The Port of Laem Chabang, on the Gulf of Thailand, is the largest and busiest port in Thailand, before Bangkok port, and the 4th busiest port in South-East Asia. It is located in the Chonburi proving, a couple of hours drive from Bangkok and Dextra main production facility.

Dextra has been involved with contractor Italian-Thai for the engineering and supply of the steel structures behind Laem Chabang new pier.

Dextra engineered and supplied its Marine Tie Rods systems in Grade 700, the highest in our range.

Higher grades offer a improved performance/steel ratio compared to grades 355/510 and 500/660, allowing to pick smaller diameter bar which ultimately provide steel savings and facilitate logistics and installation efforts.

The rods making the long tendons were anchored into concrete piles and spliced with turnbuckles and couplers.

A total of 206 tons of marine tie rods have been supplied for this Laem Chabang expansion project.

Mubarak Al-Kabeer is a large seaport, located on the island of Bubiyan, East of Kuwait, opened towards the Persian Gulf.

Dextra has been involved on the Stage 2 of the first phase of the construction, between 2011 and 2012, together with Hyundai E&C, the contractor on this project.

For this large project, Dextra supplied marine tie rods to anchor the quay of the offloading facility.

The system provided were taking advantage of Dextra large diameters M134 tie rods, anchored into the combiwalls thanks to Ball Cages (± 10° rotation capability in all directions) and Captive Nuts (±5° rotation capability in all directions.

To accommodate the long tendons, provide adjustment length and offer additional flexibility during installation, turnbuckles and Hinge Couplers (± 90° vertical adjustment) were also added in line where required.

In 1988, International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) won the 25+25 year concession to operate the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), one of the three terminals in the Port of Manila.

Since then, MICT has increased its annual capacity five-fold, becoming the largest and most modern container terminal in the Philippines.

It is now considered at par with the best terminals in the world with its guaranteed efficiencies and modernized operational and administrative systems.

MICT Berth 7 is the expansion project of the existing Berth 6 that will help alleviate congestion at off-dock container yards.

Dextra was involved in the project by supplying 110 sets of Marine Tie Bars, grade 700, bar diameter 85mm as an anchorage to tie back the main concrete wall casted on top of tubular steel piles to a sheet pile anchor wall connected with crane rail beam.

Dextra offers its marine tie bar solution in 3 steel grades, up to a yield stress of 700Mpa and 22 thread diameters, allowing a close match to the performance requirements and an economic use of material.

The Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) is is located on the northern shores of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the Southern part of Jordan. It is the only container terminal in Jordan, and the second largest on the Red Sea in term of capcity.

Dextra participated to the creation of ACTs new berth between 2011 and 2012, as part of a project which aimed to increase the terminal capacity to 1.2 million TEUs. The expansion started operations in 2013.

For this project, Dextra has been supplying its Marine Tie Rods solutions to BAM International. Rods were supplied in Grade 500 in two different sizes: M105 and M125.

The long tendons were connected to the combi-wall on one side with a Dextra Ball Cage, allowing multidirectional angle of ±10 degrees, which greatly eases the installation process when at the same time addressing possible soil settlement.

On the opposite wall, tie rods were anchored using swivel plate and nuts, set up over waling beams. Dextra swivel accessories also allow a rotation angle of ±7 degrees in every direction.

For more information about our marine solutions in the Middle East, please consult our Dubai office

The Port of Douala is a large sea port opened to the Atlantic Ocean, part of the Wouri department in Cameroon. It is the main port of Cameroon and the busiest Central-African Port, with agreements that allow it to serve the countries of Tchad and Central African Republic, which do not benefit from a direct access to sea.

To support the ambitious development plan of Port Autonome de Douala, Dextra has been working with contractor BESIX for the engineering and supply of the steel structures support Douala Pier 51, a 165m-long quay wall.

Dextra engineered and supplied in 2015 systems of Marine Tie Rods in diameter M100 and in Grade 700, the highest in our range. Higher grades offer an improved performance/steel ratio compared to grades 355/510 and 500/660, allowing to pick smaller diameter bar which ultimately provide steel savings and facilitate logistics and installation efforts.

The rods making the long tendons, up to XXX meters long, were spliced with turnbuckles and couplers. The rods were anchored into the combi walls thanks to the use of Captive Nuts accessories, which allow a multidirectional rotation angle of 5° in order to ease the installation.

Paradip International Cargo Terminal (PICT) is a multipurpose berth to handle clean cargo at Paradip Port, located on the eastern coast of India, between Kolkata and Visakhapatnam.

The depth of the berth is 17.1 meters with a length of 450 meters, which will facilitate handling of Cape-sized vessels up to 125,000 DWT.

The multi-purpose berth will be utilized for handling containerized traffic, including non-hazardous and dust-free cargoes such as iron and steel products, finished fertilizer, food grains and sugar.

Dextra supplied approximately 370 tons of Marine Tie Bar systems, sizes M105 and M76, grade 500, along with accessories: couplers, turnbuckles, swivel plates, swivel nuts, swivel plates with angle seating.

The tie bar systems were used to connect with concrete diaphragm walls at both ends, in order to retain the berth structure.

With the new berth becoming operational in 2018, the port is having a total of 18 berths: 13 cargo berths, 2 oil tanker berths and 3 crude oil tankers and single-point mooring for handling of crude oil tankers.

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