Swedish hotel floats on SF Marina pontoons When most people think about a building’s foundation, they think reinforced concrete. And with Slottsholmen, a two-story, 33-room hotel on the picturesque town of Västervik, Sweden, they wouldn’t be wrong. Except, instead of being set into bedrock, this structure is actually floating on a custom-engineered pontoon platform [...]
SF Marina completes unusual ferry dock in Rhode Island The new Jamestown Newport Ferry dock at Conanicut Marine Services in Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA needed to meet two important criteria: be creatively shaped to fit into an existing configuration and offer ADA-accessibility to its passengers. Owner Bill Munger turned to SF Marina, the leader [...]
SF Marina continues massive global expansion SF Marina, the market leader in engineered floating concrete breakwaters, docks and waterfront structures, has built and started operations at new manufacturing facilities in Malaysia and Thailand. This is in addition to expanding its production sites in Sweden, the US, and New Zealand. The addition of the [...]
SF Marina builds dock for inductive-charging ferries With limited bridges crossing the Glomma river, the city of Fredrikstad, Norway, has relied heavily on ferries since its founding in 1567. To reduce car traffic and resultant air pollution, it recently made the service free-of-charge and added three new 50-passenger, 15m x 5m electric vessels from [...]
Police dock rebuilt by SF Marina to withstand hard use Working government and municipal docks see heavy use with the more- than-occasional hard hit from vessels. When the police department of Gdańsk, Poland, needed to rebuild its 144m section of Marina Sienna Grobla, it chose the proven durability and reliability of SF Marina. The [...]
With tight timing, SF Marina completes Hyannis Yacht Club A series of storms prompted the Hyannis Yacht Club in Hyannis, Massachusetts, to rebuild its T-head attenuator system and dock walkway array. Having completed the breakwater replacement years earlier, SF Marina recently finalized phase two of the project. With tight timing, it delivered floating concrete [...]
SF Marina builds its largest floating breakwater to date SF Marina has installed its largest floating concrete breakwater using its massive SFBW1000 pontoons. The milestone structure protects Kajen, a new condominium complex in Skärhamn, Sweden. Each SFBW1000 pontoon is 20m L x 8m W x 3m D with a 0.8m freeboard. The Kajen project [...]
SF Marina Systems rebuilds Provincetown, MASS. Marina Known for its fierce weather and aggressive waves, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA is home to the Marina at MacMillan Pier. Unprotected from the elements for years, its structures had deteriorated beyond repair when SF Marina USA was called in to supply a state-of-the-art marina system. The project [...]
800-year old city on the Nile gets SF Marina water taxi docks For 3,000 years, people have plied the Nile River for travel and commerce. In Mansoura, Egypt, the tradition continues, albeit far more modernized. Home to close to one million residents, the metropolitan city recently opened a series of new water taxi docks. [...]
Mason Sears - We’re selling marina protection Mason Sears grew up on the coast of Maine in New England, and prior to joining SF Marina in the USA, where he is now Vice President, Sales and Marketing, he was pursuing everyone’s dream – building a complete marina in the role of Project [...]
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