These are pretty standard and I have no idea why they weren't put in on piers in a channel! (used to work for a highway/bridge contractor way back in the day).
These are pretty standard and I have no idea why they weren't put in on piers in a channel! (used to work for a highway/bridge contractor way back in the day).
Just keep in mind that a container ship of the size of the Dali, moving at speed, would take down fenders, revetments, without an awful lot of engineering work. This was a very big ship with a lot of momentum.
SHIP is 1000 feet long & loaded with 10 layers of cargo containers.
I do NOT see anything in that photo that would stop such a ship.
HOW about we stop building bridges that large shipping ports have to navigate???
THOSE revetments might puncture the hull-—BUT I do NOT see them stopping today’s HUGE container ships.
THEN—a SHIP & entire cargo are IN THE WATER