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NEWS FROM THE NAVIGATION COMMUNITY
BRAZIL
Offshore Salt
Transhipment Terminal
The joint venture CCQ (Constremac/
Carioca/Queiroz Galvão) is concluding
the expansion of the Terminal
comprising the storage area and the
barge-unloading wharf. The terminal
is located 14 km offshore Areia
Branca – Brazil. CODERN – Cia.
Docas do Estado do Rio Grande
do Norte is a state owned company
which runs the Salt Terminal operation
since 1975. The expansion of
the storage area has been design
using steel sheet piles cells and the
barge’s wharf using a steel deck
on pile structure and steel jackets.
The construction activities were performed
in open sea where the height
of significant wave reaches 5.90 m.
EXE Engenharia, Curitiba, Brazil,
has developed the detailed design
and the construction methodology.
Areia Branca offshore salt terminal –
Island and barge’s wharf during construction – Aerial view
Areia Branca offshore salt terminal – General view
Leandro Sabino
André Marques
EXE Engenharia, Curitiba, Brazil
PIANC E-Magazine n° 144, November/novembre 2011
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