NSF photo of the barge pier under construction at Gunderson Marine in Portland, OR
NSF photo of the barge pier under construction at Gunderson Marine in Portland, OR The above photo was released by NSF/USAP on their "future USAP" section in early May 2025 on this web page....which seems to be down--here's the archived version. Despite some earlier statements relating to NSF funding cuts, it still appears to be scheduled for delivery to McM in the 2025-26 austral summer season (but not to be ready for use until the following summer).
Below...a significant part of the project at McMurdo...preparing to drill holes for piles that will moor the barge pier.
Positioning one of the templates used for locating the pile
Drilling holes for the mooring anchors.On 15 May 2025 DVIDS issued a press release about the McMurdo barge pier work done by a detachment of Seabees from NMCB)\-3 based in Port Hueneme, CA. The photos immediately attached to this report show the Seabees doing snow clearance at Williams Field. The drilling equipment was procured and the work was monitored by Antarctica New Zealand...some of the work was done by a Navy Seabee detachment from NMCB-3 (more info and photos about the Seabee deployment to Antarctica)--they also spent time working at Pole.
An early mooring diagram for the barge pier. These drawings also depict how the various vessels will be moored.
A plan view of the barge pier. Instead of the mooring depicted at left, the pier will be anchored by 4 struts anchored on shore...the piles for which were being drilled by the Seabees as seen in the above photos. (more info and barge pier drawings). 
One set of the mooring strut anchor piles. I'm not sure when these were installed or by whom.
One of the precast mooring anchor pile caps. The mooring struts will be bolted to these.
A video by Gunderson Marine president Dee Burch describing the barge pier, from the Gunderson Marine website.
Fabricating the barge pier nameplate.The DVIDS photo above was taken by LTJG Karena Garcia (more DVIDS photos here), and here is their privacy/publicity/usage information page. The other images are credited to NSF, mostly from the future.usap page linked above.
