The council said the new fendering should "significantly cut vibration and impact noise from the ferry operations for those residents bordering slipways".

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The workers, some wearing only plastic sandals, deftly make their way along narrow, five-meter high concrete platforms that divide the slipways and cranes that keep the vessels steady while they're being built.

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