Grain Discharging Plant

Common User Pipeline Scheme (Page 40).

When completed this scheme will provide three 10", two 8" and two 6" pipelines at the Eastern Oil Jetty, and six 10", one 8"^ and two 6" pipelines at the Western Jetty. By means of a system of pumps, valves and junctions, the cargoes of tankers berthed at the oil jetties can be pumped through these pipelines to the storage installations of any of the Oil Companies.

Grain Discharging Plant (See picture on page 47).

A modern pneumatic discharge plant at Alexandra Quay, owned by the Merchants’ Warehousing Company Limited, enables bulk grain cargoes to be discharged from ships’ holds by suction pipes and thence by means of overhead conveyors to the Company’s nearby grain silos at a rate of 225 tons per hour. Warehousing (Pages 48, 50, 55, 56 and 57).

The Beard maintains as an auxiliary service to the Port a warehousing department which has its headquarters in the Custom House Docks, and is the largest warehousing organisation in the country. Almost all the tea and tobacco consumed in the country, and a large proportion of the wines and spirits, are warehoused by the Board. In addition to the main service of storage, the Department provides additional services including sorting, weighing, blending, gauging, racking, bottling, packing, etc., and has a modern motor transport fleet for speedy collection and delivery of goods warehoused.

A 4-storey warehouse, known as Stack D and situated between Alexandra Quay and Alexandra Road, provides almost six acres of warehousing space close to deepwater berthage.

A new warehouse, known as Stack ‘L’ and situated in the Custom House Docks premises, was completed in 1958. It provides 3 acres of storage which would for example enable 20,000 casks of tobacco to be warehoused under bond.

Ferry Ramp

Two outstanding features of modern sea transport have been the development of the container system and of the “roll on—roll off” ferryship. Together they enable goods to be transported on lorries or trailers from consignor to consignee without intermediate handling. A new ferry ramp and berth have been constructed at the north-east corner of Ocean Pier to accommodate this type of traffic (Picture appears on page 58).

Cranes and Mechanical Handling Equipment (Pages 60, 61 and 62).

With the exception of berths in the wet docks, certain berths specifically allocated to the cross-channel services and the oil jetties, all berths at Dublin are equipped with modern 4-ton electric cranes of which there are four at the new Custom House Quay berths, eleven at North Wall and riverside of North Wall Extension, ten on Alexandra Basin side of the

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