Grating's Great Strides in Workboat Safety

01 Sep 2005

The Irish Sea Pioneer is a self propelled jack-up marine construction unit owned and operated by Halliburton inLiverpool Bay UK, providing offshore support services to BHP Billiton . The vessel's raised cargo rail system is essential to operations but was creating a trip hazard to crew working on deck. 

Liverpool Lodges Application for Post-Panamax Box Terminal

01 Sep 2005

The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company has lodged an application for a Harbour Revision Order to allow construction of a new post-Panamax container terminal at the Port of Liverpool, the UK's third largest container port and the country's major gateway for container trade with North America. 

Seabed Investigation into Climate Change

01 Sep 2005

Cornwall UK based Seacore has been awarded a £2.5m contract by the Natural Environmental Research Council on behalf of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling . The company will perform a marine site investigation of the seabed at three offshore locations around the coast of the French Polynesian island of Tahiti in the South Pacific Ocean. 

Mudflats Investigation Brings Relief

01 Sep 2005

Kent County Council in the UK are proposing to build a road bridge across the mudflats of Milton Creek, a tidal waterway to the north of Sittingbourne that connects the town to the Swale and Thames Estuary. The bridge will carry the Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road at a point where the creek is approximately 100m wide and has a tidal range of 0m to 4m. 

GPS Goes to Heart of Europe

01 Sep 2005

Established UK tugs, dredgers, hopper barges and crane barges operator GPS Marine Contractors Ltd , based at Chatham Dock in Kent, is developing the business further and entering the marine contracting and services market in mainland Europe. 

Joint Venture to Develop Rochester Riverside

01 Sep 2005

Medway Council and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) have awarded a civil engineering joint venture between Edmund Nuttall and Van Oord the main ? 44m contract to carry out infrastructure works at the Rochester Riverside regeneration site. 

Enhanced Access to Brunel's Kingdom

01 Sep 2005

The installation of new inner lock gates for the Bristol Port Company in the UK, following the earlier installation of similar outer lock gates, has given the port enhanced flexibility with equipment which is operational through its considerable full tidal range. The innovative gates were designed, constructed, installed, tested and commissioned by Ravestein BV of the Netherlands. 

HRO for EastPort Great Yarmouth

01 Sep 2005

EastPort Great Yarmouth , the £43.5m project to construct a new outer harbour to provide the shortest North Sea crossing from the UK to the Netherlands, has been granted a Harbour Revision Order from the Department for Transport (DfT). The development will incorporate one ro-ro berth (with scope for a second to be added later) together with 360m of deep water general purpose berths and 11 hectares of reclaimed land.