Associated British Ports

Berthing Information

Dock/Quay
Maximum Size of Vessel

Length Beam Draught DWT

Wet Dock 90 m 13.8 m 5.5 m 2,800

Cliff Quay 155 m No restriction 8.4 m 23,000

West Bank 150 m No restriction 7 m 16,000

Storage & Warehousing

Cliff Quay: Extensive covered storage totalling 67,583 sq m, plus areas available for open storage.
West Bank: Two transit sheds totalling 6,377 sq m, plus areas available for open storage.

Cranage and mechanical handling equipment

A fleet of high-specification forklift trucks and mobile cranes serve all the port�s berths.

Cliff Quay

� Four 10-tonne capacity cranes

� One 15-tonne capacity crane

� One 40-tonne capacity crane

� Two 35.6-tonne capacity rail-mounted gantries

West Bank

� Two 37.5-tonne capacity cranes

� Two 35-tonne capacity straddle carriers

� Three rubber-tyred gantry cranes

� One 45-tonne capacity reach stacker

Specialised facilities

Ro-ro: the West Bank has a ramp 42.4 m long and 16 m wide, with a weight-loading capacity of 180 tonnes

Bulks: Cliff Quay has facilities for the handling and storage of both liquid and dry bulks. An area adjacent to the berth houses 89,000 cu m of petrochemical storage tanks. Both Cliff Quay and West Bank provide facilities for the handling and processing of sea-dredged aggregates