BECKETT RANKINE

Beckett Rankine is the specialist marine consulting engineering practice in the UK with broad experience in the development of ports around the world. We design with flair, creating innovative solutions to maximize opportunities for our clients.




The mainstream of Beckett Rankine's activities are:

• Creation of strategies for port development;
• Preparation of port masterplans;
• Design and project supervision of new port and marine facilities;
• Designs for refurbishment and rehabilitation of ports and harbours;
• Coastal defence;
• Floating structures;
• Urban regeneration in marine areas;
• Design of marine leisure facilities.

The history of Beckett Rankine dates back for over a hundred years with the same two families leading the firm since 1888. The firm was incorporated under the present name in 1985.

As a truly independent firm, our advice is not affected by any commercial pressure. Our work is carried out by technical evaluation and appraisal of initial proposals to prepare schemes that give optimum benefit to the Client. Using free and lateral thinking we develop innovative concepts in cases where this benefits our Clients.

To ensure high standards and continuity from inception through to final completion all projects are controlled on a day-to-day basis by Gordon Rankine or Tim Beckett. As directors of the firm they have a combined experience of over fifty years in designing and project managing port, harbour and marine development. They are supported by a technically qualified team of in-house engineers and external advisers who have extensive experience covering a wide range of port operations, planning, construction, economics and shipping. This flexible approach enables us to build our project teams to include selected specialists who are most suited to develop specific critical aspects of the project.

ACTIVITIES

Commercial Ports:
Master plan and port development, design of new berths, quays and jetties, docks, Ro-Ro terminals, fendering.

Leisure Harbours:
Dockside urban regeneration, lock gates, marinas, pontoons, yacht clubs, slipways.

Dredging/Siltation:
Dredging design, land reclamation, dredging supervision and documentation, hydraulic model study supervision.

Site Investigation:
Structural inspection of harbour structures, above and below water.
Hydrographic, geophysical, meteorological, environmental surveys.

Geotechnical:
Quay walls, piling, ground anchors, soil stabilisation, underpinning.

Wave Reduction:
Wave climate assessment, model studies and breakwater design.

Coastal and Flood Defence:
River training structures, coastal flood defence, river barrages.

Passenger Ferry & Vehicular Ro-Ro Facilities:
Design of vehicle and pedestrian bridges, floating and mechanically hoisted linkspans. Development of self docking fast turn-around berths.

Shipping:
Assessment of vessel requirements, particularly relating to state-of-the-art passenger ferries and other specialist craft.

Cargo Handling:
Design and specification of facilities for container handling, dry bulk terminals, oil & gas & liquid bulk, roll-on roll-off and conventional cranage.

Innovation:
Development of individual specialist port solutions using fixed and floating structures. Low cost, effective, low maintenance, state-of -the-art as required.

TYPICAL PROJECTS
UNITED KINGDOM - Extensive modifications to masonry structures, pontoon linkspan and fendering at Heysham ferry port.
Design of a new roll-on, roll-off freight terminal at Shellhaven.
Design of six new state-of-the-art passenger piers on the River Thames.
Design of schemes for regeneration of old docks in London, Portland, Whitehaven, Seaham, Ipswich, Portsmouth and other ports in UK.
Detailed design and supervision of new quay walls using innovative techniques, dredging and refurbishment of dock entrances. Also major refurbishment of 15 dockside cranes, London Docklands.
Feasibility Study for LPG terminal at Shetland Islands.
An innovative solution for expansion of a roll-on, roll-off terminal to enable handling of container vessels, Thames Europort.
Design of quay walls restrained by conventional ties and longest ground anchors in the UK. Also design of linkspan bridge, dredging and fendering for cross channel ferry berth, Port Paving and 4,500m2 cool store, Newhaven.
New terminal for SeaCat and Super SeaCat second generation high speed vehicle and passenger ferries, Folkestone.
Study of breakwater types and configuration to reduce waves for small craft harbour, Falmouth.
Assessment of river transportation and design of jetties for millennium exhibition site, London.
New Quays, underpinning and extension of existing breakwater. Also provision of new moorings and other facilities for small craft, Isles of Scilly.
Ferry Service feasibility study, Bristol Channel.
Hydraulic model studies to examine effects of proposed dredging works. Two new roll-on, roll-off berths, River Medway.
Feasibility study for redevelopment of this major ship building yard as a ship repair yard with other associated industrial uses, Cammell Laird Shipyard.
CHANNEL ISLANDS - Strategy for rehabilitation of 150 year old breakwater, 1km in length at Alderney.
INDIA - Masterplan for a Greenfield port for import of 12mt coal per annum at Krishnapatnam.
Geotechnical advice and masterplanning for future expansion of Dahej jetty, Gujarat.
Design of three new ferry terminals on Gulf of Cambay, Gujarat.
Market study review and analysis of India's ports.
CHINA - Front end engineering design study of new harbour for product tankers and VLCC offshore mooring at Hainan Island.
Review and analysis of ports around the coastline of China.
Study for design of new container port, Nansha.
NIGERIA - Design and supervision of a pioneering 2mt cement import terminal in Onne.
GHANA - Planning and design of container terminal modernisation.
RUSSIA - Masterplan and implementation of new container handlng terminal at Novorossiysk, Black Sea.
Feasibility of expansion of Port Kavkaz to accommodate larger oil tankers, Black Sea
Feasibility study into the expansion of Port Vysotsk into a 12 berth deep water harbour principally for handling of bulk products, Baltic Sea
UKRAINE - Review and feasibility study for oil import terminal including single point mooring and conventional berths.
SEYCHELLES - Design of breakwater.
MALAYSIA - Design of piled foundations and quay wall strengthening for installation of gantry container cranes.
Drainage and Flood Mitigation Master plan, Chukai.
KAZAKHSTAN - Design of a number of marine bases to support oil exploration in the Caspian Sea. Projects include breakwaters, dredging, land reclamation, quay walls and heavy lift facilities.
NORTH KOREA - Planning and design of new container handling facilities and associated infrastructure works.

EXPERIENCE IN
EUROPE & CIS: Albania, Channel Islands, Cyprus, Croatia, France, Greece, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA: Bahrain, Dubai, Egypt, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

AFRICA: Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Tanzania

SOUTH ASIA: India

EAST ASIA: Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, North Korea

PACIFIC: Australia

CARIBBEAN & SOUTH AMERICA: British Guyana, Dominican Republic

OVERSEAS OFFICES
India(Mumbai)

ASSOCIATIONS
The Navigation Association (PIANC)
Central Dredging Association
British Marine Federation
Society for Maritime Industries

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