P10 first ferry berth starting to be built

The first phase of the Eastern inner embankment works is over now offering the opportunity to start building Calais Port 2015 first ferry P10 berth.

The Eastern inner embankment South part will be P10 Berth rear part, its backfilling will allow access to the pier construction and pile-driving activities.

This pier will be built on piles as the caisson initial design was not considered sufficiently reliable due to the soil nature more unstable there than elsewhere on the site. 68 metal tubes with 1400 mm diameter and 25 up to 39 meter length will be driven into the ground and subsoil by vibration or pile driving. These tubes will support a 80 meter wide and 54 meter depth slab. Tourists on foot will go through this slab to reach the passengers gangway to bridge 8 of the ferry.

According to its size, the ferry will berth on three or four dolphins with 2.5 meter diameter and 45 meter height for each (half of them stuck in the underwater ground) and two spacers along the pier. The port mooring services will use a dedicated linkspan to secure the boat with mooring lines passing over the bollards on 14 dolphins.

Works to begin in June 2017
will continue until early summer 2018.

Linings to avoid scouring will be implemented in 2019 and P10 berth linkspan for vehicules mid 2020. This high capacity double-deck linkspan will allow passenger and freight vehicules to board and unboard the ferry in a very short time.