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13-694: Seaforth Dock (also known as the Royal Seaforth Dock ) is a purpose-built dock and container terminal , on the River Mersey , England , at Seaforth , to the north of Liverpool . As part of the Port of Liverpool and Liverpool Freeport, it is operated by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company . Situated at the northern end of the dock system, it is connected to Gladstone Dock to the south, which via its lock entrance provides maritime access to Seaforth Dock from

26-518: A dock is an enclosed area of water used for loading, unloading, building or repairing ships . Such a dock may be created by building enclosing harbour walls into an existing natural water space, or by excavation within what would otherwise be dry land. There are specific types of dock structures where the water level is controlled: Where the water level is not controlled berths may be: A dockyard (or shipyard) consists of one or more docks, usually with other structures. In American English , dock

39-559: A dockyard (also known as a shipyard ) where the loading, unloading, building, or repairing of ships occurs. The earliest known docks were those discovered in Wadi al-Jarf , an ancient Egyptian harbor , of Pharaoh Khufu , dating from c.2500 BC located on the Red Sea coast. Archaeologists also discovered anchors and storage jars near the site. A dock from Lothal in India dates from 2400 BC and

52-460: Is also commonly used to refer to wooden or metal structures that extend into the ocean from beaches and are used, for the most part, to accommodate fishing in the ocean without using a boat. In American English , the term for the water area between piers is slip . In the cottage country of Canada and the United States , a dock is a wooden platform built over water, with one end secured to

65-595: Is speculated that Lothal engineers studied tidal movements and their effects on brick-built structures, since the walls are of kiln -burnt bricks. This knowledge also enabled them to select Lothal's location in the first place, as the Gulf of Khambhat has the highest tidal amplitude and ships can be sluiced through flow tides in the river estuary . The engineers built a trapezoidal structure, with north–south arms of average 21.8 metres (71.5 ft), and east–west arms of 37 metres (121 ft). In British English ,

78-460: Is technically synonymous with pier or wharf —any human-made structure in the water intended for people to be on. However, in modern use, pier is generally used to refer to structures originally intended for industrial use, such as seafood processing or shipping , and more recently for cruise ships , and dock is used for almost everything else, often with a qualifier, such as ferry dock , swimming dock, ore dock and others. However, pier

91-508: The dock estate would be upgraded to double track from single track to increase capacity to the port. Combined with improved signalling at Earlestown , the improvements will enable up to 48 trains a day to enter the port. Work on the line is expected to be completed by 2019. Liverpool2 is a Post-Panamax container terminal extension which opened in November 2016 as an expansion to Seaforth dock. Dock (maritime) "Dock" may also refer to

104-588: The river wall for a total nameplate capacity of 3.6 MW . Seaforth Dock is served by one rail line, the Canada Dock branch line. The Olive Mount rail chord at Edge Hill junction was re-opened early 2009 to increase the throughput of the service to Seaforth Dock, giving direct access for freight from the Port of Liverpool to the West Coast Main Line . In May 2016 it was announced that the line's final section into

117-518: The river. Despite planning permission having been obtained almost sixty years previously, work commenced during the 1960s on Liverpool's largest dock facility. In part the work was intended to reconstruct or compensate for damage suffered during World War II. The dock was the largest built in the United Kingdom for some time, with 10,000 ft (3,000 m) of quay and a depth of 50 ft (15 m) and world's largest lock gates. Opened in 1971,

130-500: The shore. The platform is used for the boarding and offloading of small boats. Gulf of Khambhat The Gulf of Khambhat , also known as the Gulf of Cambay , is a bay on the Arabian Sea coast of India , bordering the state of Gujarat just north of Mumbai and Diu Island . The Gulf of Khambhat is about 200 km (120 mi) long, about 20 km (12 mi) wide in the north and up to 70 km (43 mi) wide in

143-587: The site consists of about 500 acres (2.0 km), of which 85 acres (34 ha) is water. Technological changes, such as containerization, caused the loss of numerous jobs on the docks. In the 21st century, the dock handles mainly containers, oils, timber , fruit and vegetables, grain and animal feed . The dock became a free port in 1984. A fruit and vegetable terminal opened at the dock in 2008. The terminal primarily received produce from Spain . However, this facility closed in 2013. In 1999, Peel Energy installed six Vestas V44-600 kW wind turbines along

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156-694: The south. Major rivers draining Gujarat are the Narmada , Tapti , Mahi and the Sabarmati , that form estuaries in the gulf. It divides the Kathiawar Peninsula from the south-eastern part of Gujarat. There are plans to construct a 30-kilometre (19 mi) dam, Kalpasar Project , across the gulf. To the west of the Gulf, Asiatic lions inhabit the Gir Forest National Park and its surroundings,

169-431: Was located away from the main current to avoid deposition of silt . Modern oceanographers have observed that the ancient Harappans must have possessed great knowledge relating to tides in order to build such a dock on the ever-shifting course of the Sabarmati , as well as exemplary hydrography and maritime engineering . This is the earliest known dock found in the world equipped to berth and service ships. It

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