Marine Construction News – Page 221
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NewsComprehensive Refit Renews Warlock
Following a year of hard work off Angola, the anchor-handling tug ''Warlock'' returned to Europe earlier this year to work in the North Sea on behalf of Delft based Allseas Engineering BV. Owned by Barry Towage & offshore SA of Madeira, Warlock assisted Allseas'' 125m shallow water pipelay barge ''Tog ...
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NewsVintage Tug Steams for Maintenance
Most people''s image of the bustling concrete and glass jungle that is East London''s Docklands business community is probably the iconic skyline. Pockets of the area''s rich maritime history are, however, still to be found.
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NewsTight Timetable for Newbuild Conversion
A& P Tyne Ltd, part of A& P Group, has recently completed the conversion of a newbuild Offshore Support Vessel into a pipe-laying vessel for Subsea 7. In line with the original schedule, the 130m vessel will shortly depart for Brazil to complete a contract laying flexible pipelines to a ...
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Green Light for New Ferry Facilities
Work to develop facilities at Cairnryan for ferries across the Irish Sea is continuing, with Royal Haskoning taking a leading role in the project. Once complete, the development will reduce the crossing time for Stena Line''s ferries and create improved facilities for P& O''s operation.
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NewsMegan M Emerges from a Clever Conversion
Many multi-purpose work vessels have been described in these pages and all have one thing in common. They are constructed to fulfil the special needs of their operator''s business and each vessel reflects, as near as possible and within sensible financial constraints, the ideal vessel to meet the client''s demands. ...
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NewsDredging Consultancy Luminaries Join Forces
Two of the big names in ports, dredging, and estuarine consultancy have come under one roof this month with the announcement that HR Wallingford has acquired Dredging Research Limited.
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NewsDredging to Improve Access to London
In the latest move to upgrade and invest in the infrastructure the Port of London Authority (PLA) recently awarded a £ 1.5m contract to Dredging International (UK ) for the deepening of the Princess Channel in the outer Thames Estuary, an area with deep channels close to large areas of ...
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NewsSeabed Visualisation Aids Dredging Precision
From its base at Beverley in East Yorkshire UK, SRD Ltd travelled to last month''s Offshore Europe exhibition where it introduced a new multibeam seabed visualisation, measurement and control system which produces live 3D images of the seabed. It is designed for dredging, levelling and excavation applications.
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News'Gambe d'Amfard' Begins Long Haul in Le Havre
owner Dragages Ports. The new 700 m3 grab hopper dredger, built by Damen Shipyards'' Galati yard in Romania, will undertake maintenance duties using either its grab crane or its trailing suction pipe at the port of Le Havre in France.
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NewsDredgers Commended for Mammoth Discovery
The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) has made special commendations for three sites operated by its member companies following their contributions to the advancement of marine archaeology and the understanding of our past.
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IHC Launches 'Abul' for Karachi Port
IHC Holland Merwede has launched the 6,000m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger ''Abul'' for Karachi Port Trust of Pakistan. Commissioning works continue in the Netherlands, with formal delivery scheduled for January 2008.
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NewsProgress for Northern Gateway Container Terminal
A major obstacle to the development of PD Ports'' proposed Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT) at Teesport UK was removed last month when agreement was reached with Hutchison Ports (UK) regarding rail freight network capacity.
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NewsRefurbished Quay Boosts Tyneside Tourism
The iconic Cunard liner ' Queen Elizabeth 2' berthed at the Port of Tyne on the only scheduled UK stopover of its 40th Anniversary voyage last month, thanks to a £ 4 million plus refurbishment of the Tyne Commission Quay by national regeneration agency English Partnerships.
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News: New Dock for River Cart
The UK''s River Cart has been used for commercial traffic for the first time in at least 20 years by Steel Engineering, a tenant at the Westway Industrial and Distribution Park in Renfrew.
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NewsMarine Refuelling Challenge Met on Jersey
When a Jersey based marine engineering company required unusual provision for their refuelling needs, Barnsley UK based Cameron Forecourt was able to provide a successful bespoke solution.
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NewsSeabed Drilling for Chinese Port Upgrade
Qingdao Municipal Government in China is investing some $183m this year to upgrade Qingdao Port, which will have a massive container handling capacity of 12m TEU when 23 new deep water berths are built as a result of integrating Weihai Port.
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NewsPier Works Expand River Transport
Wandsworth Riverside Quarter, next to Wandsworth Park on London''s River Thames, is making an additional £ 100,000 investment in moorings at the new pier which allowed the Putney to Blackfriars river taxi service to start calling there this summer.
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NewsGrowing Interest in Sediment Stability
Glasgow-based marine consultants Partrac Ltd are seeing a continued and rising interest in sediment stability instruments, the Cohesive Strength Meter (CSM).
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NewsBoskalis and partners to build Khalifa Port
Royal Boskalis Westminster has received a letter of intent from Abu Dhabi Ports Company for the first construction phase of the new offshore Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi.
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NewsMajor Order for Van Oord Confirmed
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has secured a number of important contracts in recent weeks.
