GPS Marine has purchased a further barge to support operations in the river Thames, Barge 2801. The new barge is a 1999 built one hatch one hold barge of 2830 tons cargo deadweight and is classed until 2020. When the barge enters service in November or early December she will be by far the largest [...]
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The tug GPS Cervia (previously the Cory Environmental tug “Recruit”) has completed a thorough refit prior to entering service with GPS Marine’s River and Light Towage fleet. As part of the refit the tug has been provided with a black water tank and sewage system compliant with the recently introduced “Thames freight standard”. She is [...]
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GPS Marine’s Commercial Diving & Underwater Engineering Division (GPSM DiveCo) have been contracted to install a number of pipes as part of the £190m upgrade at Becton Sewage Works. Becton Sewage Works is Europe’s largest Sewage Works and will be able to deal with 60 per cent more sewage during storms once the upgrade is [...]
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GPS Marine’s Civil Engineering & Construction department has been busy undertaking works in connection with the Berth 9 Quay Extension in the Port of Felixstowe. The crane barge GPS Boxer is on site crewed by GPS Marine staff and she is working on the installation of 160m of sheet piles as part of the quay [...]
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2014 has been a busy year for our fleet of tugs and barges based on the River Thames and as we enter the last 3 months of the year we don’t expect that to change with Crossrail related tunnel ring segment and muck away projects continuing into 2015 and levels of business from long term [...]
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GPS Marine’s 22m Multicat, GPS Battler, has finished assisting dredging works in Mahon, Spain. On completion of the project in Mahon the GPS Battler towed the dredger Von Rocks to Marin, Pontevedra, Spain, where upon the arrival of the GPS Marine split barges John and Paul the GPS Battler and both split barges have been [...]
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GPS Marine has deployed the crane barge GPS Contractor to install scour protection around the abutments of the piers of the CTRL flyover across the River Medway at Borstal. The stone was sourced locally and loaded into a GPS Marine hopper barge at Chatham before being delivered to the work site at Borstal.
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The GPS Avenger has towed the dredger Red Fighter from Tallinn in Estonia to the Moroccan port of Tarfaya which is close to Morocco’s border with Mauretania. Immediately after delivering the dredger in Tarfaya the GPS Avenger proceeded to Mahon to collect the split barges GPS John and GPS Paul to the dredging project in [...]
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The bunker barge Conveyor continues to supply gas oil to vessels visiting the Thames and Medway as well as many of the vessels operating on the rivers in intra port trade. Amazingly the Conveyor is the largest bunker barge that is permanently based in the Thames/ Medway area and her withdrawal for a few days [...]