Wednesday 3 December 08 - 23:49
 

Port, Harbour & Marine Construction

  • Van Oord Completes The World

    Dutch Dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has completed the prestigious land reclamation project The World in the emirate of Dubai. The World is a group of 300 artificial islands 4 km off the coast of Dubai that have been shaped in the form of the continents. 

  • Port of Stralsund Completes €14m Expansion

    The German Baltic seaport of Stralsund has completed a two year, €14 expansion which has created three new berths and a new handling area in the Suedhafen district. 

  • Olympic Games Marine Works Underway

    Poole UK based Jenkins Marine is currently working towards helping Britain achieving it’s Olympic dream. Work is underway in Portland, Dorset, in preparation for the sailing events associated with the Games. 

  • SeaGen Installation Set for Strangford Lough

    New plans to install the word’s first commercial scale tidal energy system in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough were published earlier this month by tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines Ltd. 

  • Modern Bridge Maintains Heritage Style

    Faced with a failing jack-arch bridge over the Birmingham Canal in Smethwick, Sandwell Borough Council and their engineering consultants Jacobs UK Ltd. have opted for a radical solution. 

  • Armourstone Users Meet in Norfolk

    Registration is now open for the 15th annual Armourstone Users Group meeting, which takes place on 12 and 13 March in Norfolk UK. 

  • Cardiff Bay Gets a Coastline

    The Cardiff Bay Barrage is 1.1 km long and extends from Cardiff docks in the north to Penarth in the south. This major civil engineering construction project has created a freshwater lake with over 13 km of waterfront. This £220m project has been the catalyst for the £2bn regeneration of the old docklands of Cardiff and Penarth. 

  • Boskalis to Deepen Entrance Channel at Port of Melbourne

    Royal Boskalis Westminster has confirmed that it has acquired a major contract for deepening the entrance channel to the Port of Melbourne in Australia. The project will be executed in an alliance with the Port of Melbourne Corporation, and the work will take some two years. The value of the contract is approximately €300m.

     

  • Passenger Bridge for Malaga Terminal

    TEAM, which designs and manufactures of boarding bridges for cruise and ferry terminals, has signed a contract with Malaga Cruceros S.A. to deliver a boarding bridge this summer for the cruise terminal ‘Estacion Maritima de Levante’ in the Port of Malaga. The terminal was inaugurated on 23 December 2007. 

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