The River System

• Provides unparalleled possibilities for development of inland regions

• Shipping of all descriptions can utilise facilities

• Craneage available

• Strengthened decks for fork lift operations

• Cost effective solution to meet all circumstances

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In countries with few roads, difficult terrain or extreme climate the rivers are often the best means of movement for both goods and people. Flexiport can provide a fully integrated transit and storage system serving the whole country, and is the natural focal point in a national waterway communication network.

Flexiport in a riverside location is likely to be even simpler and quicker to install than the maritime version because there will be less tidal current and more shelter.

In a fully integrated national Flexiport System, bulk imports are discharged and broken down at the maritime port of entry for consignment to riverside Flexiports, each of which is the distribution centre for its region, by smaller barges formed into rafts.

Each regional Flexiport is served by one or more mobile barge bases, which are towed from the port entry to their riverside Flexiport, there the loads are either stored or broken down further for onward movement to final destinations, on river craft or overland.

Similarly, each riverside Flexiport is the collecting point for the region's exports. It is also the ideal goods and passenger ferry terminal, either across or up-river, the regional storehouse and supermarket and if need be a heliport, hospital and administrative centre. The off-shore warehouses simplify arrangements for security and control of stores. Goods can be handled in any form - liquid, bulk or containerised, and craneage and specialised handling equipment for each Flexiport regional distribution centre can be pre-planned during the design stage.

Riverside Flexiports are, like their maritime counterparts, designed to meet their expected loading and are readily expandable, moveable to another location, or installed for permanence.