Innovation born out of necessity.
The original design remit for the JST integrated floating pier system - was to meet one of the major challenges facing owners, harvesting companies and investors in involved in realising timber assets in some of the UK’s more remote woodland properties.
This is primarily the issue of diminishing returns and viability as both the supply chain costs and constraints of getting the timber to market increase.Moving timber and other resources by water can help address this and is also consistent with key strategy outcomes of the Scottish Executive Freight Action Plan for Scotland, Scotland’s National Transport Strategy and the Scottish Forestry Strategy.
JST’s floating piers are uniquely engineered assets of marine equipment that provide a key interface between shoreline and a suitable depth of water, to facilitate a stable ‘constant freeboard’ height and secure floating platform. This allows for vessels of up to 3000 tonne capacity to moor safely alongside and be efficiently loaded with goods for onward transportation.
When paired with low ground pressure haulage to feed the pier, the system provides a minimal operational/environmental footprint and an overall low impact solution to the transfer in or out of materials and equipment.
Where site and shore conditions allow, the self discharging pier and linkspan can be set up and become operational in a 12hr shift, though careful operational pre planning and infrastructure is required to achieve this.
JST can manage this lead in process and a comprehensive range of surveys including specialist bathymetric, topographical, and ‘EPS’ wildlife can be provided.
For more information contact
Neil Stoddart Operations and Marketing Director
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