FCC`s experience in maritime works

in maritime works
FCC’s experience
Maritime Works
Value contributions
FCC has been executing complex, highly-technical maritime works on an
international level for over twenty years, resulting in an extensive portconstruction portfolio and consolidating it as one of the most significant
reference companies on the international scene in this field.
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Activities provided for the client
FCC Construccion, with its accumulated experience of more than a century of history,
is the Infrastructure Department of the FCC Group, an international reference company
in environmental services, water and construction.
Full design and engineering: adopted to operational requirements
Comprehensive infrastructure execution
EPC contracts (Engineering, Procurement and Construction)
Its activities cover all engineering and construction areas in civil works and building.
It was a pioneer in developing its own business model in a profitable and sustainable
manner, banking on local development and contributing to the improvement of the
people’s quality of life.
Commercial port (bulk, container and multi-terminal) and sport-sailing marina concessions
Maritime industrial installations for oil & gas (petroleum and derivatives, Liquefied Natural Gas –LNG-, etc.)
Our own execution teams
Through its Machinery Department, FCC has been maintaining a continuous investment
policy into its own execution means for many years and which provides a high degree of
independence and quality in the provided service. Mar del Teide (1992), Mar del Aneto
(2002) and Mar del Enol (2010) floating docks are all outstanding works, together with the
self-propelled Acanto (2003) dump barge with dynamic positioning.
FCC Construccion possesses wide experience in port construction.
Construction of the world’s largest floating dock in Monaco, the Port of
Igoumenitsa in Greece, the expansion of the Port of El Musel in Gijon,
the recreation port in Sant Adrià del Besòs, the Barcelona Olympic port
and the solid-bulk terminal in the Port of Castellón.
Currently, FCC Construccion is executing some of the largest projects in
the maritime world, such as the Port of Açu in Brazil and the expansion of
the Port of El Callao, in Peru.
Self-propelled Acanto
Mar del Teide
Mar del Aneto
Mar del Enol
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Since 2007, FCC Construccion has had its own patent created from a set of R&D&I
projects for a low-reflection, vertical face for caissons employed in shelter and mooring
works, which have been successfully applied to quays and sea walls.
FCC Construccion is developing the IISIS (Comprehensive Research into Sustainable
Islands) Project, within a consortium that the FCC Group is leading with the majority
participation. One of the basic activities consists of research into the engineering,
construction and advanced materials for singular structures in the open sea, subjected to
extreme weather and environmental conditions and their use in obtaining wave-power energy.
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Maritime Works
Maritime Works
Breakwaters
Quays
El Callao Port, Perú
Expansion of the Port of El Musel, in Gijón, Asturias
Construction of a new breakwater. One of the main Spanish seaports
on the Spanish North Coast and the leading port in dry bulk. FCC
executed the expansion of the Port of El Musel, which included the
construction of a breakwater with a sloping section and a vertical
section, organised of reforced concrete floating caissons. The new
breakwater is 3,867 metres long.
The container terminal in the Port of Cadiz, Spain
The new Port of Igoumenitsa, Greece
El Musel, Spain
The works consist of extending the existing eastern breakwater by
2,165 metres. This required the placement of 450,000 m3 of concrete
in 50-tonnes blocks along the length of the breakwater. The breakwater
runs over sections with low load-bearing capacity that required the
development of a constructive method in which the process of dredging
and dumping was designed and controlled to take advantage of the
improvement of the soil caused by consolidation.
The Cocosolo container terminal in Panama
The eastern breakwater in the Port of Barcelona, Spain
Extension of the Reina Sofía breakwater. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Port Besós Marina in Barcelona, Spain
The construction project for the new marina in Sant Adriá, includes the
execution of an 830-metre long breakwater formed with concrete caissons
that are placed on a rockfill bedding protected by concrete blocks, concrete
sheet-pile quay walls, a bathing area consisting of islands and jetties with
a surrounding paved area, with drinking water supply, sewerage and
drainage, a water interceptor sewer and a new emergency outfall.
The floating breakwater, Monaco The floating dock in Monaco
The work consists of the union of the Reus and Lleida quays in the Port
of Tarragona, through a road bascule bridge formed by two 51.5-metres
long sections, with a distance between supports of 80 metres, leaving
an 70-metres opening over the basin for the passage of vessels;
it has a steel box girder section, with variable depth and an orthotropic
slab deck with a 0.8-cm thick pavement. The project also includes the
expansion of the quays and attached esplanades.
The Barcelona bascule bridge in Spain
This involved the construction of a bridge to establish a new land
connection between the west and attached quays in the Port of
Barcelona, essential after the opening of the new North mouth. The
project is divided into two sections: the structural steel bascule bridge
section over the navigation channel and special piers that house the
tilting blade drive mechanisms; and the access viaducts that connect
the quay level to the mobile section, located 22 metres above sea level.
The total length of the structure is 1,150 metres and bridge width is a
twelve metres.
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) storage tanks at the ENAGAS Plant in the Port of Barcelona, Spain
Construction of four, total containment type, liquefied gas storage tanks,
each with a 150,000 cubic metres capacity. With this system, each tank
is made up of a cryogenic-steel inner tank and an outer tank composed
of a steel casing and a pre-stressed concrete wall. The whole assembly
has foam-glass and perlite insulation that is required to prevent the
liquefied natural gas from heating up.
ENAGAS tanks in Barcelona Port, Spain
The San Adriá del Besós recreation port, Spain
The works consist of the execution of a new lock, located on the Alfonso
XIII Canal that provides access to the Guadalquivir basin is 434 metres
long, with gravity walls and four rolling gates. It is the only lock in Spain
for ocean-going vessels. Its operational length es 293 metres and is
40 wide, which allows vessels of up to 29,000 deadweight tons (DWT)
Port of Seville lock, Spain
to enter the Port of Seville.
North-south connection. Reus-Lérida quays. Mobile Bridge. Port of Tarragona, Spain
Port of Tarragona, Spain
This is the construction of the biggest floating breakwater in the world.
The caisson displaces 165,000 tonnes and, from the maritime point of
view, is a double-hull concrete vessel that is 352 metres long, 28 wide
and 19 high. The floating dock was constructed in an “ad hoc” dry
dock in Algeciras bay and then towed to its final location in Monaco.
Its principal goal was to expand the Port of Condamine and to provide
shelter for the Port as well as cruise ship mooring which, up to now,
could only call at the Port of Nice in France.
Concession, construction and operation of the dry bulk solids terminal in the South Basin of the Port of Castellón, Spain
This project consists of the construction of the dry bulk terminal, the
superstructure and all relevant installations for its operation, includin
the construction of offices, repair and warehouse buildings. The project also
includes the execution of a 500-metres quay wall and a 60,000-square metres
loading and unloading platform. The platform includes the installation of two
450-tonnes Gottwald-class cranes with 50 metres range and 100-tonnes
lifting capacity.
Castellon Port, Spain
Port of Seville sea going vessels navigation lock, Spain The Reina Sofía breakwater, Spain
Port Adriano, Spain
Special works
FCC carried out the extension of the Reina Sofía breakwater by 487.46 metres
north to south. The extension was constructed using nine floating
reinforced concrete caissons. Lastly, 150-tonnes pull bollards were
installed, together with 1,000-mm diameter cylindrical fenders and
14-metres high lampposts.
The Cocosolo container terminal, Panama
The port consists of a driven-pile quay of 616-metres long reinforced
concrete deck, with a container storage yard and nine buildings.
Extension of the East breakwater in the Port of Barcelona, Spain
Expansion of the Port Adriano, Calviá, Balearic Islands, Spain
The works consisted of the construction of a new outer port basin, together
as well as other works on the existing port. In order to increase the capacity
of the former installations and the number and size of the available slips,
thus providing 82 new moorings for boats between 20 and 60 metres long.
A set of commercial buildings was also constructed, as well as workshops
and new services and facilities for port users. The caissons were constructed
in the Port of Castellón and towed to Mallorca by tugboats.
The new Port of Igoumenitsa, Greece
Port of Vigo fish market in Spain
The Laredo Recreational Port, Spain
It is one of the most important transportation hubs in Greece, the project
consists of the execution of 780 linear meters of vertical quay wall to cater
for twelve ferries simultaneously. The quay structure consists of
26 reinforced concrete floating caissons manufactured in our Mar del Teide
floating dry dock and includes soil improvement techniques because of its
high seismicity and loose materials at the site.
Port of Vigo fish market in Spain
This is a new building that houses the Port of Vigo fish market, with a
total constructed area of 16,609 square metres. The project includes
a rectangular building and a 27-metres diameter cylindrical tower that
contains a salt-water tank and a ramp for access to the vehicle parking.
The main building has three levels above the grade line and it houses
all the fish market and office facilities. The project also included the
demolition of existing constructions and the adaption the quay wall in
125 m for forming two ramps.
This is one of the largest recreational ports in Spain and is located on the
Cantabrian Sea. The project includes the design, construction and operation
of the marina during a forty-year period. The port is constructed over
an area of 180,613 square metres, including a fishing boat wharf and a
recreational vessel basin. With these works, the port can hold 857 vessels.
This consists of the construction of the new Port of Cadiz container
terminal, with an area of 22 hectares, a 590-metre long quay wall
and a 320-metres breakwater. This is a strategic project for planning
and development of the city port activity.
Açu Port, Brazil
The Laredo Marina in Santander, Spain
Cadiz Port, Spain
Special buildings
Port of El Callao, Perú
This contract is for one of the biggest ports on the Pacific Ocean. The
project involves the construction of a new container terminal with quay wall
paving and buildings. It includes the construction of stages I and II in the
port: the remodelling of quay 11 and the northern part of quay 5, which
will enable larger vessels to dock.
Port of Açu, Brazil
This port is located 315 kilometres north of Río de Janeiro. Açu is the
third largest port in the world and the largest on the American continent,
with capacity for 350 million tonnes per year. The project consists of
the construction of a 2,438 metres caisson breakwater floating that
is constructed by manufacturing and sinking 49 reinforced concrete
caissons, and a 600-metres long sloping breakwater. The large caissons
have an average length of 45 metres, breadth 24 metres, heights of
between 18 and 29 metres and a weight of 10,000 tonnes. Its first nine
caissons were casted in the Port of Algeciras and were transported in
semi-submerged vessels.
Recreation Ports
The Barcelona bascule bridge, Spain
Carlos I wharf infrastructure at the Port Olympic in Barcelona, Spain
Execution of the Barcelona Olympic Port through protection jetties
crowned by a wall in shape of terraces, together with the execution
of the execution of a breakwater with floating caissons and an internal
quay walls. The works were completed with the construction of
the port buildings, such as a reception building, sailing school, the
convention centre, outdoor parking and the urban development of the
surroundings.
The submerged Denia-Ibiza gas pipeline, Spain
The Barcelona Olympic Port, Spain
The construction of a navigation channel between the interior basin in the open north mouth Port of Valencia (2007 America’s Cup), Spain The works consisted of the construction of a canal, approximately
600 metres long, 80 metres wide and 7 metres of draught, with a
central channel of 40 metres wide and 8 metres deep. The channel
was constructed with low-reflection walls. This allows the navigation
between the inner basin and the north mouth and open sea.
Furthermore, the connection to the other quays was also executed. The
works include a cleaning dredging and sbankfilling with run of quarry
finalized with an asphalt pavement.
The submerged Denia-Ibiza gas pipeline, Spain
The landfall works of that mark the entrances and exits of
the pipelines in Denia, Ibiza and Majorica. The project for the
introduction of natural gas into the Balearic Islands is in line with
the energy model proposed by the European Union.
Sierra Tramontana water resource exploitation, Spain
The works consist of the execution of the infraestructure required
for collecting water from Ses Fonts de Verger and the surpluses from
Torrente Major de Sóller and the connection to the supply networks
for the population centres of Sóller, Bunyola, Palmanyola and Palma
de Mallorca. In order to collect this water, a reservoir y was executed
next to the natural source. Once the water is collected, it is transported
through a 9,670-metres long underwater pipeline that is designed fora
1.4 m3/second flow rate that enters the Port of Sóller.
Sierra Tramontana water resource exploitation, Spain
The Port of Valencia, Spain
Under-construction works
Completed works