Ports & Marinas.

Access Over Water, Around The Tide.

Ports & Marinas

Port and marina structures sit over water, under constant load and in the most corrosive environment in the UK, and a scaffold rarely reaches them.

Think Access provides rope access and working at height services to port operators, harbour authorities, marina owners and the contractors who work for them, delivering inspection, concrete repair, coatings, steelwork and cleaning over water without barges, floating platforms or scaffold.

We have carried out over-water concrete repair and protective coating works at a West London dock marina, structural bolt replacement on a major jetty, and cable pull support inside working ports on the east coast. We plan around tidal windows, berth schedules and permit systems, and clients bring us back for the later phases.

What We Deliver

Rope access over water, inspection and repair in the same visit, and one accountable partner from survey through to sign off.

Rope access technician inspecting a jetty and berthing structure over water

Jetty, Quay & Berth Inspection

Close visual and hands-on inspection of jetties, quay walls, dolphins and berthing structures, reaching splash zone and soffit areas that boat and platform surveys cannot.

Jetty, Quay & Berth Inspection

Rope access technician carrying out over-water concrete repair to a quay wall

Concrete Repair & Maintenance

Over-water concrete repair, repointing and patch repairs to quay walls, jetty decks and marina structures, carried out from ropes with no barge or scaffold required.

Concrete Repair & Maintenance

Rope access technician spraying protective coating onto a marine steel pile

Corrosion Protection & Coatings

Surface preparation and protective coating systems for steelwork in the splash and atmospheric zones, specified for marine exposure and matched to the existing finish.

Corrosion Protection & Coatings

Rope access technician welding steelwork on a port structure

Steelwork Repair & Installation

Structural bolting, bracing, stub replacement and steel installation on jetties, gantries and terminal structures where platforms and MEWPs cannot be positioned.

Steelwork Repair & Installation

Ship-to-shore crane and gantry maintenance at a container terminal

Crane & Gantry Maintenance

Greasing, earthing, inspection and mechanical support on ship-to-shore cranes, gantries and conveyor structures, planned to keep downtime to the shortest possible window.

Crane & Gantry Maintenance

Maintenance of jetty lighting and electrical installations at a port

Lighting & Electrical Installations

Installation and maintenance of floodlight masts, navigation and obstruction lighting and cable runs at height across terminals, towers and jetty structures.

Lighting & Electrical Installations

Rope access technician descending into a confined space on harness and lifeline

Confined Space Entry

Entry, cleaning, inspection and repair inside tanks, chain lockers, silos, culverts and voids, under a written rescue plan with our own equipped rescue team on standby.

Confined Space Entry

Rope access technician carrying out high level cleaning at a dockside

High Level & Industrial Cleaning

Washdown and high level cleaning of terminal buildings, silos, cranes and cladding, removing the salt, dust and product residue that accelerates corrosion.

High Level & Industrial Cleaning

Standby Rescue Cover

IRATA-qualified rescue teams providing standby cover while your own crews work at height or enter confined spaces on port, terminal and harbour sites.

Standby Rescue Cover

Roofing and cladding repairs to a waterside building by rope access

Roofing & Cladding

Repair, replacement and remedial works to roofs, cladding and gutters on terminal sheds, warehouses and workshops, with no scaffold around a live operational building.

Roofing & Cladding

Why us

We plan around tides and vessel movements, mobilise UK wide, and take on inspection, repair, coating and cleaning under one appointment.

The Challenges We Understand

Select a challenge to see how we address it.

F.A.Q’s

Yes. For most inspection, concrete repair, coating and bolting scopes our technicians rig from the structure itself and work suspended over the water, with no marine plant required. Where a scope genuinely needs a barge or platform we will tell you at survey stage rather than after mobilisation.

Yes. Every job is planned against the tide table and the berth or pontoon schedule, and the method statement is built around the working windows actually available. On live terminals we work to the port permit system and coordinate daily with the harbour master or marina office.

Yes. Think Access holds Constructionline Gold accreditation, carries full RAMS and insurance documentation, and every technician is IRATA certified with over-water rescue provision in place on site. Our supervisors are experienced working inside principal contractor and port authority permit regimes.

Jetties, finger piers and dolphins, quay walls and berth faces, ship-to-shore cranes and gantries, terminal silos and storage tanks, floodlight and radar masts, terminal sheds and workshops, lock gates and marina pontoon structures. If it is hard to reach and sits over or beside water, it is the sort of work we do.