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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

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The project to install a floating wind turbine to connect to the mainland Spanish grid has been boosted with a major Japanese utility joining the project.

1st August 2023

Major Japanese utility joins floating wind demo

1st August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Seawork award winner Frog Environmental is offering a sound protection system for underwater piling works with very healthy side effects.

26th July 2023

Bubbles breathe life into troubled waters

26th July 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Nexans has been awarded a major turnkey contract valued at €1.43 billion to lay the section of the EuroAsia Interconnector that connects Greece and Cyprus.

24th July 2023

Nexans wins historic energy highway cable contract

24th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The Dutch are a step closer to connecting 759MW of offshore wind power to the grid, although this is a mere drop in the ocean when set against future targets.

24th July 2023

140km cables connected at Dutch offshore wind farm

24th July 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Concrete has been poured for construction of a floating facility in British Columbia for HaiSea Marine that will be the base for “the greenest tugboat fleet in the world”.

18th July 2023

HaiSea Marine’s tug base takes shape

18th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Port of Rotterdam has announced construction of a new tug haven as part of its ‘widening Yangtzekanaal’ programme to accommodate expansion of the container terminals at Maasvlakte 2.

18th July 2023

New tug haven for Rotterdam

18th July 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A five-year Dutch research project is investigating the technologies and engineering required to build floating structures big enough to hold entire cities as a way of responding to possible future sea level…

13th July 2023

Project embraces sea level rises with floating cities

13th July 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A recent panel discussion hosted by the IMCA has reiterated calls to standardise contracts and allocate risk more fairly within the offshore wind industry.

7th July 2023

Panel calls for offshore contract standardisation

7th July 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Major marine civil engineering works will be carried out by the consortium made up of Van Oord, Hakkers and De Klerk  to allow even bigger vessels to use Rotterdam

7th July 2023

Rotterdam hires consortium for 500m quay construction

7th July 2023