Work continues on the west side of Port Saint John on the modernization project. The first of eight caissons are being poured for a new wharf. (photo by Tamara Steele)
Key building blocks for a new wharf on the west side of Port Saint John are taking shape.
Port Saint John CEO Jim Quinn said the first of eight massive concrete caissons have been filled during a continuous pour.
Quinn said the first one was floated off the submersible barge and filled alongside the dock.
“They have already started the second one on the floating barge so they are getting into the rhythm now after the initial set up and everything. So that’s exciting. We are building eight, eight-storey buildings over the next three months,” Quinn said.
He said the pipes or piles required for the project have arrived from Turkey.
“These pipes are 130 feet long. They have got five of them. They have to use pile drives to get them down into the rock. They will continue to work on them while they get the others one set to go,” Quinn said.
Quinn described the overall project as having three phases.
“We are doing the first phase now and we will have set it up so that those who follow will be in a position operationally, financially and from an engineering structural point of view to proceed with the middle section of that wharf,” Quinn said.
Quinn says the new wharf will be completed sometime by the end of next year or early 2022.
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