DHB and the western docks revival..

• Gary39

  • Registered: 7 Jul 2017
  • Posts: 454
  23 February 2020     15:04361440
  #1      
  Any news on when it will be finished and the employment of 400 people..
  
  Also what has happened at the new cargo terminal.. I do not see many ships unloading..
• Dover Pilot

  • Registered: 28 Jul 2018
  • Posts: 350
  23 February 2020     19:35361448
  #2      
  A while yet as they still haven't started on the bars, restaurants and cafe's that were promised if we backed the dredging of the Goodwins.
• PatrickS

  • Location: Marine Parade, Dover
  • Registered: 19 Sep 2015
  • Posts: 448
  12 May 2020     23:38362720
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  Busy day in the Port. P&O Cruise Liner 'Aurora' arrived around 7am from Weymouth berthing on Cruise 2.
  Shortly after the 'Pacific Reefer' arrived from Peru on one of the regular reefer runs part discharging into the new Cargo Terminal before departing for Vlissingen.
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  Meanwhile laying off the Western Entrance was general cargo vessel 'Panda' and the regular rock barge 'Liamare' with its cargo destined for sea defence work at Jurys Gap.
  Both berthed at the Cargo Terminal quay (WD5) after the reefer left. The 'Panda' had been anchored the western side of Dungeness for some days waiting to load rape seed.
  

  

  
  
  Next in was the self-discharging bulker 'Yoeman Bank'
  

  

  
  
  bringing a cargo of aggregate from Oban. It wasted no time in discharging onto WD4. I counted 7 hatches so plenty to pile up on the quay.
  

  

  
  
  Looks like 'back to work' has arrived. Good to see activity again.
  
  To round off P&O Cruise Liner 'Aurora' departed back to Weymouth this afternoon and the 'Arcadia' is due in tomorrow (13th) early hours. She was last here on 6th May when this photograph was taken
  

  
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• PatrickS

  • Location: Marine Parade, Dover
  • Registered: 19 Sep 2015
  • Posts: 448
  16 May 2020     15:18362745
  #4      
  Another new arrival today for discharge into the Western Docks Cargo Terminal.
  Cool Carriers Reefer ‘CROWN GARNET’ carrying apples and pears. This first time caller is not from the regular Peru and Caribbean runs but from Durban, South Africa. She arrived in the early hours of Saturday (16th) and departed after lunch in this shot bound for Rotterdam.
  
  

  
• John Buckley

  • Registered: 6 Oct 2013
  • Posts: 615
  16 May 2020     20:12362753
  #5      
  Great photos, thanks Patrick!