Port Elizabeth New Jersey

Port Newark – Elizabeth Marine Terminal is a major component of the Port of New York and New Jersey. Located on the Newark Bay it serves as the principal container ship facility for goods entering and leaving New York-Newark metropolitan area, and the northeastern quadrant of North America. On August 15, 1962, the Port Authority opened the world’s first container port, Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal. Elizabeth became known as America’s Container Capital. Maher Terminals, LLC operates the portion of the terminal currently under retrofit for foul weather safety systems.
 

It is the largest container port in the eastern United States and the third largest in the country. Container goods typically arrive on container ships through the Narrows and the Kill Van Kull before entering Newark Bay, a shallow body of water which is dredged to accommodate the larger ships.
 

The port facility consists of two main dredged slips and multiple loading cranes. Metal containers are stacked in large arrays visible from the New Jersey Turnpike before being loaded onto rail cars and trucks.
 

Simpson & Brown of Cranford, NJ is providing the Engineering and Maintenance services on the job. They have been hired to test and replace when necessary the anchor hold down cable attach points on the pier that secures the large container cranes waterside in case of extreme weather conditions. The anchors are 2" X 50" High Strength Hurricane Tie-Downs, pictured in photos.
 

KELKEN Construction Systems Keligrout™ is being used in the retrofitting of the hurricane tie downs. This is a reinstall of large anchors that were originally cast in years past and have since failed. Each anchor's design load is 149,000 lbs tensile strength and the total per hurricane attachment is 849,000 lbs. The original anchors were core drilled out, then the holes were scarified with a carbide tipped Kelken provided tool. The holes were then cleaned and the anchors installed with Keligrout or if the hole was too large in diameter Keligrit was used to prevent adhesive shrinking.
 

Keligrout™ is a superior high strength polyester resin anchoring material with guaranteed pullout values exceeding ACI-349-85. Can be used at sub freezing temperatures or in rainy weather. May also be used for under water applications.
 

KELIGRIT™ is a high strength, non-shrink polyester resin anchoring material. The material is particularly useful when anchoring in large diameter holes and sets rapidly in inclement weather. Keligrit™ is highly cost effective.
 

Simpson & Brown Engineer Eric Lahita's reasons for specifiying KELKEN Keligrout as the chemical anchoring product of choice are the cost and time savings realized during the retrofit. www.simpsonandbrown.com
phone: 908-276-2776
 

Keligrout™ Technical Data
Color: Gray
Compressive Strength: (ASTM D695), 17,000PSI
Tensile Strength: (ASTM D638), 5,510PSI
Tensile Modulus: (ASTM D638), 1.14 x 106 PSI
Flexural Modulus: (ASTM D790), 1.06 x 106 PSI
Temperature Range During Installation: 10°f to 110
Temperature Range While in Use: -40°f to 200°f
Open Time: 20 minutes at 70°f, 10 minutes at 80°f, 5 minutes at 90°f …. More Information