Butcher's Coat
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Yes, it could even have been built here in Sunderland using local labour.
Plenty of room at the mouth of the Wear where the dry dock is.
Also the likes of OGN on the Tyne have facilities to do this as well as OSB on the Tees.
New Wear Bridge tower ready for shipping
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Yes, it could even have been built here in Sunderland using local labour.
Plenty of room at the mouth of the Wear where the dry dock is.
Also the likes of OGN on the Tyne have facilities to do this as well as OSB on the Tees.
There's the dry dock at Pallion too. Nearly 200m long iirc and the bridge pylon is only half that.
Falconhoof
Winger
Ocean road eye patch empourium.
Opening soon.
Sepecial offers for locals.
Opening soon.
Sepecial offers for locals.
Still exists.
tooliohelmet
Striker
Looks flat
PinzaC55
Striker
Wouldn't that be against EU anti competition laws ? this is sarcasm before some boring bastard starts going on about it
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lenshack
Guest
World famous, but don't hear much of them now.
Amnorrageordie
Midfield
After bringing it up the a19 in rush hour.
Butcher's Coat
Striker
They cannot open the dock gates as Sunderland Council won't dredge the river that far up.
super-niall
Striker
If I've interpreted the links correctly, they're coming from Belgium.
Well done Sunderland Council.
Aye, Victor Buyck Steel in Eeklo near Ghent.
Parkmaverick
Striker
Tidied
super-niall
Striker
Needs an erection.
Parkmaverick
Striker
Brexit make Britain gr............oh hang on.
It's a public funded development so will have to be tendered out to whoever can deliver it to the best efficiency to the tax payer. Something like that anyway.
Ivor Biggun
Central Defender
If I've interpreted the links correctly, they're coming from Belgium.
Well done Sunderland Council.
Xenophobe living abroad, you couldn't make it up!
ravydavygravy
Striker
It would have been an EU tender but Belgium has a history of ahem helping their industries secure work like this with. Which is totally against the rules....
3000 wind turbines going into the north sea in the next 10 years - paid for by the UK consumer. Pretty much being built anywhere but the UK.
Fuck the EU tbf.
3000 wind turbines going into the north sea in the next 10 years - paid for by the UK consumer. Pretty much being built anywhere but the UK.
Fuck the EU tbf.
vinegar hill
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I'm sure on a promotional video of the bridge before it was built there was images of the structure being made in Pallion and transported the short distance up the river on barges.
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retsop ecivon
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As you weren't in we left it with your neighbour.
I saw them open around 6 years ago when the Manxman was in and they had work on a smaller vessel (Life boat rings a bell).
I assume that can get the barge up the river with the pylon, so it would be localised dredging to create a pocket around the dock gates only.
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