Gangway Overview
GLEN access Technology is an expert in China at designing and fabricating client specific ship-to-shore access equipment with telescopic gangways, lift platforms, stores cranes and fire monitor columns, which provide a safe passage from ship to shore for the crew of all types of vessels in the petrochemical industry.
The crew access gangway is typically a hydraulically operated, telescoping gangway structure. The total structure includes:
- A main superstructure tower or frame which allows the telescoping gangway to be elevated to different levels, also support for any fixed ladders or Stairways
- Main superstructure-Mild steel
- Telescoping walkway -aluminiumalloy
- Hydraulics-steel pump core, stainless fittings and components
- Gangway movements
- Luffing(no more than ± 30°)
- Telescoping gangway
- Slewing
- Elevating movements to b controlled via the main structural frame
- Design pedestrian live loading to be 2.5kPa
- Hydraulic controls for either manual or automatic(free- flow) operation
- Power, cabling and connections
- Tie downs on the loading platform for the gangway in a stowed position
- Electrical supply suitably compliant for hazardous zones and GLEN offer IECEx, ATEX, UL and GOST certified components throughout our product range