Extension of Pier No. 6 of the commercial port of Thessaloniki

Design of a 600m quaywall extension of pier No 6 of the commercial port of Thessaloniki. The pier will be used as a container handling as well as bulk loading and unloading terminal. Due to the nature of the seabed substrata, preloading of the foundation area with an artificial embankment is forethought in order to speed up the consolidation process.
The quaywall will be constructed with the use of floating box caissons, which will be manufactured on site. After launching of each concrete caisson at its predetermined position along the quaywall, its cells will be filled with granular material up to the top serving the purpose of preloading the foundation. After all settlements have subsided, the fill will be removed to half the caisson's height and the cells will be sealed with precast concrete slabs.
TRITON is involved with the geotechnical investigation of the complex subsoil conditions and foundation design in a joined venture with companies ADK S.A. and ROGAN and Associates S.A.