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Morton Bahamas Limited

Ship Berth Inspection | Inagua, Bahamas
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Damage Leads to Expansion

It started as a basic dive inspection for the Morton Bahamas Limited facility in Inagua, Bahamas. Then, after the S. T. Hudson team completed their initial report, additional damages were sustained including a collapse at part of the facility. In the six years following the initial inspection, S. T. Hudson helped to rebuild the facility, with services including diving inspections, engineering design, and construction management.

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Project Goals

Initially, the goals for the project were to assess the facilities with a dive inspection and offer recommendations for improvement. After damage-causing events, the project goals expanded to getting the facility back in working order.

Assess With Dive Inspections

To get accurate insight into what rehabilitation and repair services would best serve the facility, our in-house diving team performed comprehensive dive inspections.

Repair & Rebuild

Multiple occurrences over the course of a few years caused sustained damage to the facility in Inagua, including damaged ship berths. S. T. Hudson was tasked with getting them back into operating order.

Key Data Points

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Million Pounds

Of Salt Produced Per Year

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Hurricanes

Project Details

As one of the largest salt producers in the world, Inagua is an ideal spot for Morton’s operations. Over a six-year period, three separate events devastated parts of the Morton Bahamas Limited facility. S. T. Hudson was there to perform inspections, develop repair plans, and oversee construction to get Morton Bahamas Limited back in operating order.

Located in beautiful Inagua, Bahamas, the Morton Bahamas Limited facility is an important site for their production operations. This large corporate entity has multiple facilities around the world, so the S. T. Hudson team was pleased to get the opportunity to work with them. They began work with a basic dive inspection that was competitively bid and subsequently won. Getting to the island and navigating within it proved to be logistically complicated: the remote location made it difficult to get there, and local resources are scarce. However, the S. T. Hudson team was up for the challenge. Our in-house dive team performed the initial inspection with no delays or issues and provided Morton Bahamas Limited with a formal report outlining the plan.

Shortly thereafter, a structural collapse and caused damage to part of the facility. The S. T. Hudson team remobilized quickly, going back and assessing the previous inspection to see what additional damages were present and how the plan would have to change. Based on the discoveries, the team created a repair schedule that would allow the facility to continue operations in certain areas while the repairs went on for the compromised areas. One of the bright spots of S. T. Hudson’s services was their ability to be creative with repairs and keep Morton Bahamas Limited operational while designing, bidding, and undertaking construction management with owner’s representation.

Five years after the repairs were initially completed, the Inagua facility sustained new damages. The S. T. Hudson team came back to the scene and reassessed the situation; helped them get them back online as quickly as possible; and then developed a repair schedule for the new facility, again focusing on keeping everything operational as the repairs went on. This presented more of a challenge this time around as the collapses were more significant, but the S. T. Hudson team was able to deliver.

One month after the completion of the repairs, another event occurred. Like the previous events, significant damage was endured. Once again, the S. T. Hudson team responded promptly to develop a repair schedule that got the facility back online.

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