Detalhes do Projeto

EXTENSION OF THE OUTER BREAKWATER AND MARITIME ACCESS WAYS OF LEIXÕES PORT

Client: Administração Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo, S.A
Location: Leça da Palmeira – Matosinhos – Portugal
Execution Period: 41 Months

 

The project has 3 different fronts:

Extension of the outer breakwater, over 300 meters, with resource to a conventional structural solution for sloped breakwaters.
Maritime access ways, comprising the deepening of the access canal and of the turning basin by dredging the rocky and loose material, apart from the demolition of the northern mole, over an length of 80 meters and repositioning its head further back. Repair of the technical gutter, between the rooting of the outer breakwater and A Station, an organ dedicated to the passage of pipes of the Leixões Oil Terminal (TPL).

Dredging: 3 044 843 m3
Rockfill: 599 303 m3
“Antifer” Blocks 680 kN: 3 559 units
“Antifer” Blocks 800 kN: 2 472 units
“Antifer” Blocks 400 kN: 186 units
Concrete: 182 188 m3
Demolitions: 13 595 m3
Reuse of existing rockfill: 1 393 m3