Marine Construction News – Page 155
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NewsFugro EIA for Aberdeen
Fugro EMU has been appointed to undertake a full Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and prepare an Environmental Statement (ES) in relation to the expansion of Aberdeen Harbour in the UK.
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NewsPort of Gdansk redevelopment
Engineering and development consultancy, Mott MacDonald, has been appointed by Deepwater Container Terminal Gdansk (DCT Gdansk) in Poland to carry out construction work for a new €160m quay.
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NewsNordsee Ost windfarm work
The UK’s FoundOcean has completed grouting operations on the 48th turbine, of RWE Innogy’s 295MW capacity Nordsee Ost Offshore windfarm.
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NewsNew lease of life for the compact Eddie C
The compact workboat/tug Eddie C graced the pages of MJ back in 2004 when it escorted the heavy lift, multi-purpose barge Terra Marique on its voyage up London’s River Thames to Isleworth, where it loaded the British Airways Concorde aircraft en route to its final resting place in Scotland.
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NewsA new flood defence with its own built-in car park
A new and unique flood defence scheme for the seaside resort of Katwijk in The Netherlands is to include the dual features of vital coastal protection and the inclusion of an underground car park.
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NewsCowes breakwater construction set to start
Construction of the new detached breakwater at Cowes is about to commence with the appointment of Dutch maritime services provider Boskalis Westminster to undertake the £7m project.
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News'Ostfriesland' LNG retrofit postponed
Germany’s first dual-fuel LNG car/passenger ferry ''Ostfriesland'' will now not enter service until November, six months later than planned, because its owners want more time for detailed work on the project.
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NewsEU finance to re-vamp Stockholm port
The European Union is committing more than €14m from the TEN-T programme to co-finance a project to re-vamp the infrastructure of the Port of Stockholm to help realise the ‘Nordic Triangle’.
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Fast turn around puts Cats back in Clipper
Finning Power Systems has completed a major overhaul of two Cat engines in one of the vessels in the Thames Clippers’ fleet within its ten day annual shutdown period, ensuring zero downtime was incurred during regular business hours.
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NewsTanker conversions address water scarcity
A research team from DNV-GL has developed a system for converting redundant tankers into waste water recovery vessels.
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NewsCammell Laird lands £47m RFA refit
Birkenhead UK based shipyard and engineering service provider Cammell Laird has begun a £47m refit of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Fort Victoria.
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NewsFunds for youth training in ship restoration
Blyth Tall Ship (BTS) has received initial support from the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an innovative exploration of Blyth’s ship building and Antarctic heritage from the 1800s.
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NewsSelf-propelled CSD launched at Kinderdijk
Netherlands based vessel builder IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the 23,545kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger Al Bahar C/D Huta 12 at the company’s shipyard in Kinderdijk.
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Wave buoys to support dredging operations
AXYS Technologies Inc of Canada is providing Observator Instruments of the Netherlands with four TRIAXYS Currents Directional Wave Buoys, each equipped with the new Next Wave II sensor and a Nortek ADCP current profiler.
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NewsGrooved pipe-joining aids dredger retrofit
When piping systems had to be replaced on the 1983-built trailing suction hopper dredger FRPD 309 , the work needed to be done as quickly as possible.
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NewsDensiTune promises dredger deployment savings
Stema Systems launched the newly developed DensiTune at OI2014 in London last month.
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NewsPiling for Tamar lifeboat station on Mumbles Pier
Seawork exhibitor Opus International Consultants of Fareham UK served as lead designer for a complex project to build a new lifeboat station integrated with the cast iron lattice structure of the existing listed pier.
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NewsRNLI’s latest lifeboat – ready for service
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s latest class of lifeboat is preparing to enter service with arrival of the first £2m Shannon class station lifeboat RNLB The Morrell at Dungeness in Kent UK.
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Dordrecht Island dikes to be reinforced
A joint venture between Van Oord and GMB has been awarded a €21m contract to reinforce the dikes of Dordrecht Island in The Netherlands.
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NewsPortsmouth invests in new mooring system
Portsmouth International Port is currently upgrading the mooring systems on two of its ferry berths, aimed at making the arrival and departure process faster and safer.
