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Floating Breakwater – Taiwan

Floating Breakwater – another work of art in Taiwan crafted by Walcon Marine Australia

Since two wellknown projects delivered in Taiwan (one smoothly installed in Kaohsiung in 2022 and the other successfully delivered in Anping in 2023), Walcon won the third Marina Construction Project in Taichung, Taiwan in March 2024.

This Marina Project in Taichung includes a 6meterwide, 132meterlength floating breakwater and fortynine aluminium heavyduty berths, consisting of one berth for 70meter luxury sightseeing yacht, one berth for 45meter luxury yacht, twentythree berths for 25meter luxury yachts, and remaining twentyfour berths for less than 25meter yachts.

The highlight of this Project is the adoption of WALCON ASTRA’s semiflexible connection. This is the device to obtain the best wave protection, as well as to protect the breakwater itself from the wave effect. Moreover, the berth uses WALCON HEAVY DUTY’s doubleslot aluminium alloy as the main beam. The mooring bollards and pile guides can also be flexibly moved and displaced, providing a convenient and fast installation method. The tidal range of this project is approximately 6 meters thus a 25meter gangway is applied.

The breakwater will be manufactured in WMA’s Chinese factory and shipped to the site by flat container by sea. Remarkably, this is the first time that WMA uses a standardized indoor method to produce floating breakwater, because indoor production provides a modular production method and flow line production process for the product. Effectiveness and efficiency can therefore be maximized through this standardization. Let’s wait and see how the successful completion of this Project will mark another great work of art in Taiwan and the human ingenuity displayed by Walcon Marine Australia!