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LIST OF CONTENTS

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Chapter

1. SUMMARY

1.1

Recommended Scheme

1.8

Costs and Timing

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1.9

Land and Sources of Fill

1.11

Settlement of Reclamation

1.13

Weather Effects

1.15

Maintenance Dredging

1.16

Methods of Operation

1.18

Number of Berths

1.22

Road Traffic

1.23

Land Sale Conditions

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2. INTRODUCTION

Background

The Container Committee

2.1

2.6

2.10

Terms of Reference

2.12

Method of Approach

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3. THE SITE

3.1

Geography

3.5

Geology.

3.9

Tides

3.14

Currents.

4. SITE INVESTIGATIONS

4.1

Sounding Surveys

4.4

Marine Borings

4.6

Geophysical Survey

4.8

Current Survey

4.10

Wave Observation

4.14

Silt Load Measurement

4.16

Borrow Area Investigations

4.19

Test Piles

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5.1

5.3

5. FACTORS AFFECTING DESIGN AND LAYOUT

Practical Limits for Alignment of Berths

Availability of Filling Material

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5.5

Dredging of Berths and Approaches

12

5.7

Area required.

12

5.10

Road Access

13

5.11

Wind

13

5.17

Waves

14

5.35

Currents.

15

5.36

Silting or Scouring.

15

5.39

Desalination Plant

16

5.42

Mass Transport Railway

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