{"id":7580,"date":"2014-01-21T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/beta\/en\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2016-03-02T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T09:41:32","slug":"zamakona-yards-delivers-the-ro-ro-ramp-to-the-tenerife-container-terminal-tct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/zamakona-yards-delivers-the-ro-ro-ramp-to-the-tenerife-container-terminal-tct\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamakona Yards delivers the Ro-Ro ramp to the Tenerife Container Terminal (TCT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">This past Wednesday, 15 January, <strong>Zamakona Yards<\/strong> carried out the load testing and delivery of the movable ramp for the Roll on-Roll off dock built for the <a title=\"Container Terminal of Tenerife\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tctenerife.es\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Container Terminal of Tenerife <\/b><\/a>(<a title=\"OHL Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohl.es\/Default.aspx?lan=en\" target=\"_blank\">OHL Group<\/a>). This innovative elevating structure is the only of its kind in the Canary Islands, permitting a more versatile use of the pier since it will only be employed when vessels with rolling stock arrive (Ro-Ro), permitting the use of the dock for conventional vessels at other times.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">It consist of an elevating ramp, 25 meters wide by 20 meters long, for vessels docking at this point in <a title=\"Port of Tenerife\" href=\"http:\/\/www.puertosdetenerife.org\/index.php\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Tenerife<\/a>. The ramp, which weighs 170 tons is designed to support rolling cargos of 54 tons and static cargos of 30 tons.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The ramp is equipped with an <b>ultimate generation electrical system<\/b> which permits it to be raised to a vertical position when not being used, leaving the dock free to accommodate conventional vessels. In the raised position, noine of the components protrude more than two meters from the edge.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">When inclined it will descend to an angle from the dock from 5,20 meters to 2,90 meters above the equinoctial low tide.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">This elevating Ro-Ro Ramp is the first of this type by the Basque-Canarian Group and the <strong>11<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong> of the total ramps built, having fabricated<strong> in the last 22 years<\/strong> conventional ramps for different public administrations including; The Port Authority of Las Palmas, The Port Authority of Bilbao, The Port Authority of Pasajes, Naviera Armas and in this last cas, The OHL Group of Tenerife.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">With this last construction, <strong>Zamakona Yards moves to the Forefront of Spanish shipyards in the construction and installation of Ro-Ro ramps in the Canary Islands and The Iberian Peninsula<\/strong> as well as to the vanguard worldwide in the design and construction of this type of structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Wednesday, 15 January, Zamakona Yards carried out the load testing and delivery of the movable ramp for the Roll on-Roll off dock built for the Container Terminal of Tenerife (OHL Group). 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