Mott MacDonald appointed design engineer for Southampton container terminal upgrade, UK
Mott MacDonald has been appointed by contractor VolkerStevin as design engineer for the deepening of two berths located in the Western Docks at the Port of Southampton, UK. Together with other port upgrades, the work for Associated British Ports will increase the terminal’s container throughput capacity by enabling future generation container vessels to access the port at all states of tide. Berths 201 and 202 were originally constructed in 1968 and 1973 respectively as the UK’s first dedicated container berths. The existing 600m long quay will be deepened by up to 6m to enable container