diebautechnik - ThyssenKrupp Bautechnik
diebautechnik - ThyssenKrupp Bautechnik
diebautechnik - ThyssenKrupp Bautechnik
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6<br />
Where containers meet world records<br />
The Short Sea Terminal in Bremerhaven is being extended<br />
Bremerhaven is booming: this where the real leviathans can tie up.<br />
Not only containers are stacking up at the<br />
Bremerhaven Container Terminal (CT), but also<br />
records. With a storage area of two million<br />
square metres, it has been entered in the<br />
Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest<br />
connected container terminal. It was here in<br />
September 2006 at Bremerhaven that the<br />
world's largest container ship, the "Emma<br />
Maersk", moored up at the longest riverside<br />
mooring in the world. After the planned extension,<br />
the storage area will even amount to three million<br />
square metres, and the extension of the CT<br />
Bremerhaven is Germany's largest maritime<br />
building site. The Bremen port operators are not<br />
just investing in Germany's largest port project -<br />
the CT4 riverside quay. There are building<br />
projects underway throughout the harbour. In<br />
building the Short Sea Terminal, bremenports is<br />
continuing to drive the modernisation of its quay<br />
facilities and inner harbour areas forwards. In the<br />
south west area of the turning basin for the<br />
international port, bremenports is preparing a<br />
short sea mooring for container handling and for<br />
this purpose, a 210 metre long quay is being<br />
driven. Apart from the extension of the storage<br />
spaces, deepening of the harbour basin by<br />
approx. 5.50 metres is also planned, in which<br />
<strong>ThyssenKrupp</strong> GfT <strong>Bautechnik</strong> specialists were<br />
also involved.<br />
And this was with success, since the customer<br />
bremenports was able to save 15 percent on<br />
material at the short sea terminal, while also<br />
managing to gain a substantial time advantage<br />
in the processing of the project, thanks to the<br />
innovative suggestions and ideas provided by the<br />
<strong>ThyssenKrupp</strong> team.<br />
The tender was for PSp 900 and PSp 800 beam<br />
piles, in combination with the PZi 612 intermediate<br />
pile. The alternative worked out by <strong>ThyssenKrupp</strong><br />
GfT <strong>Bautechnik</strong> with the newly-developed PZi 675<br />
intermediate pile and PSp 800 beam pile in special<br />
steel provided the decisive benefit, enabling less<br />
pile driving elements to be driven into the ground<br />
thanks to the wider system measurements, thus<br />
saving time and materials. The equivalence<br />
documentation required, such as stress detection<br />
for the sheet pile interlocks, was supervised by the<br />
technical offices at <strong>ThyssenKrupp</strong> <strong>Bautechnik</strong> and<br />
released to the full satisfaction of the testing<br />
engineers.<br />
High ramming performance<br />
Apart from being the system provider and supplying<br />
the sheet piling, <strong>ThyssenKrupp</strong> <strong>Bautechnik</strong> also<br />
provided the driving technology and equipment. The<br />
most recent Mueller vibration technology was used,<br />
which could provide rapid, simple and precise driving<br />
of the beam piles (up to 29 metres in length) and<br />
intermediate piles (up to 23 metres long). Because<br />
the well-trained site team had such a high ramming<br />
output with the machines supplied by <strong>ThyssenKrupp</strong><br />
<strong>Bautechnik</strong>, backup supplies had to be delivered by<br />
three ships rather than just one, as originally<br />
intended. The beam piles measuring up to 29 metres<br />
in length were delivered by <strong>ThyssenKrupp</strong> on ships