摘要: |
Along the SE African coastline and close to rich fishing waters, the old fishing harbour of Beira, Mozambique, looked, a decade ago, idle and abandoned. The main reasons for this were: extensive corrosion of the metal parts of the wharfs resulting in very poor physical condition of the piled deepwater quays, high siltation rate rendering non-operative a great part of the dock, the slipway and the associated repair sector, lack of mechanical equipment affecting adversely the efficiency of the operations and the handling of the catch, insufficient utilities infrastructure and inland connections. In the early nineties the 6th European Development Fund of the then European Economic Community funded a project awarded to Doxiadis Associates for the study of the rehabilitation of Beira fishing harbour. This is a medium size port built in Pungue estuary with a total quay length of 945m at nominal depths between 3.20m and 7.75m at LLW, excluding any siltation effects. The fishing vessels required to be harboured amount to 320, most of which are up to 7m long, but there are also several industrial and semi-industrial ships of lengths up to 60m. In order to cope with the sedimentation problem a special study was undertaken, that involved bed sampling and sediment budget analysis. To minimize the siltation problem in the harbour basin a flushing channel was proposed connecting the former to the ocean coast. This proposal was envisioned due to the presence of a natural stream used to flow into the dock in earlier times. A Master Plan was developed for the fishing harbour that addressed issues, such as the general arrangement of berthing spaces, land installations, location of a new passengers and cargo terminal, infrastructure networks. Within this framework first priority works were identified. These included, reconstruction of the deepwater quay, maintenance dredging, upgrading of the slipway and its repair area, building of a new sorting hall, purchasing of quay-side equipment, upgrading of the utility networks. |