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• New publication from IADC

  The International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) has published a new publication, Facts About Environmental Monitoring, which is available free of charge online and in print. 15 Jul 2010

• ABPMer focuses on marine planning

  ABP Marine Environmental Research Limited (ABPmer) has launched a new website dedicated to marine planning practice at: www.abpmer.net/marine-planning. 15 Jul 2010

• Council unveils plan to develop Caernarfon Dock

  Gwynedd Council in Wales has unveiled a project to expand Caernarfon’s Victoria Dock, creating berths for 45 vessels. 15 Jul 2010

• Six cutter suction dredgers at work on ADNOC project

  DEME in Belgium says it currently has a total of six cutter suction dredgers working together in Abu Dhabi on the Ruwais site for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). 15 Jul 2010

• EIA for world’s largest windfarm completed

  DHI Group in Denmark says it recently completed the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for what will be the world’s largest wind farm when completed. 15 Jul 2010

• Eredene Capital wins Indian project

  UK based Eredene Capital Plc has won a bid to build and operate the container terminal at Ennore Port in Tamil Nadu in India. The estimated project cost of the Ennore Container Terminal is £207m. 15 Jul 2010

• PD Ports confirms investment in Teesport

  PD Ports has announced that it will channel significant investment into the first phase of expansion plans at Teesport in the UK, which will potentially involve some £29m of total investment. 15 Jul 2010

• Durban Harbour project wins award

  The South African Institution of Civil Engineering at Durban in South Africa has awarded Mott MacDonald of the UK its ‘Most Outstanding Civil Engineering Project Award’ for the widening of the entrance to Durban Harbour. 15 Jul 2010

• DEME/Boskalis joint venture wins work in Mexico

  Belgian dredging company DEME and Dutch dredging company Boskalis have been awarded an important contract in Mexico. 15 Jul 2010

• Walcon completes wind farm facility at Buxton Bight

  Walcon Marine in the UK says work on the new Outer Harbour at Buxton’s Bight at Wells-next-the-Sea on the coast of Norfolk was recently completed. 15 Jul 2010

• Emden plans new deepwater port

  More than 20 years after it gave up on a new port in the Dollart Hafen, the north German port city of Emden is reviving plans for an additional port. 03 Jun 2010

• Complex considerations for Maltese breakwater project

  Malta, explains Nigel West of ABPMer, has an enormous strategic importance for the marine industry, and consequently an equally large maritime built environment. This in itself generates a background complexity for marine structures in the area, and Marsaxlokk fishing village is no exception. 28 May 2010

• Concrete evidence that change is needed

  The use of concrete in maritime engineering – a good practice manual (C674) will be launched on 8 July 2010 in London by the Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA). 27 May 2010

• Belgian Prince visits DEME project in Brazil

  Prince Filip of Belgium recently visited a remediation project being executed by DEME subsidiary DEC during his visit to Brazil on behalf of Flanders Investment & Trade. 27 May 2010

• Construction of Maasvlakte 2 enters new phase

  The Port of Rotterdam says construction of the Maasvlakte 2 project continues to proceed well. 27 May 2010