Works on the new Fishing Vessels Port in Montevideo bay, Capurro Port

Starting from 2020, Pilotes Trevi has been involved in the ambitious Works on the new Fishing Vessels Port in Montevideo bay, Capurro Port. The project consists on the construction of a Jetty for operation of fishing vessels and a steel sheet piles shelter for the jetty. The works includes the filling of a retro area of ​​about 3.3 hectares, paving works, drainage, distribution of energy, drinking water and fuel, dredging of the corresponding dock and its final disposal in geo-containers.

TREVI scope of works

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In relation with the construction of new Muelle Capurro Fishing Vessels terminal, Pilotes Trevi has executed 311 piles with a diameter of 1,350 mm and variable lengths between 13 mts and 37.5 mts for the total of 1.000 linear metres of piles.

All the piles were drilled through sedimentary soils, soft clays, Fray Bentos rock formation, gneiss degraded rock and an embedding in hard /competent gneiss rock, from around 0.6 to 1,5 mts per pile.

The piles executed by Pilotes Trevi for the new Muelle Capurro Fishing Vessels terminal in Montevideo Uruguay, has been done following this procedure:

At first stage, the steel Casing of thicknesses 9,5 mm and 1.350 mm of diameter are driven into the ground from a floating barge, with the assistance of an hydraulic vibrator equipment. Next stage is the boring of the pile, made by a Wirth equipment using cutters bits, until the embedment into the hard gneiss rock with a resistance of more than 100 Mpa. Finally, each pile is completed with the cleaning of the perforation “detritus”, installation of the steel Cages and the concrete casting until project level. The works are going ahead with two complete equipment of piling rigs.