Marine Loading

SafeRack is the #1 Selling Gangway in North America

SafeRack’s MarinaStep barge access and ship access gangways are advanced, corrosion-resistant aluminum marine gangways that are designed for code-compliant worker safety, durability, and reliability in marine environments and are built to order to your required length and specifications that are built to last.

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Marine Loading and Unloading Systems

A full range of products and services of Fluid Transfer Systems, Hose Handling Systems, Tandem Mooring Systems, Large Bore Flexible Hose Systems, Marine Coupling Systems, and Loading Platforms.

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Marine Loading

Self Adjusting Stair
Gangway System

MarinaStep’s self-adjusting stairs are built to the highest quality and allow for operating in aggressive angles to provide safe access from ship to shore. This style is a perfect solution to reach both short and intermediate distances, providing a slip-resistance and level step for users along the entire length of the gangway.

Self Adjusting Stair Gangway

MarinaStep’s Self-Adjusting Stairs are built to the highest quality and allow for operating in aggressive angles to provide safe access from ship to shore. This style is a perfect solution to reach both short and intermediate distances, providing a slip-resistance and level step for users along the entire length of the gangway.

Width Range

2′ – 5′

Max Length

20′

Loads

500 lbs

Platform

Required

Operational Angle


No Cleats: 20°

Cleats: 30°

Rotation

Available if attached to a platform

Power Options
  • Lifting Lugs for Existing Crane
  • Counterbalanced Springs 
  • EZ-Lift Pully System 
  • Hydraulic Cylinders
  • Pneumatic Cylinders
  • Winch System

† Size-dependent

Walk Surface

SAS Stairs

End Treads
  • None
  • 70° Ship Ladder
  • 45° Access Steps
Vessels

Boat

Ship

Barge

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Truss Gangway System

The Truss Series uses a rugged U-body con-struction to provide a live load capacity of 750 pounds and can be constructed to accommodate even higher load capacities, allowing for up to 80 feet in length.

Features
Multiple wheel options

Choose from omni-directional swivel casters, fixed hard wheels, fixed pneumatic wheels, or a dock roller. Other options can be added to any design as needed.

Configured for your application

Available ship’s ladder or tripod stairs for fixed utilization. Fixed, mobile, or standalone applications.

Variety of sizes

Available up to 80’ span in length and a variety of widths. Special-purpose gangways exceeding those measurements can also be built.

Variety of walk surfaces

Options include a flat ramp with cleated or bare stamped aggressive tread or diamond stamped or extruded curved tread.

Truss Gangway

The Truss Series uses a rugged U-body construction to provide a live load capacity of 750 pounds and can be constructed to accommodate even higher load capacities, allowing for up to 80 feet in length.

Width Range

2′ – 5′

Max Length

80′

Loads

750 lbs

Platform

Available

Operational Angle

No Cleats: 20°

With cleats: 30°

Curved Treads: 45°

Rotation

Available if attached to a platform

Power Options

If freestanding:

  • Manual lift
  • Lifting Lugs for Existing Crane

If attached to platform:

  • EZ-Lift Pully System †
  • Counterbalanced Springs†
  • Hydraulic Cylinders
  • Pneumatic Cylinders
  • Winch System

† Size-dependent

Walk Surface

Stamped
Optional Cleats

Bar Grating
Optional Cleats

Curved Treads

End Treads
  • None
  • A-frame
  • L-frame
Vessels

Boat

Ship

Barge

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Stage Gangway System

Our SG series aluminum stage gangways for barge and ship access use a rugged U-body construction to provide a live load capacity of 750 pounds and can be custom constructed to accommodate even higher load capacities. 

Stage Gangway

The Stage Series allows for up to 20 feet in length, providing a design that offers a lighter and more maneuverable gangway, but made
from the same durable materials as the more robust Truss Series.

Width Range

2′ – 5′

Max Length

20′

Loads

750 lbs

Platform

Available

Operational Angle


No Cleats: 20°

Cleats: 30°

Rotation

Available if attached to a platform

Power Options

If freestanding:

  • Manual lift
  • Lifting Lugs for Existing Crane

If attached to platform:

  • EZ-Lift Pully System †
  • Counterbalanced Springs†
  • Hydraulic Cylinders
  • Pneumatic Cylinders
  • Winch System

† Size-dependent

Walk Surface

Stamped
Optional Cleats

Bar Grating
Optional Cleats

End Treads
  • None
  • A-frame
  • L-frame
Vessels

Boat

Barge

Talk to a Safety Expert Now

Say goodbye to the days of costly, inefficient, heavy, and maintenance-prone marine loading arms.

Welcome to the new world where flexibility, lower operating costs, and advanced safety features are at your fingertips. Add to this local support, available spare parts, and the expertise and resources of the industry-leader in safe loading and unloading solutions, and you’ve got a marine loading solution that will serve you and your customers long into the future.

SafeRack’s DockReel system, in collaboration with Techflow Marine, gives operators across all fluid transfer industries the ability to safely and efficiently load and unload their products onto or from barges and tankers. When compared to conventional marine loading arm designs, the DockReel system is 60% lighter and requires significantly less space.

If you want reduced loading times, less demurrage, and a sustainable future increase in volume, the DockReel system is what you’ve been looking for. DockReel features cutting-edge technology and has earned a reputation as a leading tanker unloading system in the offshore oil and gas industry. Techflow Marine has supplied thousands of reels of this type on hundreds of projects. The equipment is often installed in extreme environments subject to some of the world’s toughest safety requirements, so you can be sure that it is the safest and most convenient way to load and unload your products.

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  • Power & Control. Hydraulic, electric, or pneumatically driven.
  • Raised DockReel Platform. Custom design to suit your site application.
  • Wireless Control Unit. Improves operator visibility & safety.
  • Marine Emergency Break-Away Couplings. Weak link dry break couplings between hose sections and at the manifold.
  • Hose Auto-Unwind Feature. Automatically deploys hose if vessel moves away. Up to 1500ft.
  • Suction & Delivery Hoses. Custom made to suit your needs.