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APRIL 2015
ACT
RIGGING
SITEREPORT
Juilian Leek
reports on the
installation of awalkway at
the Port Canaveral Cruise
Ship terminal.
to assist andhandleother sitework.
Therewas also aTerexT344 aerialwork
platformon theproject.
After assembly someof thewalkway
unitsweighed60,000pounds and
measured50 feet long.
Tandem lift
Oneof themost delicate lifts involved
raisingpart of oneof thewalkways in a
tandem lift, stopping to rest the edgeof
thewalkwayon themain support frame,
detaching the front crane, then re-rigging
the lift cable after itwas threaded though
theupper frame.
Clearancebetween thewalkway
and themain framewas less than1.5
inches on each side, however therewere
mountingplates that protrudedout past
thewalkway. Toovercome this, as the
mountswere 90 feet across from each
other, theBeyel craneoperator on the
front cranemoved thewalkway into the
main frame at 22degrees, and then swung
thewalkway135degrees to let theother
mount clear the frame.
One small snagwas amis-manufactured
componentwhichwas reproduced at
Beyel’smachine shop. Beyel’s ability to
reproduce the component kept theproject
on time.
The twomobilepassenger boarding
walkway/bridges/gangways, themselves
worth$4.14million,werepart of the
overall $110million constructionproject.
PortCanaveral is considering the
constructionof yet another large cruise
terminal in2016.
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n thenext fewyearsFlorida’sPort
Canaveral is expected surpass
Miami as theworld’sbusiest cruise
port. In record construction time,
IveyConstructionofMerritt Island
has constructeda190,000 square-foot
passenger terminal in10monthson the
south sideof the channel for theCanaveral
PortAuthority. Thisnew terminal, known
asCruiseTerminal 1,will be able to
handle theworld’s largest cruise ships. The
primaryuserwill beRoyalCaribbean,
whose cruise liner
Quantumof the Seas
is theworld’s third largest cruise shipand
whichwill beusing the terminal on its
port-of-call stops.
Tohandle the largepassenger count, the
new terminal needed amovablewalkway
to access the larger ships’ length and
varyingpassenger door heights. Swedish-
basedFMT-AircraftGateSupport Systems
was taskedwith thedesign, build and
installationof the twomassivewalkways.
After arrivingby ship fromSweden,
the containerswere staged at anon-site
construction area right next to thenew
terminal. Beyel Bros. Crane andRigging,
a local familyowned crane company
located inBrevardCounty justmiles from
theport,was contracted for the lifting
project.
A team fromFMT spent amonth in the
Florida sunshine erecting thewalkways
under thedirectionof Beyel Bros. Crane
andRigging,whichhandled thedelicate
installation job.
Beyel Bros. dispatched three cranes
to the jobsite, aLink-BeltHTC-8690
and aLiebherrLTM-1080 tohandle the
main lifts plus aGrove 9120 truck crane
Installing a
cruise ship
walkway
Beyel Bros. used
three cranes for
the project, a Link-
Belt HTC-8690 and
a Liebherr LTM-
1080 to handle
themain lifts plus
a Grove 9120 to
handle other site
work.
