Shepherd and Sons Ltd
PURFLEET CONTAINER PORT
Shepherd and Sons
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Shepherd & Son’s worked alongside ISC contracting to line mark CLdN’s Container port in Essex.
Using the Graco Line Lazer and one part epoxy paint we marked…
- 220 lorry bays
- 36 container bays
- Over 450 stencils
- 9 Road ways with centre lines & ‘Give Ways’
- Hatched sections
A terminal is a traffic scheme, not a car park
The quantities give the shape of it: 220 lorry bays, 36 container bays, over 450 stencils, nine roadways with centre lines and give ways, and hatched sections. Those are not decorative. A container terminal moves loaded HGVs and handling plant through the same ground continuously, and the marking is what keeps those two flows apart. A give way in the wrong place on a terminal is a collision waiting for a busy morning.
Setting out before painting
Work of this size starts as a sketch and has to be set out on the ground before a line is laid, because a bay grid that drifts by a few centimetres per bay is a metre out by the end of a row and the last bay does not fit. Setting out is the slow part and the part that decides whether the scheme works.
Why one part epoxy
Port hardstanding is concrete, exposed, and worked by point loads and turning tyres. One part epoxy applied through a Graco Line Lazer gives a hard, thin film that bonds to concrete and takes that scrub, where a thermoplastic laid on concrete tends not to bond reliably and stands proud enough to be picked at by a tyre.
Marking a terminal that does not close
A ro-ro and container terminal runs to vessel calls rather than office hours, so a scheme of this size is marked in sections with the operation continuing around it. Each area is barriered, set out, marked and then left until the film is hard enough to take a loaded trailer, and only then handed back and the next section taken. That sequencing, rather than the painting, is what determines how long a terminal scheme takes, and it is the part worth agreeing with the terminal before anyone quotes a duration.
Who we worked with
Alongside ISC Contracting, for CLdN. This is epoxy line marking in our port sector.
This was epoxy line marking on a container terminal, delivered as part of our port surfacing sector.
