Ravuvu Temporary Wharf – a wharf for sea vessels located in Ravuvu Industrial Park, 20km west of Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea
In 2012 we obtainted a contract from Nawae Construction Ltd, a company from Papua New Guinea, that was a contractor on site, to prepare a design of a temporary wharf for docking ships. The wharf was erected near the capital city of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, in the (so called) Ravuvu Industrial Park, which was created in order to release some sea and air traffic from the already crowded, existing harbour and airport. One of the steps to achieve this goal was to build reclamation areas, “clawed away” from the sea – man-made peninsulas, fenced with steel sheet pile walls, driven deep into the seabed. The temporary wharf consists of rows of precast concrete girders, hanging far into the open sea, connected together with a set of transverse beams, the bottom slab and precast retaining wall panels anchored with steel ropes. At the edge of the structure on cantilevers, there is a steel frame to support rubber fenders made of truck tyres. The total length of the wharf is 20,3m, the width is 17,4m. The span of cantilevers over the precast retaining wall panels is 5m.
Interesting facts
Due to low and high tides, we needed to include different sea levels and different levels for the installation of fenders. This difference is more than 2 metres
The design was prepared according to Australian Standards, which are also valid in Papua New Guinea. It was required by the Client.
The satellite picture of the constructed wharf is visible in GoogleMaps coordinates -9.442701,147.092686
< Our designs
