GPS Marine has concluded a joint venture agreement with EAPL (European Active Projects Ltd), for the joint operation of the slipway facility at Ramsgate in Kent. Given the shortage of slipway facilities in the Thames and Medway, the slipway at Ramsgate is the closest facility to the Thames which suitable for docking GPS Marine’s vessels [...]
Images from GPS Avenger Sea trials on the 24th July 2017
The 2013 built Shoalbuster 2709 GPS Avenger is being reactivated following a 21 month layup at Upnor. During July the vessel was towed to Rotterdam to be drydocked and bring all outstanding surveys up to date at the shipyard of Scheepswerf Grevenstein bv and at Dockside Ship Facilities BV. In effect this has amounted to [...]
GPS Marine Contractors Ltd took a major step towards full voluntary ISM compliance when on 27th June 2017 the Company passed its full term ISM office audit. The audit, carried out by two MCA surveyors identified only 3 NCN’s and made 2 observations, an outcome which was considered to be most satisfactory by the operations team at [...]
GPS 1603 lying at Bolnes, ready to return to the Thames after reclassification and conversion into a drywell hopper
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 [...]
In order to compliment the fleet of 8 new drywell hoppers 4 conversions of existing barges in the fleet are also underway. The standard Eurobarge 2801 has already been shortened to 56 metres and has been converted to become a 1000 cubic metre capacity drywell hopper; as has the exisisting 56m 1900 series barge 1903. [...]
The first of the fleet of 8 new barges arrived in the Thames on 15th May and loaded her first cargo from the Northern Line Extension Project’s Battersea loading facility the following day. The first barge in the series the GPS 1605 is due to be delivered on 29th May and will also enter service [...]
Following further modernisation and refurbishment since her arrival from Holland last year, the GPS Illyria is finally ready to enter service with the GPS Marine Thames based fleet.