GPS Marine has taken delivery of a new FalchTrailjet 125 2500 bar 26 litre/min UHP water blasting unit. This unit combined with existing airless spray units and compressors gives GPS Marine the ability to further improve the standards to which it maintains its fleet of tugs and barges. The Trailjet unit is provided with a [...]
In line with the aim to have one of the best maintained fleets on the Thames and to ensure that the fleet is in all respects ready to meet the challenges of the next 3 to 5 years of intense activity on the Thames, the tugs GPS Anglia, GPS India have both been drydocked at [...]
The refit of the twin screw IHC built tug GPS Illyria was finally completed in October, a full 12 months after the vessel’s purchase from dredging major Jan De Nul. The 14m tug has under gone a full refit which has included the renewal of both main engines and her auxiliary engine and alternator as [...]
GPS Marine Holdings Ltd is pleased to announce that after an extremely protracted process it has finally completed the purchase of the Damen Stan Tug 1606’s PB Alligator (2010) and PB Sabina (2009) from PB Towage (Australia) Pty Ltd. The purchase of these tugs was originally agreed in March 2016 but problems associated with the [...]
Also on 26th September GPS Marine Contractors Ltd signed a contract with Dockside Ship Facilities BV of Ridderkerk near Rotterdam for the conversion of 5 of the existing fleet of seven 1900 series barges into 1000 cubic metre capacity drywell hopper barges. These modification work on these barges is specifically to enable them to receive [...]
On 26th September GPS Marine Equipment Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of GPS Marine Holdings Ltd) signed a contract to build 7 new 54m LoA x 1000 cubic metre / 1600 tonne dwcc drywell hopper barges with CMS Werf of Leeuwarden in Friesland (the Netherlands). In tonnage terms, this is probably the largest single order [...]
On 23rd September GPS Marine became the first marine operator to sign a contract for the transport of spoil arising from the Thames Tideway Tunnel project. The contract to transport up to 2m tonnes of excavated spoil from tunnel and shaft excavations associated with the Central Section of the Tideway tunnel scheme was the conclusion [...]
GPS Marine continues to provide spoil transport and disposal services to Ferrovial Laing O’Rourke JV (Flo) at the Northern Line extension Site at Battersea. Having cleared the loading berth of over 100 obstructions and rendered the berth safe for craft to lie aground, GPS Marine loads barges from the old Battersea Power Station Jetty just [...]
GPS Marine has secured a contract from Volker Stevin to clear the pile lines and to dredge to berthing box at the TTT East Chambers Wharf Cofferdam. The pile line clearance and UXO investigation work has already been completed and the main dredging is set to take place in early 2017. Meanwhile, GPS Marine is [...]
On 7th July 2016 GPS Marine was awarded its Interim Document of Compliance under the ISM Code. This was the culmination of 5 years’ work in first establishing a documented safety management system and then implementing and developing it such that voluntary compliance with the ISM Code could eventually be achieved. This has been true [...]