Acrow Bridge Designs and Installs Permanent Steel Pipe Trestle Bridge for North Carolina State Ports Authority
Acrow Bridge Designs and Installs Permanent Steel Pipe Trestle Bridge for North Carolina State Ports Authority
2 PagesAcrow Bridge Designs and Installs Permanent Steel Pipe T restle Bridge for North Carolina State Ports Authority Fully-customized structure in Wilmington facilitates expanded Panama Canal shipping needs Due to the recent expansion of the Panama Canal, the Cape Fear River at the port of Wilmington, NC needed to be widened to accommodate turning movements of larger vessels. As a result, the existing pipe trestle needed to be abandoned and reconstructed outside the river dredging limits. Acrow’s new structure was designed and constructed as a replacement and expansion of the original piping network to transfer bulk liquids from the tankers to the storage tank farm. The fully- customized bridge carries two levels of pipes as well as a pedestrian/ small vehicle walkway. To accommodate
