projecting steel to connect with the insitu structure cast on site. A specific concrete mix was developed by Concast for the manufacturing process, ensuring the high strength concrete was resistant to the salt water environment while also ensuring an attractive finish. The complex moulds required were all manufactured in-house by Concast's fabrication team, ensuring a high degree of accuracy and allowing flexibility to make alterations between the various beams as required.

This project is a good example of Concast’s extensive manufacturing and technical capabilities which, when combined with our “can do” attitude, allows us to successfully complete bespoke projects which many of our competitors shy away from.

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