GPS 1605 arrived from her builders CMS Werf of Leeuwarden in Friesland on Tuesday 6th June at 03:40 and started to load her first cargo from the Northern Line Extension site the next morning, 7th June, at 08:00. The picture shows the barge fully laden with her first cargo of 1760 tons of spoil for discharge at East Tilbury.
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