Is the Cruise Ship Industry in a growth stage?
Due to the increasing number of cruise ships visiting the Portland port of call this year, Portland Officials have decided to upgrade their Passenger Boarding Systems to a hydraulically adjustable, ADA compliant aluminum system. In all, 70-thousand cruise ship passengers and 22-thousand crew members from 69 ships will visit Portland Harbor this year. Instead of the old gangway system, Portland will now have a boarding solution that is ADA compliant in terms of leveling. Earlier this year Superior Welding and Fabrication, Inc d/b/a Superior Docks in Ellsworth, Maine was awarded the contract to design and build a new ADA compliant passenger boarding system for the 1172 foot Maine State Pier in Portland Maine. They teamed up with Dan McGraw P.E. of Atlantic Engineering in Surry, Maine to design and engineer a custom system that would take into consideration and utilize the attributes of the existing pier. This 200 foot system consists of four mechanical platforms that are arranged to be p
