South Australian company Bowhill Engineering has been awarded the contract to construct two steel River Murray ferry hulls. Bowhill Engineering is a family owned business which specialises in heavy and complex structural steel manufacturing, located at Bowhill, approximately 50 kilometres from Murray Bridge. This is the first stage of a $6.1 million project to replace two ageing timber-hulled ferries. Ferries play an important role in the day-to-day lives of river communities, and this investment means the ferry service will be more reliable as the steel-hulled ferries require less maintenance. When completed, the two new steel-hulled ferries will replace two ageing timber-hulled ferries currently in service and will be rotated between various local Murray River crossings such as Cadell, Lyrup and Purnong. After an extensive fit-out at the State’s Morgan Dockyard, the first of the new steel-hulled ferries is expected to go into service by December 2015 followed by the second in April 2016. The current ferry fleet currently consist of 14 ferries including nine steel-hulled vessels – the two new steel-hulled ferries will bring the total to 11.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:31:10 +0000
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