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THE PORT OF MISURATA - The Mediterranean Sea, Libya

Construction information


Designer: "Rendal", "Palmer", "Triton" -London; PIM (for sinhrolift) 
Employer: General Ports and Lights Administration - GIPLA for: Secretariat of the peoples committee for communication)
Main Contractor: "Ivan Milutinovic" - PIM
Main Sub-contractors: "Novogradnja" (buildings within the port; GOSA (steel halls for warehouses)
Purpose of the Project: Port for Goods Traffic within which the following has been built: sinhrolift 5,500 t capacity, port for crude oil loading and unloading, port for smaller ships, fish port with a complete equipment for fish processing
Years of Construction: I phase: 1973-1978; II phase: 1984-?
  

Project information

 
IVAN MILUTINOVIC - PIM constructed the entire port in two phases:

PHASE I:
- two jetties (northern and eastern) of the total length 3 km; 
- six deep water berths made of concrete blocks for reloading and transfer bulk cargo, the founding depth was at the level of 12 m and the total length 1,100 m;
- dredging in sand, sandstone and limestone, total 700,000 m3; - filling of the port, total 1,900,000 m3;
- reinforced concrete piles for the structure foundations, cross section 45x45 cm, total 1,000 m;
- two reloading and transfer halls, warehouse, office buildings, customs, police station, open storage, roads, services, water, rain and foul water sewage, electricity, water tower, cleaner and 
filter, fence and other supporting structures necessary for good functioning of an international goods and cargo port.

PHASE II:
- eleven deep water berths as in the first phase, total length 2,050 m;
- dredging in sand, sandstone and limestone, total 3,800,000 m3
- filling of the port, total 2,000,000 m3;
- reinforced concrete piles for the structure foundations, total 7,000 m3;
- steel piles for the crude oil ring: dia 2,200, bored ... 8 pcs., i=24 m, dia 1,000, bored ... 18 pcs., dia 450, bored ... 8 pcs., i=18 m;
- steel piles for sinhrolift: dia 1,000, bored ... 99 pcs., i=21.0 m, dia 560, bored ... 18 pcs., i=13.5 m;
- five transit halls, two storage halls, office buildings, canteen, workshops and other smaller buildings;
- synchrolift, as a reinforced concrete structure on steel supports; 
- ring for crude oil reloading.
                

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