I would have settled for Landing Stage. I'm just glad that it doesn't have the word 'ocean' in it.
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I would have settled for Landing Stage. I'm just glad that it doesn't have the word 'ocean' in it.
Wasn't the old landing stage known as the Princes Landing Stage? What would have been wrong with that? The chosen name seems to me a bit work-a-day and uninspired but I suppose it will serve its purpose. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul D
Chris
Manchester has a cruise terminal, where the Mersey ferry docks after its ship canal journey. What's that - Liverpool think big?????
At least with the title Ocean gateway, it's telling the world something - that this is your first port of call, like in the old days.
I wonder how much a team of consultants were paid to think that name up, there was a case a few years ago of bradford university wanted a name for the new teaching hospital after nine months the consultants came up wioth university of bradford teaching hospital
5 April,
Foreground, the sunken stage is being broken up and in the background another "Dolphin" is fixed.........
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Samuel Cunard Way is almost finished.........:034:
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Thanks Woody :)
This pic gives some indication of the size of the project.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/term1.jpg
THE newly named City of Liverpool Cruise Terminal will be officially opened by royalty during an open air public concert and fireworks display, it was revealed last night more
How many brain cells and at what cost did it take to come up with these names ?
(1) City of Liverpool Cruise Terminal
(2) Samuel Cunard Way
The mind boggles
Phredd
"Angie Redhead, the city council’s cruise manager"Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
What a cool name!:handclap:
"Cruise manager" George Michael could have done with one of these before his career went down the sh**ter:disgust::)
LIVERPOOL’S new cruise liner landing stage will be towed into its new home before the end of May, leaving just weeks to rehearse its security and management processes.
However, council cruise manager Angie Redhead last night insisted that the project was racing forward at ‘‘full steam ahead’’ pace.
The council’s executive board will today formally endorse the new name for the £19m cruise facility, to be known as the City of Liverpool Cruise Terminal. continues....
Thats great news! I hope it all goes to plan. I work in the Cunard Building so I have a birds-eye view of the site.
Great stuff!
*sigh* I wish they would call the landing stage 'the floaty for the boaty' dunno why...just amuses me.
^^It's a biggin!^^
Sunday 15th April 2007.
http://www.liverpoolviews.co.uk/pier.../pd1504071.jpg
19th April 2007
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/220/4...09747a37_o.jpg
THE return of the world’s biggest liners to the Mersey is coming a step closer, as a crucial stage of construction begins at Liverpool’s new cruise liner terminal. more
THE return of the world’s biggest liners to the Mersey is coming a step closer, as a crucial stage of construction begins at Liverpool’s new cruise liner terminal. more
Saga Cruise Line have announced that they will be originating at least five cruises from Liverpool this year. The ships to be used are the Saga Rose, which will account for four of the cruises and the other ship, Spirit of Adventure, will conduct the other cruise. Unfortunately neither ship will use the new cruise berth facility but will, instead, depart from the cruise terminal in Langton Dock.
Bet i get stuck before loads of old people taking ages to get anywhere.
ONE of the world’s biggest holiday operators is to base a luxury cruise liner in Liverpool during the city’s year as European Capital of Culture.
Thomson Cruises is adding the Mersey as a home port during autumn next year, with the 1,300-capacity Celebration offering luxury journeys to ports such as Morocco.
It is the first time the company has used Liverpool as a starting point for its cruises as part of its drive to cater for growing demand from holidaymakers from Merseyside and North West.
Last night, David Selby, head of Thomson Cruises, said: “We delighted to announce that we are expanding our UK programme by adding Liverpool to our range of UK ports in 2008.
“We have a very loyal client base in the North West and not all prefer to fly to their chosen cruise ship.”
It will mean a record 30 cruises, carrying around 50,000 passengers, starting in Liverpool during 2008 to destinations such as the Amazon, Greenland and the Mediterranean.
Thomson is joining Fred Olsen Cruise Lines and cruise operators Page and Moy and Saga who are all stepping up their 2008 programmes from the Mersey.
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/...4375-19436821/
Great news, this makes us unique to any of our closest rivals.
Exactly Ged,anyone can have an airport but the river sets us apart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
I see that the Pontoons for the cruise terminal have yet to be floated to Princes Dock. This was reported to be scheduled to happen in June. I didn't notice the Pontoons in Canada Dock when I passed a couple of days ago (mind you, it was full of water at the time).
I thought it was delayed until the end of June. The new landing stage should be towed into position sometime soon.
A Diver contact tells me that the new Pontoons are in a bad state they have been trying to sort them "in water" and have not yet passed the LLoyds Inspection! They are now going to be dry docked and sorted , so god knows when they'll be ready!Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenface
Regards
Rob
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I wonder what the cause of the problem is. The worst case scenario would be that the concrete was not vibrated to the bottom of the steelwork...if any steel is showing though the bottom of the concrete, then the pontoons would be uninsurable.
sorry to be ignorant but what is a pontoon?Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
The pontoons are the concrete (re-inforced with steel) structures which will be fixed to form one long landing stage...in theory anyway, as there seems to be something delaying the completion of it.
Here is a picture of a Pontoon with crane at the pier head. >>>>
Not the best of pics though. Two tugs are also in the oicture.
Phredd
I work in one of the buildings in front of it so I look at them everyday!
No work has taken place for ages...
I heard a rumour they've now been shifted to a dry-dock over the water. I don't know Birkenhead too well, but I'm sure they're not hard to find, if this is the case. I'm still awaiting some official announcement of the delay...it's already a month behind.
CONTRACT 1077
Liverpool Cruise Liner Facility, Princes Dock
Operational Services
1ST June 2007 to 31st May 2012
INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS
Liverpool City Council is constructing a landing stage at Princes Dock and the physical facilities necessary to attract consistently and in the long-term Cruise ships, naval vessels and other exhibition vessels to Liverpool (the “Cruise Liner Facility” (CLF)).
The CLF construction contract was awarded in January 2006 and is due to be completed in June 2007. Concurrently with the construction works, the City Council is seeking to procure the services required to operate the CLF effectively and sustainably.
More here
http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Images/tcm21-76617.doc
Or here in Html format
http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache...nk&cd=21&gl=uk
kat:)
Giant Pontoon Cruises into Liverpool
01 Feb 2007
The Canada Graving Dock in Liverpool is playing host to an unfamiliar type of construction. The dock, which was the largest in Europe when it was built in the 1880s, has seen the construction of the Cunard Liners Lusitania and Mauretania. The latest structure to be added to the dock’s CV is the construction of the new reinforced concrete pontoons to be used as part of the city’s new cruise liner facility.
http://www.maritimejournal.com/__dat...uise_liner.JPG
More here
http://www.maritimejournal.com/archi...into_liverpool
kat
two sections of the cruise liner pontoon can be seen in Birkenhead's dry docks, both sections can be seen from Birkenhead Priory
:eek:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7576/pont1nh0.jpg
Photograph taken by The MerseyOrange, url, skyscrapercity.com
found via google
herehttp://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Pon...&start=30&sa=N
kat
pontoon being repaired/inspected in dry dock camel Lairds Birkenhead
Race against time to be ready for QE2 visit
Aug 10 2007
by Larry Neild, Liverpool Daily Post
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/ic...02AC1BF824.jpg
LIVERPOOL faces a race against time to have its multi-million cruise liner terminal ready for its official launch event with the QE2.
In what could be a new body blow following the Mathew Street Festival fiasco, the cruise liner landing stage – which had been due to receive its first visitor last month – has been towed to Wirral’s Cammell Laird shipyard for checks and any urgent last-minute work. There is now a battle to ensure the work is completed and the £19m stage in place for the start of September, when a procession of cruise liners are due to visit Liverpool.
But the biggest date is September 21 when the QE2 is to visit the Mersey for the official launch of the new stage as part of the famous vessel’s farewell tour.
It was unclear last night whether the stage would be completed and fully tested by then or by September 2, when the cruise liner Prinsendam is due to tie up alongside.
Story continues...
keep an eye open (even on some of the webcams) the pontoons could be coming across, back from the wirral at some stage over the weekend, predicted date is Monday, but you never know with the weather.
of course *grins* the pontoons wanted to stay over here at Cammel Lairds
but hey, somebodys gotta go back over the water! *g*!
heres a link to a new website (well it says its new)
Mersey docks and Harbour
nice flash vidoes too
http://www.merseydocks.co.uk/
Click on the red writing to enter the site
More about the cruise liner pontoon here
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0...name_page.html
kat:)
thanks kat:PDT11. that'll be a sight won't it, slowly watching that monster being towed over....