ASSETS AND EXPERTISE

ASSETS AND EXPERTISE
Design and development department employs 5 technicians under the supervision of a chief engineer of 20 years
experience. A systematic study is carried out for each project. This includes site inspection, collection of data,
establishing the design criteria in relation with the client’s requirement... CAD technology is widly used, allowing
worldwide transmission in the shortest time.
The company operates two production plants of respectively 6,000 m2 and 10,000 m2 equipped with state-of-the-art
machinery. All welders are certified by Bureau Veritas and a quality plan is implemented for every order.
On-site installation is always carried out under the control of a senior supervisor. Besides the pontoons, Atlantic
Marine design and build the whole facility including anchoring system (piles, sinkers, tie-rods) and M&E works
(electrical, water, firefighting, fuel supply, sewage pump, controlled gate...)
PRODUCTS
Atlantic Marine floating dock system caters for the lightest crafts to the Megayachts and
Passenger Ferry. The range of products has been developed to answer the need of any marine
operator:
Private developer (marina and residential marina)
Town councils, municipalities… (public marina, floating bridge, public jetty)
Navy, Customs and Coast guard (dock for patrol crafts and landing crafts < 300 ton)
Professionals (pontoons for ferry, fishing trawlers, aquaculture…)
Sport and leisure associations (rowing pontoon, swimming platform…)
River floating jetty – Colmar, France
Rowing pontoon – Grenoble, France
Marina pontoon – La Rochelle, France
Fishing pontoon – Les Sables d’Olonne, France
Pontoons are up to 12m long. Interconnected, they make up piers with virtually no limit in length.
Monolithic pontoons are supplied in widths of 2.0 to 3.0m while modular pontoons (stiffened with tie-beam) are
commonly 4.0 to 5.0m wide.
Freeboard (from 200mm to 1.5m) and liveload (from 1.0 to 5.0 Kpa) will suit all requirements and International
Construction Standards.
Fingers range from 4.0m to 18m in length and 0.6m to 1.5m in width. Tip-end piles are required from 12m up.
A list of accessories such as mooring cleats, bollards, fenders, ladders is available on request.
Extra wide pontoon (7.5m)
Les Sables d’Olonne, France
Megayacht pontoon – Beirut, Lebanon
Ferry pontoon- Guadeloupe, French Caribbean
MATERIALS SPECIFICATION
Atlantic Marine system features non-corrosive materials specifically selected for their suitability in marine
environment and subject to strict quality control at every stage of construction.
Aluminium chassis:
Chassis are made of aluminium marine alloy 6005 and designed as truss-frame. Longitudinal beams are custom-built
extruded section (5 to 14 kg/m) while transversals and diagonals are Rectangular (R.H.S.) or Square Hollow Sections
(S.H.S.). All members are assembled by MIG welding.
View of aluminium frame prior to laying the deck - Singapore
Decks:
Atlantic Marine offers several types of deck.
Tropical hardwood, preferably from Brazil, with high density (in excess of 900kg/m3) and long durability
for outdoor use.
45mm thick polypropylene (PP).
Aluminium deck.
Fenders:
Fenders are fitted on all exposed edges of the pontoons, fingers and pile guides. Materials offered are timber, HDPE,
PVC and rubber. Shapes, dimensions and colors are adapted to every need.
Floats:
Floats are independent and attached to the chassis by clamps or bolts. They are 100% foam filled making pontoons
unsinkable. Replacement if needed can be carried out without the need to dry-dock.
Polyethylene floats (HDPE) are now most common due to their cost effectiveness and free maintenance.
Aluminium floats are more suited to areas subject to strong current and floating debris.
Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC) floats provide wave-attenuation capability when it is needed.
Anchoring system :
Atlantic Marine pontoon suits all methods of anchoring, piles (steel, wooden, concrete), sinkers and chains,
tie-rods to shore, H-beam to vertical wall… Loading calculations are prepared by our design team based on site
conditions and Industry Standards. Atlantic Marine is able to carry out anchoring works all over the world.
Tropical hardwood deck – Penang, Malaysia
Polypropylene (PP) deck- Morgat, France
Wooden pontoon and wharf – Port du Plomb, France
Synthetic deck – St Malo, France
Floating wave attenuator with FRC floats
Beirut, Lebanon
IPE hardwood deck on wharf
Port Camargue, France
Pontoon with Polyethylene (HDPE) fenders
Penang, Malaysia
Man-made floating island
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Besides floating pontoons, Atlantic Marine is able to answer all your requests for special
pontoons (fuel pontoon, floating toilets, floating island, floating slipway…). Our expertise in
aluminium construction allowed us to get involved in various projects such as aquaculture
farms, sewage plants and navigation beacons.
Access gate – Port Camargue, France
Floating slipway- Japan
Access gangway to mooring dolphin
St Jean de Losne, France
Support for navigation beacon
Port La Nouvelle, France
Toilets pontoon – St Malo- France
Fuel pontoon – Martinique, French Caribbean
Aluminium structure for
sewage plant.
Floating bridge- Cruas, France
ALUMINIUM PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES
Atlantic Marine has developed a range of aluminium bridges. They cater for pedestrian and light vehicles (bicycles,
golf carts) and can span up to 45 meters over roads, railways and rivers. Their main advantages are a shortened
installation time (less obstruction to traffic) and much lower maintenance cost in relation to steel or concrete bridges.
As for all its activities, Atlantic Marine can undertake the whole project including foundations.
22m x 2m bridge
Martinique, French Caribbean
20m x 2m bridge
Guadeloupe, French Caribbean
27m x 2m bridge
Fort de France, French Caribbean
Aluminium bridge
Les trios Ilets, French Caribbean
31m x 2.5m bridge - Josselin, France
28m x 2m bridge - Veirn sur Seiche, France
44m x 1.5m bridge - Ploermel, France
Access bridge to Fort Boyard – France
Atlantic Marine WORLDWIDE
Geneva – Switzerland
Al Sharq – Kuweit
La Rochelle – France
Beirut – Lebanon
El Kantaoui- Tunisia
Dubai – UAE