Marine Civils

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Sydney Harbour’s iconic Hornby Lighthouse at South Head is getting a makeover that will ensure it can shine its light well into the future.

18th September 2023

A harbour restoration project with a difference

18th September 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

A submarine link cable to connect southern and northern central areas in Italy to each other will be installed by marine contractor Prysmian.

14th September 2023

Prysmian wins €630 million subsea contract

14th September 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has published new diving guidance in view of the burgeoning amount of subsea power cables being installed with the offshore wind boom.

13th September 2023

IMCA gives commercial diving guidance

13th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Eleven projects have won a share of €35 million to develop projects in tidal stream energy, the UK government has revealed.

11th September 2023

€35m won in bids for UK tidal stream sector

11th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

A third LNG dredger and a second cable-layer been christened in Rotterdam for Van Oord.

8th September 2023

Van Oord christens two vessels

8th September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A substation installed 30km off the German island of Nordeney is the next step to connecting 253MW of offshore wind-generated electricity to the German grid.

7th September 2023

Ørsted moves 2 offshore projects ahead

7th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Offshore wind firm OEG Renewables (OEGR) has bought marine surveying company Geosight to strengthen what it can offer in offshore renewable energy, subsea cables and marine civils, it says.

6th September 2023

OEG Renewables buys marine surveyor

6th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Dutch firm FibreMax has signed an MoU with Entrion, a Texas-based manufacturer of FRP monopile designs, to increase the depths in which offshore monopiles can be installed. 

4th September 2023

MoU pledges to deepen waters for offshore wind

4th September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Prysmian Group has laid the world’s longest interconnector both subsea and on land between the UK and Denmark to power 1.4 million households with clean energy.

4th September 2023

World’s longest subsea interconnector completed

4th September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A €17 million port transformation has begun in Cherbourg as part of a larger project that will ultimately connect southwest France to the British Isles and Spain.

1st September 2023

Major port transformation kicks off in France

1st September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

£29 million (€34 million) flood defences have got under way in the east of England, where in 1953 devastating floods prompted coastal walls to be built.

31st August 2023

€34 million estuary flood defences get under way

31st August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Cable giant Prysmian has been chosen to produce and install the cables for two offshore grid connection systems and an underground cable project in Germany in contracts worth €4.5 billion.

24th August 2023

€4.5 billion cable contracts awarded to Prysmian

24th August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Hamburg Port Authority will begin work on replacing its cruise centre (Hafen City) with a modern new terminal on several floors.

23rd August 2023

WATCH: Hamburg reveals major port revamp

23rd August 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Plans for the Netherlands to store carbon dioxide 3km beneath the North Sea have been rubber stamped by the Council of State, which has ruled the project is ecologically sound.

22nd August 2023

Plans for subsea carbon capture given go-ahead

22nd August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Hydrosphere managing director John Caskey examines why such a promising technology as tidal power is still not popular.

11th August 2023

OPINION: It’s time to turn the tide on tidal energy

11th August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Tunnel elements for the longest immersed tunnel in the world are being cast at the world’s largest concrete element factory in Rødbyhavn, Denmark.

11th August 2023

Tunnel elements cast for Fehmarnbelt link

11th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A floating offshore wind project has reached a significant milestone with the installation of a 2MW floating wind platform demonstrator in open waters.

11th August 2023

Floating wind demo successfully installed

11th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Two North Sea wind farms with a power generation capacity of 900MW each should come online next year.

7th August 2023

Monopile installations begin on German wind farms

7th August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Engineering firm, JBS Group, has won contracts worth £2.6 million for its environmentally friendly Sea Axe cutting technology.

2nd August 2023

Sea Axe cutting tool demand soars

2nd August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A team of specialist divers and marine engineers were brought in to complete vital maintenance work to offshore pipes at a water treatment plant in the north east of England.

1st August 2023

VIDEO: Divers in mine water treatment project

1st August 2023