Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Port)

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife growing as a cruise ship repair centre

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is increasing its role as a prime port for alongside cruise ship repairs. The Canary Island port already established itself as a centre for offshore rig repairs and now offers repairs for cruise ships like 137mtr long Ocean Endeavour(pictured). The expedition ship is spending about one month in the port undergoing various repairs and renovation work before sailing to Saint John's in Canada before undertaking a circumnavigation of Newfoundland, followed by a foray into the St Lawrence and summer itineraries in the Arctic. A Thomson Cruises' ship is scheduled to undertake repair work at berth in Tenerife in November 2017, informs Puertos de Tenerife and Fred Olsen Cruise Lines has used the port for general repair and painting. More than 30 companies specialising in all types of ship repair and maintenance are located in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife which received 290 calls and almost 560,000 passengers last year. http://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/news-headlines/santa-cruz-de-tenerife-growing-as-a-cruise-ship-repair-centre.html

Zamakona Yards delivers Ro-Ro ramp to the Tenerife Container Terminal

This past Wednesday, 15 January, Zamakona Yards carried out the load testing and delivery of the movable ramp for the Roll on-Roll off dock built for the Container Terminal of Tenerife (OHL Group). This innovative elevating structure is the only of its kind in the Canary Islands, permitting a more versatile use of the pier since it will only be employed when vessels with rolling stock arrive (Ro-Ro), permitting the use of the dock for conventional vessels at other times, the company said in its press release. It consist of an elevating ramp, 25 meters wide by 20 meters long, for vessels docking at this point in Tenerife. The ramp, which weighs 170 tons is designed to support rolling cargos of 54 tons and static cargos of 30 tons. The ramp is equipped with an ultimate generation electrical system which permits it to be raised to a vertical position when not being used, leaving the dock free to accommodate conventional vessels. In the raised position, noine of the components protrude more than two meters from the edge. When inclined it will descend to an angle from the dock from 5,20 meters to 2,90 meters above the equinoctial low tide. This elevating Ro-Ro Ramp is the first of this type by the Basque-Canarian Group and the 11th of the total ramps built, having fabricated in the last 22 years conventional ramps for different public administrations including; The Port Authority of Las Palmas, The Port Authority of Bilbao, The Port Authority of Pasajes, Naviera Armas and in this last cas, The OHL Group of Tenerife. Source: Port News