Using ship motion modelling to achieve
significant benefits over the standard methods
Using ship motion modelling to achieve significant benefits over the standard methods
Experience
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Channel Design, Dredge Optimisaion, UKC Analysis
Dynamic Moored Vessel Analysis
Full Scale Vessel Motion Analysis
Channel Design, Dredge Optimisaion, UKC Analysis
2021 | |
Associated British Ports | Channel UKC study for The Humber river ports. |
(JNPT) Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust | DUKC® benefit study. |
2020 | |
Tanger Med | Tanger Med Assessment of UKC requirements for Ultra Large Container Ships at the Port of Tanger Med (TM1). |
Dampier Salt Ltd | Study to evaluate optimum berth pocket depths at Mistaken Island. |
Viva Energy | Dredge optimisation analysis for the deep draft tanker route at Geelong. |
T-Ports | UKC and accessibility assessment for the Lucky Eyre transhipment vessel. |
Confidential | Full scale measurements and squat analysis for a passenger vessel. |
2019 | |
ExxonMobil | Assessment of UKC requirements for larger tankers and LNG vessels at the Caution Bay terminal in Papua New Guinea. |
T-Ports | Dynamic Port Capacity Modelling of the greenfields Lucky Bay transhipment operation. |
North Queensland Bulk Ports | Channel depth assessment for Capesized vessels at Weipa. |
Woodside | UKC risk assessment for Woodside’s Dampier operations. |
TangerMed | Assessment of UKC requirements for Ultra Large Container Ships at the Port of Tanger Med |
Pilbara Ports Authority (Port Hedland) | Channel Risk & Optimisation Project (CROP) update. |
TasPorts | Assessment of the static UKC regime for the port of Burnie. |
Teck Resources | Assessment of maximum potential sailing drafts for outbound bulk carriers at the Port of Vancouver. |
Belfast Harbour | Review of UKC requirements for bulk carriers, ferries and cruise ships. |
2018 | |
South 32 / GEMCO | Groote Eylandt UKC analysis. |
North Queensland Bulk Ports | Jessica Point study. |
Rio Tinto | Dredge benefits analysis for Dampier and Cape Lambert. |
Rio Tinto | Dredge volume analysis to accommodate capesize class vessels at a port facility. |
Flinders Ports | Navigational risk assessment for container vessels at Port Adelaide. |
AECOM (Confidential) | Channel accessibility study for container vessels at an existing port. |
WA Port (Confidential) | Channel accessibility and dredge optimisation study to assess the viability of larger vessels. |
2017 | |
Mid West Ports Authority | Feasibility assessment for new vessel class including full bridge simulations. |
Mid West Ports Authority | Channel design for new vessel class. |
Mid West Ports Authority | Dredging benefits analysis. |
AECOM | Channel accessibility study for the Port of Newcastle. |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore (Dampier) | Post dredge analysis to assess the benefits of the dredging campaign. |
Lyttelton, NZ | Evaluation of channel capacity for a nominated channel profile, and optimisation of the depths to achieve the same throughput. |
WA Port (Confidential) | Channel accessibility and dredge optimisation study to assess the viability of larger vessels. |
Caltex | UKC at berth risk assessment for Kurnell Berth at Port Botany. |
Woodside | UKC risk assessment for Woodside’s Dampier operations and development of an operational planning tool. |
2016 | |
Montreal Port Authority | Optimisation of the dredging requirements for the St Lawrence river between Montreal and Trois-Rivieres. |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore (Cape Lambert) | Progress survey channel analysis to assess the benefits of additional dredging to assist in the management of the dredge campaign and determine the most critical areas to target. |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore (Dampier) | Progress survey channel analysis to determine the benefits of achieving a revised depth target to inform the direction of the dredge campaign. |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore (Cape Lambert) | Assessment of the impacts on sailing drafts resulting from channel accretion. |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore (Dampier) | Analysis of the expected benefits with respect to sailing windows and maximum drafts for a number of alternative dredged channel profiles. |
2015 | |
Pilbara Port Authority (Port Hedland) | Assessment of the benefits expected from the Channel Risk and Optimisation (CROP) proposal. |
Aurizon | Evaluation of channel capacity for a nominated channel profile, and optimisation of the depths to achieve the same throughput. |
2014 | |
Pilbara Port Authority (Port Hedland) | Analysis of expected benefits gained by increasing the depth of the channel. |
Geraldton Port Authority | Vessel motion analysis to assess UKC requirements. |
2013 | |
Geraldton Port Authority | Channel UKC risk assessment. |
Port of Brisbane Corporation | Dredging impact study to quantify the expected increase in maximum sailing draft gained by increasing the depth of the channel. |
Port of Melbourne Corporation | Tanker Access Study for 14.7m tanker vessels accessing the Port of Melbourne. |
Port Hedland Port Authority | Inner Harbour dredge capacity study for Port Hedland Port Authority to target critical dredging spots considering UKC requirements. |
2012 | |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore | Assessment of channel width requirements for Cape Lambert, WA. |
2011 | |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore | Channel design optimisation for maximising vessel utilisation at Cape Lambert, WA. |
Worley Parsons / OPR | Oakajee channel design. |
Fremantle Ports | Channel accessibility study. |
Chevron | LNG vessel motion analysis. |
Port of Townsville | UKC assessment. |
2010 | |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore | Analysis of current forces on vessels for Cape Lambert berths. |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore | Channel design optimisation for proposed port developments at Cape Lambert, WA. |
JFA Consultants | Oakajee barge motion analysis. |
2009 | |
Port Hedland Port Authority | Channel design study to determine dredge requirements to achieve incremental draft gains. |
JFA Consultants | Oakajee channel design. |
Rio Tinto Iron Ore | Channel design optimisation for proposed port developments at Cape Lambert, WA. |
AECOM for API | Channel design optimisation for proposed bulk port at Anketell Point, WA. |
Ports Corporation Queensland (Weipa) | Targeted dredging advice to optimise DUKC®. |
2008 | |
Port Otago Limited | Channel design optimisation for the Port of Otago for next generation 6,000 & 8,000 TEU container vessels. |
JFA Consultants / Albany Port Authority | Peer review of channel design for approach channel for proposed expansion for Grange resources. |
Gasbridge, NZ | Channel design optimisation for Port Taranaki (NZ) for proposed LNG vessels consistent with the operational DUKC®. |
2007 | |
Worley Parsons | UKC Sensitivity Study for proposed Oakajee port development, Western Australia. |
Maunsell | UKC Sensitivity Study for proposed Oakajee port development, Western Australia. |
2006 | |
Worley Parsons | UKC requirements and channel depths for tankers transiting the Dampier channel to be developed for the Woodside Pluto Project. |
2005 | |
Silver Fern Shipping | Channel design optimisation for the Port of Marsden Point, (NZ) to provide a design that is consistent with the operational DUKC®. |
Ports Corp Queensland | Channel design optimisation for the Port of Hay Point to provide a design that is consistent with the operational DUKC®. |
Westgate Transport | Channel design optimisation for Port Taranaki (NZ) to provide a design that is consistent with the operational DUKC®. |
Flinders Ports | Channel design optimisation for the approaches to the Adelaide Outer Harbour to maximise the yield of their planned capital dredging. |
Fremantle Ports | Channel design optimisation for Fremantle Ports to provide a design that is consistent with the operational DUKC®. |
Newcastle Port Corporation | Channel depth analysis for the Port of Newcastle following the recent implementation of a DUKC® system. |
2003 | |
TranzRail and Beca Carter Hollings and Ferner | Desk top study to determine optimum channel depths for a proposed rail ferry terminal at exposed site at Clifford Bay, South Island, NZ. |
Hamersley Iron | Study to determine depth increases and locations to achieve optimum yield increase, Port of Dampier, WA. |
2002 | |
Geraldton Port Authority | Navigation study to determine minimum depths required for the specified wave conditions to provide the required UKC for the specified design vessel for the Geraldton Port Enhancement Project, WA. |
2001 | |
Geraldton Port Authority | Navigation study to assess dredging options of North and South Channels, Geraldton Port, WA. |
Ports of Auckland Limited | Review of channel design and UKC requirements for the deepening of the port approach channels. |
2000 | |
Port Authority of New York/New Jersey | Desk study of dredging options for Kill Van Kull and Newark Channels, New York Harbour, USA. |
Victorian Channels Authority | Deepening study of Port Phillip Channels, Melbourne, Vic. |
1998 | |
Townsville Port Authority | Study into ship-bank interaction to assess the optimum dredging required to reduce the existing bank effect by 50%. Included full scale and model-scale measurements of bank effect forces and moments as well as numerical modelling of the bank effect being experienced at Townsville, Qld. |
1992 | |
Ports Corporation of Queensland | Development of a transit/UKC simulation model for the Port of Weipa, Qld, to investigate various options related to dredged bed level profiles, gross under-keel clearance allowances, vessel scheduling and variation of vessel engine speed along the transit through the harbour and South Channel. |
Dynamic Moored Vessel Analysis
2022 | |
Gladstone Ports Corporation | Moored vessel risk analysis |
Pilbara Ports Authority | Dynamic moored vessel analysis including the impact of passing vessels. |
BHP | Comprehensive dynamic moored vessel analysis to ensure safe mooring practices. |
Antofagasta Minerals | Dynamic moored vessel analysis for vessels at Puerto Punta Chungo, Chile, including the impact of long period waves. |
NQBP | Optimisation of mooring arrangements for multiple vessel classes at each berth. |
Lyttelton Port Company | Mooring analysis to evaluate expected operability and downtime for a berth expansion project, considering both traditional and active mooring systems. |
Alcoa | Analysis of moored vessel motions and mooring line forces. |
Eastland Port | Dynamic moored vessel analysis at Gisborne, including infra-gravity waves. |
2020 | |
Antofagasta Minerals | Dynamic moored vessel analysis for vessels at Puerto Punta Chungo, Chile, including the impact of long period waves. |
Pilbara Ports Authority | Assessment of alternative mooring arrangements for the Dampier Cargo Wharf. |
Maritime Constructions | Dynamic mooring analysis for the Smith Bay Floating Wharf study at Kangaroo Island. |
NQBP | Dynamic mooring analysis for the Hay Point berths. |
Flinders Ports | Dynamic mooring analysis for Port Adelaide Outer Harbour berths. |
Gladstone Ports Corporation | Passing vessel interaction study for RG Tanna berths. |
Rio Tinto | Assessment of alternative mooring configurations. |
Port Hedland | Dynamic mooring analysis including passing vessels. |
2019 | |
Port Hedland | Dynamic mooring analysis including passing vessels for Utah Point berth with Cavotec MoorMaster units. |
Fremantle Ports | Dynamic mooring analysis examining motions of moored vessels in the Inner Harbour. |
Fremantle Ports / Alcoa | Dynamic moored vessel analysis including analysis of infragravity (long period) waves. |
Rio Tinto | Post incident mooring analysis, including an assessment of alternative mooring configurations. |
Port of Napier | Dynamic moored vessel analysis for Cavotec MoorMaster system. |
2018 | |
Caltex | Passing vessel interaction study at the Port of Brisbane. |
Caltex | Dynamic moored vessel response analysis for MR and LR1 tankers at the Port of Mackay. |
2017 | |
AECOM / BP | Tangguh LNG project. |
Caltex Australia | Barney Point moored vessel response analysis for passing vessel interactions, Gladstone. |
Fremantle Ports | Moored vessel response analysis for passing vessel interactions. |
Rio Tinto | VLOC mooring analysis for Cape Lambert. |
2016 | |
Viva Energy | Mooring analysis for LR1 tankers at Dampier. |
Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec | Kangaroo Island floating wharf mooring analysis. |
Gladstone Ports Corporation | Clinton vessel interaction study assuming Cavotec MoorMaster. |
Jacobs | Moored vessel analysis for Amrun project. |
Pilbara Ports Authority | Passing vessel interaction study for MoorMaster moorings at Utah Point, Port Hedland. |
2015 | |
Rio Tinto | Assessment of alternative mooring configurations for iron ore berths at Dampier. |
2014 | |
Rio Tinto | Numerical modelling study of vessel motions, mooring line tensions and fender deflections for Ehoala berth, Madagascar. |
Rio Tinto | Moored vessel analysis for Cape Lambert operational Berth Warning System. |
AECOM | Moored vessel analysis for Geraldton Berth 7. |
2013 | |
Jacobs | Moored vessel analysis for Amrun project. |
2012 | |
GHB / Arrow Head | Dynamic vessel mooring study for Gladstone LNG jetty. |
AECOM | Numerical modelling study of vessel motions, mooring line tensions and fender deflections for proposed Port Kembla Outer Harbour development. |
FASTJV / BHP | Quantum Project, Port Hedland Western Australia. |
2011 | |
SKM | Passing vessel interaction study for Port of Newcastle. |
KLH / James Price Port | Dynamic vessel mooring study for proposed LNG Berth at James Price Point. |
AECOM | Numerical modelling study of vessel motions, mooring line tensions and fender deflections for proposed Port Kembla Outer Harbour development. |
AECOM | Dynamic vessel mooring study for Port Hedland’s FMG3 berth. |
SKM / BHP | Dynamic vessel mooring study for Port Hedland’s AP4 and AP5 berths including MoorMaster units. |
Aztec Analysis | Numerical moored vessel study for a Land Helicopter Dock (LHD) vessel at BAE site. |
Beca | Mooring study for Clifford Bay including MoorMaster units. |
2010 | |
AECOM | Dynamic vessel mooring study for Geraldton #7 Berth including MoorMaster units. |
SKM / Rio Tinto | Mooring analysis for proposed Cape Lambert Port B berths. |
Aspec Engineering | Mooring analysis for Hay Point upgrade. |
Cavotec | MoorMaster mooring analyses for Hay Point. |
Geraldton Port Authority | Dynamic vessel mooring study for Geraldton #3, 4 & 5 Berths. |
PHPA | Utah Point Port Moorings Analysis including MoorMaster units, Port Hedland. |
Full Scale Vessel Motion Analysis
2021
- Ponta Ubu
- Wellington
- Botany Bay
- Abbot Point
- Centreport
- Columbia River Bar
- Centreport
- Napier
- Columbia River Bar
- Melbourne
- Newcastle
- Itaguai
- Melbourne
- Cape Lambert
- Dampier
- Torres Strait
- Bunbury
- Belfast
- Newcastle
- Melbourne
- Gisborne
- Geelong
- Lyttelton
- St Lawrence
- Torres Strait
- Gladstone
- Melbourne
- Mundra
- Whyalla
- San Francisco
- Torres Strait
- Weipa
- Brisbane
- Hobart
- Gladstone
- Torres Strait
- Weipa
- San Francisco
- Halifax
- Melbourne
- Geelong
- San Francisco
- Spencer Gulf
- Brisbane
- Napier
- Melbourne
2014
- Port Hedland
- Melbourne
- Napier
- Fraser River
- Port Hedland
- Geraldton
- Fremantle
- Cape Cuvier
- Ocean
- Brisbane
- Columbia River Bar
- Singapore
- Newcastle
- Ocean
- Bass Strait
- Melbourne
- Columbia River Bar
- Geelong
- Bass Strait
- Columbia River Bar
- Melbourne
- Port Phillip Bay
- Vancouver
- Torres Strait
- Cape Lambert
- Newcastle
- Townsville
- Weser River
- Weipa
- Port Kembla
- Weser River
- Torres Strait
- Marsden Point
- Hay Point
- Brisbane
- Weser River
- Melbourne
2006
- Singapore
- Newcastle
- Marsden Point
- Lisbon
- Gladstone
- Geraldton
- Dampier
- Gisborne
- Marsden Point
- Mackay
- Geraldton
- Fremantle
- Brisbane
- Weser River
- Port Hedland
- Marsden Point
- Geelong
- Napier
- Weser River
- Weser River
- Geelong
- Melbourne
- New York
- Weser River
- Geelong
- Weipa
- Karumba
- Weser River
- Geelong
- Townsville
- Melbourne
- Weser River
- Geelong
- Fremantle
- Dampier
- Port Hedland