Marine Construction News – Page 182
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NewsRoRo Deep Dredge challenges orthodoxy
Netherlands based Damen Dredging Equipment has developed an innovative flexible dredging concept which challenges current technical limitations.
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NewsBack to work for TV star dredger
A dredger which was featured on the ITV detective series Vera whilst laid up by the economic downturn has been restored to functionality by the A&P Tees ship repair yard.
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Artificial island proposed for Turkmenistan
Dutch company Van Oord has proposed construction of an artificial island in the Caspian Sea near the resort of Avaz in Turkmenistan, as its area manager Johannes Hafkenscheid said in an interview with a local newspaper.
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Minor tsunami monitored off UK coast
A network of coastal tidal and wave monitoring stations maintained by EMU Limited recorded the progress of the waves caused by a minor tsunami along the south coast of the UK at the end of June.
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NewsFirst floating jetty for Lake Windermere
The first ever floating jetty project on England’s Lake Windermere has been completed by Falmouth based Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group.
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NewsCapacity expansion at strategic terminal
Hamburg based port and logistics group Buss has processed the first cargo ship at its newly acquired multi-purpose Orange Blue Terminal in the Dutch North Sea deepwater port of Eemshaven.
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NewsCountdown rolls for Germany’s JWP terminal
The final construction countdown has begun at the JadeWeser Port (JWP) container terminal in Wilhelmshaven, now due on stream in a year, but rail link development could be delayed.
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Boskalis acquires € 200m port contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster has won a contract for the construction of a new port terminal TX2 at Superporto do Açu in Brazil.
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Boskalis wins contract for seabed mining deal
Royal Boskalis Westminster in The Netherlands has been selected by Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (CRP) to undertake the detailed design of its offshore rock phosphate nodule project at Chatham Rise.
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ABPMer helps visualise coastal changes
Visualisation work undertaken by ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) in association with Archipelago is being used to engage with local communities and visitors to the Dorset coast about coastal change.
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Grant funded harbour work gets underway
A significant grant from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) is being used towards the regeneration of Southwold Harbour on the coast of Suffolk in the UK.
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Maasvlakte project on schedule
Construction of Maasvlakte 2, the massive expansion of the Port of Rotterdam, is proceeding according to schedule, says the port.
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Van Oord wins infield cable project
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the infield cabling and cable burial of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project 70km off Sylt, Germany.
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Dutch dredge for St Petersburg terminal
Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the new Marine Facade passenger terminal on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg, Russia is now up and running. The new passenger terminal will receive cruise ships and ferries.
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NewsDredging takes Port of Tyne supersize
A major dredging operation is underway at the Port of Tyne UK to deepen the river to accommodate even bigger ships at the Port’s multi-functional berth, Riverside Quay.
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First quay section at Maasvlakte 2 gets wet
In June the first 250m long deep sea quay wall section at the massive Maasvlakte 2 reclamation project in Port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands was dredged free of sand for the first time.
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Broads Authority wins funds for innovative dredging project
The Broads Authority in the UK has been awarded some £800,000 from the European Regional Development Fund to develop innovative dredging solutions for the management of the waterways.
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Mersey tidal power project unlikely to be funded
A tidal power scheme in the Mersey Estuary could deliver enough electricity to meet the average needs of over 200,000 homes but the high construction costs mean that it is unlikely to go ahead without a change in the way we value renewable energy and security of supply.
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NewsCelebration tour for converted motor ship
European clothing chain C&A has marked its 100th birthday by converting a 40 year old inland motor ship into an event and party boat and sending it on a 5,000 km celebration tour of German rivers and canals.
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NewsDHI helps maintain Danish fishing harbour
DHI Group in Denmark recently helped local fisherman at Hvide Sande harbour on Denmark’s western coast whose businesses were threatened by sand bars that were reducing the draught in the harbour.
