Blackstone · BN5 · United Kingdom
Charts for people who still keep a movements book
Content Craftline visits the quay, reads the winter diary as well as the summer one, and returns a bound briefing a harbour committee can pass around a table.
Ask about a harbour study · telephone 07788781919
From the field
Last month we stood at a municipal lock while a coaster waited on a late tug
The occupancy chart later showed a two-hour empty berth that looked, on paper, like spare capacity. On the ground it was a missed lock and a crew that would occupy the wall until the next rise. That is the sort of distinction a harbour activity study is for: not a slogan about marine monitoring, but a record a harbour master can defend in committee.
Principal commission
The harbour activity study
You name the harbour and the question. We gather vessel-call logs, tide tables, and three to five days on the quay. You receive occupancy charts, a narrative of the trades actually using the wall, and a briefing in your own office using your own berth names.
Single-berth municipal harbours start at £4,800. Larger terminals are quoted after we have seen a sample of the log. Night observations are included only when the engagement letter says so.
Also instructed
Shorter readings when the log is already in order
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Berth occupancy review
A shorter reading of who occupies which berth, for how long, and where idle hours cluster around shift changes or lock times.
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Tide-window briefing
A plain-language note on which tide gates actually govern arrivals, bunkering, and lock transits at a named harbour, with charts tied to a season you choose.
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Vessel-call pattern report
A year or season of calls arranged by trade, length overall, and agent, so a harbour can see which trades are thickening and which have quietly thinned.
They spent two mornings with the pilots and one awkward afternoon with the fuel barge operator. The charts matched the complaints I had been hearing, including the Tuesday pinch I had half hoped they would ignore.
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