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Port berths will be lengthened for LD Lines' ferry
Portsmouth's port is to be restructured to accommodate LD Lines' new ferry.
The 186 metre, 800-passenger Norman Voyager is set come into service in early November - but is longer than any ferries currently in service at the port.
Extra capacity of to up to 50 metres is planned for two of the harbour's four berths, lengthening them to around 200 metres, and allowing them to cater for much bigger ships.
The move is expected to cost around £1m, but Portsmouth City Council, which controls the port, said it will easily recoup the spending with the extra revenue from The Norman Voyager and other supersize ships.
Phil Gadd, Portsmouth Ferry Port manager, said: 'It's like anything, if you don't invest, you don't attract new business.
'What's happening is ships are getting bigger.
'We need this lengthening process to get longer vessels into the berth.
'It's good news from our point of view because it is a real business need.
'It's an economy of scale taking things across the channel now, and other ports are doing a similar sort of thing.'
The development means the building of an additional 10-metre wide, 25-metre deep dolphin - a steel or concrete island, driven deep into the seabed and connected to the dock by a walkway, capable of taking the weight of the 25,000-plus tonne vessel.
Ropes will tether the bow to the dolphin to prevent the ship from drifting.
The extra capacity was approved by Portsmouth City Council's executive on July 7, and will benefit berths three and four.
Contracts for the work will go out to tender in August, and work is expected to be completed by Easter.
In the meantime the Norman Voyager will use 'interim measures' to tether itself to the berth.
Extra capacity of to up to 50 metres is planned for two of the harbour's four berths, lengthening them to around 200 metres, and allowing them to cater for much bigger ships.
The move is expected to cost around £1m, but Portsmouth City Council, which controls the port, said it will easily recoup the spending with the extra revenue from The Norman Voyager and other supersize ships.
Phil Gadd, Portsmouth Ferry Port manager, said: 'It's like anything, if you don't invest, you don't attract new business.
'What's happening is ships are getting bigger.
'We need this lengthening process to get longer vessels into the berth.
'It's good news from our point of view because it is a real business need.
'It's an economy of scale taking things across the channel now, and other ports are doing a similar sort of thing.'
The development means the building of an additional 10-metre wide, 25-metre deep dolphin - a steel or concrete island, driven deep into the seabed and connected to the dock by a walkway, capable of taking the weight of the 25,000-plus tonne vessel.
Ropes will tether the bow to the dolphin to prevent the ship from drifting.
The extra capacity was approved by Portsmouth City Council's executive on July 7, and will benefit berths three and four.
Contracts for the work will go out to tender in August, and work is expected to be completed by Easter.
In the meantime the Norman Voyager will use 'interim measures' to tether itself to the berth.
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