Marine Construction News – Page 196
-
NewsPumping the dock dry for caisson refurbishment
Faced with the requirement to pump 3m litres of water from Liverpool’s Langton Dock in just three hours, with potentially serious and costly consequences if things went wrong, Exsel Pumps decided to rely on variable speed drive systems from Ralspeed to control the pumps it would use for the challenging ...
-
NewsRiver Tees looks to a green future
In order to accommodate the growing number of bigger ships, especially those associated with the new alternative power industries, AV Dawson on the River Tees is developing plans that take advantage of a ‘greener’ future.
-
NewsPiling success boosts pier maintenance project
Worthing Borough Council on the UK south coast is currently performing essential maintenance to the timber framed landing stage that surrounds the end of the West Sussex town’s approximate 150 year old Grade II listed pier.
-
NewsDredgers devise concept to combat Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Deltares, an expertise centre for delta technology in Delft, and Rotterdam''s Van Oord, have come up with an innovative concept to combat the US oil spill.
-
NewsWork starts on new Forth Crossing
Marine investigative work has started in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, on the Forth Replacement Crossing, the proposed structure to replace the existing Forth Road Bridge.
-
NewsOutlook positive for Doolin Pier development
The long awaited Doolin Harbour development looks like starting this summer, since Ireland’s Clare County Council has just closed the tender for the provision of consulting engineering led services associated with the design and build contract.
-
NewsDouble deck linkspan for fast turnaround at Harwich
The UK’s Harwich International Port has completed preparations to receive the new generation of superferries to be introduced by Stena Line. The first vessel, the new ‘Stena Hollandica’, came into service on 16 May, with the ‘Stena Britannica’ to follow later in the season.
-
NewsRotterdam LNG developments proceeding apace
The GATE terminal, the very first Dutch LNG import facility, which is now being constructed on Maasvlakte’s former ‘Papegaaiebek’ location is proceeding rapidly.
-
News‘Oceans of Opportunity’ as European energy grid expands
With offshore windfarm construction now in full swing around Europe’s shores attention is turning to the establishment of a Europe wide interconnector grid to share the benefits of this new green form of energy between EU member states, a number of which are now deeply committed to developing their own ...
-
NewsMustang delivers a line boat for Briggs Marine
Mustang Marine (Wales) Ltd has delivered ‘Thorney Bay’, a newbuild 10m line landing boat, for Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd.
-
NewsAlnmaritec supplies new research boat for University of Plymouth
Alnwick UK based specialised commercial workboat builders Alnmaritec Limited was chosen as the supplier of a new research and survey boat for the University of Plymouth.
-
NewsSafehaven Marine brings its first wind farm support vessel to Seawork
Ireland’s Safehaven Marine has launched ‘Island Tiger’, the first of the company’s new Wildcat 53/16m GRP Wind Farm Catamarans.
-
NewsPartrac in Sediview software agency agreement
Glasgow based marine environmental consultancy Partrac Ltd has agreed a worldwide agency agreement for Sediview software, the V3 of which is a unique and powerful processing tool to generate sediment concentration estimates from Teledyne RDI 1200 and 600 kHz Broadband ADCP instruments.
-
NewsImproved pump dredging unit for small projects
IHC Parts & Services, part of the Netherland’s IHC Merwede group, now offers dredging operators and utility and infrastructure engineering companies all over the world the opportunity to rent its improved TT Pump Dredging Unit.
-
NewsCorrosion protection for wind farm installation ship
Chesterfield UK based hull corrosion protection systems manufacturer Cathelco is supplying an ICCP hull corrosion protection system for a new type of jack-up vessel which can bring fully commissioned topsides to offshore energy sites, handling everything from loading to positioning.
-
NewsCable layer goes to extraordinary lengths
The C/S ‘Nexans Skagerrak’, already one of the world’s most advanced cable ships, has had its capabilities quite literally extended.
-
NewsShark skin boat hulls are on the horizon
The multitudes of organisms that attach themselves to hulls are expensive freeloaders, as the extra drag they create on a vessel’s hull means higher fuel consumption and regular drydocking.
-
News‘Building with Nature’ wins dredging paper award
Stefan Aarninkhof of Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster and his colleagues at EcosShape | Building with Nature, Jan van Dalfsen and Jan Mulder (Deltares) and Daan Rijks (DHV Consultants), won the CEC Best Paper Award for their work entitled ‘Sustainable Development of Nourished Shorelines’.
-
NewsPiling success boosts pier maintenance project
Worthing Borough Council on the UK south coast is currently performing essential maintenance to the timber framed landing stage that surrounds the end of the West Sussex town’s approximate 150 year old Grade II listed pier.
-
NewsJWP construction on target amid dispute over opening
Construction of Germany’s €1bn deepwater JadeWeser Port (JWP) at Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea is on track despite political wrangling over opening dates.
