Peter Stenner, Managing Director of Teignmouth Maritime Services Ltd, said:
We look forward to welcoming a wide range of vessels and businesses to our slipways in the years to come.
As we begin to see the green shoots of recovery following the coronavirus pandemic, we hope that this investment will help to provide the stimulus that river-based businesses need and bring benefits to not only London but also the wider region. Cory has been operating on the Thames for over 100 years, and this latest project is part of our ongoing investment in the river and its infrastructure. The businesses which operate on the River Thames are part of the backbone of London’s economy, and a continuation of the capital’s history as a river-based city. Cory has also recently announced a multi-million-pound contract with Newcastlebased A&P Tyne, part of the A&P Group, for the delivery of twenty-one new barges over a seven-year period.Ĭommenting on the upgrades, Fran Comerford-Cole, Director of Logistics for Cory, said: The upgrades signal Cory’s continued commitment to investing in river-based infrastructure given its position as a long-term operator on the River Thames, going back over one hundred years. This included three new winches, a 20- tonne main slipway winch and a pair of five tonne downhaul winches with accompanying pulley and guide ropes. North Sea Winches also designed, manufactured, and installed new winches to replace the ones previously in place. The project was completed in partnership with Teignmouth Maritime Services (TMS) Ltd., which replaced the existing, deteriorating steel on the slipways with new British steel, as well as repairing the existing pile caps. They will also be used for upgrades and maintenance of Cory’s fleet of tugs and barges, which are used to transport around 1 million tonnes of residual waste and aggregate up and down the River Thames each year. The upgraded slipways can be booked by marine operators for ship repairs, surveys and refurbishments through Cory. Each of the two slipways is capable of receiving ships up to a weight of 400 tonnes, a length of 60 metres and up to a width of 18 metres depending on the type of vessel. The significant investment in the slipways is the first stage of the redevelopment of the site, since Cory acquired it in 2018.
Thames slipways upgrade#
Monday, 10th August, 2020 Cory Riverside Energy completes rebuild and upgrade of WWII ship slipwaysġ0.08.20 Cory Riverside Energy (Cory) has announced the completion of works to rebuild and upgrade two WWII-era slipways at Denton Wharf in Gravesend on the banks of the River Thames.
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