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According to the SUEZ web site, at one point Endel was the leader in the French market for sale and rental of scaffolding and shoring equipment althouth they sold some of that business off last year.
The company employs hundreds of workers and did EUR 80 million in 2001.
What I find hard to understand is how such a structure could fail.
I guess I could understand if it was not secured properly to the ship or dock but that should have been easy to spot when it was set in place and witnesses seem to suggest a collapse in the middle.
It's also not clear to me whether it was a "traditional" gangway like the one pictured below that spans the space between the dock and the ship
or was it more of a scaffolding tower like the picture below suggests.
In any event, it looks like the one that collapsed was a replacement gangway that was put in place Friday evening. The original gangway was 3 ft wide and was replaced with the larger 4.5 ft wide gangway to allow more traffic.
Anybody with scaffolding or gangway experience have better information?
Joe at TravelPage.com
Ryndam
quote:Originally posted by Ryndam:...There is more than one access to the ship when she's in the shipyard; usually there is a scaffolding on the dock and a gangway between the scaffolding and the ship.
Is the gangway similar to the ones that cruise ships use when they tie up to a dock rather than a terminal - long metal ramp with rails on the sides and usually secured to the vessel?
If so, I have been on hudreds of those with lots of people and never even thought about it giving way.
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