Project Name:

Sheerness Medway Traffic Model

Country:

United Kingdom

Client:

Year:

The Isle of Grain Terminal, located on the River Medway has an Existing LNG receiving facility which was recently developed to accommodate approximately 53 LNG Vessels per year. A planning application has been submitted for the next phase of development of the Grain LNG receiving facility which would increase the number of LNG vessels to 253 arrivals per year on two berths from 2010.

The objective of this Shipping Impact Study was to assess and evaluate the effect of this increase in number of LNG vessels on other traffic movements on the Medway. By simulating the increase in shipping movements, any navigational or channel capacity issues can be identified and their impacts analysed for the benefit of all River users.

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Project Name:

Bristol Navigation Traffic Model

Country:

United Kingdom

Client:

Bristol Port Authority

Year:

2007

The Bristol Port Company (BPC) is proposing to construct a Deep Sea Container Terminal at Avonmouth Docks located just upstream of the entry to Bristol Docks in the Severn Estuary. BPC wishes to alay the concerns of neighbouring port authorities in respect of the increased traffic impacting on their own operations

Royal Haskoning completed a shipping traffic study which assessed the impact of the proposed Deep Sea Container Terminal development and its related extra shipping may have on both BPC’s own operation and the operations of the neighbouring ports and to recommend mitigation measures.

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Project Name:

Bran Sands Traffic Model

Country:

United Kingdom

Client:

PD Ports

Year:

2008 

Royal Haskoning were appointed to complete a Shipping Impact Study to assess and evaluate the impact of additional shipping movements generated by the proposed development of the Bran Sands Site on the safe navigation of shipping to and from other existing and planned berths on the River.

By simulating the increase in ship movements, any navigational or channel capacity issues can be identified and their impacts analysed for the benefit of both PD Ports and other River users.

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Project Name:

Country:

Saudi Arabia

Client:

Year:

2008

Royal Haskoning were appointed to complete a Shipping Impact Study to assess and evaluate the impact of a one way lock system on a new 50km canal network.

The Martram Marine traffic program was used to simulate delays to expected vessel volumes and to check whether excess queuing occurred at peak times. Output from the simulations was used to validate the proposed lock opening and closing times.

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Project Name:

UniThai Traffic Model

Country:

Thailand

Client:

Unithai Shipyard and Engineering Co. Ltd

Year:

2008

Unithai Shipyard and Engineering Co. Ltd have a 30 year lease from Laem Chabang Port for an area of the Port to carry out ship repairs and other engineering works principally to the maritime and oil industry sectors. As a part of the lease there is a requirement to construct a dry dock for which designs have been undertaken and are currently under review in the light of current and future shipping needs.

As part of the review a concern was raised as to the impact the dry dock and its operation would have on other marine traffic. To investigate this Unithai employed Royal Haskoning to model the port along with its present and predicted shipping movements and to analyse any impact the presence of a dry dock would have. Using data gained from LCP by Unithai Royal Haskoning used computer models to predict the delays the operation of the dry dock could have on shipping.

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Project Name:

Yarimca Shipma Model

Country:

Turkey

Client:

DP World

Year:

2007

Royal Haskoning liaised with DPW on developing the operational lay-out for a 1.5m TEU terminal. This included the selection of equipment, terminal lay-outs, buildings and facility requirements.

As part of the overall project, the navigational channels were assessed in the SHIPMA navigational simulation to check the proposed locations of turning circles and breakwaters. The vessel approaches were then modelled to take account of currents and different wind speeds to make sure the approaches were safe and to determine the level of tug assistance required. Visual output from Shipma was used to illustrate the approaches in presentations to the client.

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Project Name:

Northern Gateway Traffic Model

Country:

United Kingdom

Client:

PD Ports

Year:

2007

PD Teesport is proposing to construct a deep sea container terminal on the south side of the River Tees adjacent to Tees Dock.  The new facility will include a new 1000m long deep water quay.

Royal Haskoning completed a shipping traffic study assessing the impact of the proposed Deep Sea Container Terminal development and its related shipping on the existing ship movements on the river. The assessment was carried out using the Royal Haskoning in-house VTS module of POSPORT, Marine Traffic Model.

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Project Name:

Poole Marine Traffic Model

Country:

United Kingdom

Client:

Borough of Poole Council

Year:

2005

Royal Haskoning were commissioned to assess the potential impacts on navigational safety related to proposed development of a second road traffic lift bridge across Poole Harbour.

Utilising the Marine Traffic Modelling module of POSPORT, simulation and visualisation was undertaken to assess a range of options for the operation of two bridges across the waterway. The output of the study was used to visually portray the potential development impacts and aid the planning decisions.

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Project Name:

Hong Kong Shipma Simulation Study

Country:

Hong Kong

Client:

Royal Haskoning

Year:

1996

Royal Haskoning carried out a large number of ship handling and navigational studies, generally as part of overall port development planning. These studies have included both large bulk carriers in excess of 150,000 dwt, and small general cargo vessels in relatively constricted channels.

The firm has a computer model SHIPMA which is used to plot the track of vessels as they navigate channels and approach the berth. This model has a library of some 70 vessel types, and other ship's characteristics can be added as required. The model takes account of, shallow water; wind; variable current; ship interaction; tugs;
anchor forces; bow and stern thrusters; bank effects.

This ship simulation is coupled with experts having sound practical knowledge from many years of experience at sea.

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Project Name:

Hong Kong Port Traffic Modelling

Country:

Hong Kong

Client:

HK Government Civil Engineering Dept

Year:

1994

As part of the initial planning stages of the design of Hong Kong's new international port to be located on Lantau Island, a series of detailed marine traffic models were established to evaluate different port layout options.

Whilst the final decision on the port design will be based on a large range of economic, environmental and practical issues, it was recognised that marine traffic safety is of paramount importance. Data was collected for forecast vessel movement, type and size for 10 and 15 year scenarios. A model was designed based on this information which simulated the work of a vessel traffic controller. The operator was allowed to hold and release ships entering the port vicinity and the number of incidents and average hold length over a 24 hour period was recorded. This effectively demonstrated the difficulties that future traffic volumes could pose for certain layout designs and enabled the Government to select the preferred layout for further investigation and design .