Western Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine has delivered the base pontoon of the world’s most technologically advanced floating dry dock to the Australian Marine Complex at Henderson, south of Perth.
The dock’s 4,400-tonne steel base was delivered after Strategic Marine’s Vietnamese facility at Dong Xuyen Industrial Zone completed construction of the 99 metre long and 53 metre wide steel structure, launching it on November 18. The dock base was then lifted aboard the Dockwise submersible vessel ‘Teal’ for its 16-day journey to the AMC’s Common User (CUP) facility at Henderson, with the Teal submerging to float off the structure before it was towed into the facility by three tugs. Once the US$40.8 milloin dock is handed over to the AMC next July, it will achieve a global “first” with a newly developed digital memory to give it a fully automated capability. Developed by Californian company IDAC West, this smart technology will allow the AMC to bid for a range of major construction and repair projects across the marine, defence and resources sectors, which is expected to inject billions of dollars into the WA economy over the next 25 years.
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