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Stefanutti Stocks Marine is a significant player in the marine civil engineering market in South Africa and Africa. By Ian Armitage
tefanutti Stocks Marine (formerly Civil & Coastal Construction) needs little introduction. It is a significant player in the marine civil engineering market in Africa and is a division of the Johannesburg-listed Stefanutti Stocks Group. “Being part of the group has enabled us to take a big step forward,” says Simon Allen, managing director at Cape Town-based Stefanutti Stocks Marine, who recently talked to South Africa Magazine. “The original business, Civil & Coastal Construction, had reached a point where the projects it had were too big for a two-man business to take on. We needed a big brother. Someone to help with our methodology, systems and technical and commercial infrastructure.” It was Stefanutti Stocks that took up the offer. It was the perfect match, says Allen, and the marriage has led to major changes that he feels “needed to happen”. When he joined Civil & Coastal Construction in 1994, it was a company that looked upon an R50,000 project as “significant work”. Today, as Stefanutti Stocks Marine, it operates on projects over R1 billion. “We are a one-stop design and civil engineering construction contractor and have delivered successful solutions not just here in South Africa but also across the continent.” www.southafricamag.com
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The firm has worked on a number of blockbuster projects in South Africa and Africa, one of its biggest to date being in Cape Town’s Table Bay Harbour, widening and deepening the Ben Schoeman dock. “That project is worth R1.25 billion,” Allen says. Stefanutti also worked on the reconfiguration of Quays 1, 2 and 3 in Walvis Bay Harbour, Namibia, and it is currently doing a lot of work in the Port of Durban, the largest container terminal in the Southern Hemisphere. Transnet National Ports Authority, which is responsible for managing and governing Port of Durban, has at any one time between 40 and 60 projects worth billions of rand underway at the port and in this fiscal year alone R770 million is being spent on infrastructural development projects. “Stefanutti Stocks Marine has captured three contracts in the port of Durban, all for the reconstruction of existing berths using a combination of sheet piles, tubular and king piles installed by ICE and PTC vibrators,” says Jolanda Burggraaf, Snr Site Engineer. “The harbour handles the greatest volume of all the ports in southern Africa, a total of around 5,000 ships which is about 40 percent of the ships calling at all South African ports. Our reconstruction will increase the capacity of these berths by stabilising the existing quay structure and increasing the berths’ widths towards the water.” 4
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OVERALL SCOPE OF STEFANUTTI’S WORKS AT PORT OF DURBAN ISLAND VIEW BERTH 2 Supply and install 65 tubular steel piles, reinforced concrete filled, 10% raked at 1:4 Supply and install 60m sheet piles Rock fill Dredge 8,000m3 Supply and install scour protection
ISLAND VIEW BERTH 5 Supply and install 32 tubular steel piles, reinforced concrete filled, all vertical Install 230m sheet piles (sheets free issue from client) Rock fill Dredge 10,000m3 Supply and install scour protection Construct 18m span reinforced concrete deck superstructure including fire protection, stormwater and catchment chambers plus supply and install quay furniture
MAYDON WHARF BERTH 12 Supply and install 267m sheet piles with anchor wall and tie rods Demolish existing quay and reconstruct layerwork and paving Rock fill Dredge 20,000m3 Construct reinforced concrete cope beam, deck and quay furniture
The contracts concern Island View Berth 2, Island View Berth 5 and Maydon Wharf Berth 12. Work at Island View Berth 5 and Maydon Wharf Berth 12 is underway. The work at Island View Berth 2 is 95 percent completed, says Burggraaf. “The challenge has been that while the work has been happening, the port has been operating at capacity, 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year,” Burggraaf says. “Work at Island View Berth 5 and Maydon Wharf Berth 12 is slower. The start of piling works for both these two contracts was dependent on the availability and delivery of barges on which large cranes are loaded to work off the water, as well as the piles themselves, all being supplied from Europe. In the interim the Maydon Wharf Berth 12 and IV Berth 5 teams worked on submitting method statements and risk assessments in preparation for the main works. Both contracts are now well underway.”
Stefanutti Stocks moved on site on berth 12 in July and the entire project involving berths 12-14 and 1-4 will be complete by July 2016. The area between Maydon Wharf berths 9 and 13 is likely to become a new stand-alone container terminal once the berth deepening is complete. “It is a very big project,” Burggraaf says. Stefanutti Stocks Marine’s many projects have come to fruition because of its determination. Allen says that is borne of a desire to be the best. “We want to be the best marine civil engineering contractor in Africa. There aren’t many specialist marine contractors in this market. Our objective is to be the preferred one-stop shop marine civil engineering contractor in Africa. “We strive for technically challenging projects and carry out both design and construction work.” To learn more about Stefanutti Stocks Marine visit www.stefanuttistocks.com. END www.southafricamag.com
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