TTS Port Equipment is about to start building a new linkspan for the port of Ystad in the south of Sweden, due for hand-over in March 2009.
New linkspan for Swedish port
TTS Port Equipment is about to start building a new linkspan for the port of Ystad in the south of Sweden, due for hand-over in March 2009.
“Ystad is a significant port in Sweden because of its ferry links to Poland and to the Danish island of Bornholm, which can’t easily be reached directly from Denmark, especially by passenger traffic,” says sales manager Håkan Jönsson. “The port is being developed and extended, and the installation of the new linkspan is one of several important developments within the first phase, stage 1A, of the enterprise known as the Baltic Basin project.”
The linkspan will be 25 meters wide and 14 meters long. Hydraulically operated, it will be able to be locked at levels ranging from seven degrees below horizontal to seven degrees above. Jönsson says that this is crucial for flexibility in any port. “It’s important to be able to accommodate as many different vessels as easily as possible, and this design fulfils that requirement,” he says. “Similar designs can be very useful in other ports. Ten years ago, many ports in Sweden used concrete slopes, but linkspans like this are much more flexible and create more potential for traffic growth.”
Design is under way, and manufacturing is expected to start in early autumn.
For more details, contact:
Håkan Jönsson, sales manager
TTS Port Equipment AB
Tel: +46 31 725 7900
info@tts-port.se
