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Being part of the Design, Project and Construction Management team for the New Barcelona Containers BEST Terminal

NTi was part of the design, project and construction management team for the New Barcelona Port's Containers Terminal, known as BEST (Barcelona-Europe-South Terminal). Our services included project management and PMO services.

Project details

Project
New Barcelona Port's Containers Terminal. BEST (Barcelona-Europe-South Terminal)
Client
Hutchinson Port Holding (through Projects and Facilities Management)
Location
Barcelona Port, Spain
Construction phase
2011 to 2015
Status
In service
Site area
76 ha
Investment
€150M (without cranes)

Our role

NTi was part of the design, project and construction management team, with project management and PMO services.

Quay manoeuvring area and seaside transfer area

  • Wharf 1,440 m long and 93 m wide
  • Two crane beams (landside and seaside), each with one rail, founded on in situ deep piles
  • 11 Super-Post-Panamax wharf cranes operating on the beams, supported by shuttle carriers and reach stackers
  • Tie-downs, stow pins, rail stoppers and electrical supply for the cranes

Stacking area

  • 27 stacking blocks, 325 m long and 26 m wide
  • Service lanes along each block, two of them wider for the internal traffic of the terminal
  • 54 automatic stacking cranes (two per block)
  • Six blocks for refrigerated containers, each with two dedicated electrical substations
  • Specific stacking area for out-of-gauge containers

Movement manoeuvring area and landside transfer area

  • Main road for internal traffic
  • Petrol station and washing area for terminal vehicles, with hydrocarbon separators
  • Parking area for shuttle carriers, 140 m long
  • Drainage channel divided into four cells of 4.3 × 2.2 m each
  • Electrical supply at 25 kV through a double MV ring, with two main substations (25 kV to 15 kV) and 16 further substations (15 kV to 0.4 kV)
  • Potable water supply and distribution network
  • Fire-fighting system, including supply and pumping station

Railyard

  • Eight rail tracks with double gauge (European and Iberian)
  • Usable track length between 798 m and 887 m
  • One track embedded in a 750 m concrete platform; the rest on 25 cm thick ballast
  • Connections with the Barcelona Port Authority rail system
  • Gantry cranes operating over the eight tracks
  • Precast concrete sleepers type AM-05 with elastic rail fastenings
  • Rails type 60 E1 with aluminothermic welding
  • Switch-tracks type DMMI-UIC60-190/180-0.13-CR
  • Centralised traffic control

Access and services area

  • Access through canopies
  • Buffer parking for trucks
  • Truck drivers' services building
  • Optical character recognition area for truck number plates
  • Building for the frontier police (Guardia Civil)
  • 10 analogue weighbridges
  • Office building with parking area
  • Parking building
  • Workshop building

Photo gallery

Construction works on the quay wharf, with a dump truck placing concrete and red wharf cranes in the background
Cross-section drawing of the quay manoeuvring and seaside transfer area, Section A-A
Drainage cross-section drawing of the automatic stacking crane stacks
Container stacking area with blue gantry cranes numbered 17L, 17W and 16L and truck lanes at the entrance
Movement area under construction, with concrete slabs, a concrete pump, container trucks and a row of numbered stacking lanes
Pavement cross-section drawings, Sections A-A and B-B
Pavement cross-section drawings, Sections C-C and D-D
Longitudinal railyard drawing showing the eight tracks and their dimensions
Railyard with a concrete platform and wagons on the tracks
Railyard tracks and service area viewed from an elevated position
Railyard cross-section drawings, Sections A-A and B-B, showing rails, sleepers and ballast
Railyard rail connections with curved tracks, containers on wagons and the surrounding port area
Office building under construction with a steel and concrete frame
Large industrial building with the TERCAT logo and adjoining site cabins
Single-storey building on the quay with the port gantry cranes visible behind it
Foundation excavations and reinforcement works on the site, with an excavator working among the pits
Access layout drawing with a roundabout, access road and parking area

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