For the first time in over 25 years the dry dock facility at Kishorn Port near Lochcarron in Wester Ross has been fully opened to the sea to allow a shipping vessel into the dock. This marks the start of a new chapter in the life of the dry dock, one of the largest in Europe.
In the early hours of Tuesday 5 May 2020, one of the 13,000-tonne dry dock gates was eased from its base and towed out into Loch Kishorn for temporary mooring. The operation was completed following a week of detailed preparatory work to ready the gate for its move, which included removing the large gate seals which keep the dock dry; flooding the dock and pumping of water from inside the gate structure itself to allow it to float. Read more…
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